Mturk Scraper
Spider read mturk.com in 120 ms without a browser and returned 148 lines of clean markdown.
⚠️ Amazon Mechanical Turk is no longer accepting new customers. We recommend existing customers migrate to a third-party solution. More information is available here.Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcingmarketplace that makes it easier for individuals andbusinesses to outsource their processes and jobs to adistributed workforce who can perform these tasksvirtually. This could include anything from conductingsimple data validation and research to more subjectivetasks like survey participation, content moderation, andmore. MTurk enables companies to harness the collectiveintelligence, skills, and insights from a global workforceto streamline business processes, augment data collectionand analysis, and accelerate machine learning development.While technology continues to improve, there are stillmany things that human beings can do much more effectivelythan computers, such as moderating content, performingdata deduplication, or research. Traditionally, tasks likethis have been accomplished by hiring a large temporaryworkforce, which is time consuming, expensive anddifficult to scale, or have gone undone. Crowdsourcing isa good way to break down a manual, time-consuming projectinto smaller, more manageable tasks to be completed bydistributed workers over the Internet (also known asMTurk is well-suited to take on simple and repetitivetasks in your workflows which need to be handledmanually. Using MTurk to outsource microtasks ensuresthat work gets done quickly, while freeing up time andresources for the company – so internal staff can focusScaling up and down a workforce isn’t the easiestundertaking. With access to a global, on-demand, 24x7workforce, MTurk enables businesses and organizations toget work done easily and quickly when they need it –without the difficulty associated with dynamicallyThe same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on mturk.com.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://mturk.com");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const spider = new Spider({ apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY! });
const result = await spider.scrapeUrl("https://www.mturk.com", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(result);Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What mturk.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000058 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
- Free balance on signup
- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
Run it keyless, no account
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Start scraping mturk.com.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.