NOAA Scraper
Spider read weather.gov in 284 ms without a browser and returned 140 lines of clean markdown.
* Damage/Fatality/Injury StatisticsSorry, the location you searched for was not found. Please try another search.Multiple locations were found. Please select one of the following:# Showers and Storms in the East; Dangerously Hot and Dry in the WestScattered showers and storms are expected across portions of the Central and Eastern U.S. through the end of the week. Meanwhile, dangerous heat will intensify across the Desert Southwest and Intermountain West. Hot, dry weather and increasing winds will allow elevated wildfire conditions to return to the northern Intermountain West, where air quality issues persist from ongoing fires.* Standard Radar (Low Bandwidth)Click on the map above for detailed alertsPublic Alerts in XML/CAP v1.2 and ATOM Formats[Severe Thunderstorm Warning](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Severe Thunderstorm Warning>)[Flash Flood Warning](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Flash Flood Warning>)[Severe Weather Statement](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Severe Weather Statement>)[Flood Warning](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Flood Warning>)[Extreme Heat Warning](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Extreme Heat Warning>)[Severe Thunderstorm Watch](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Severe Thunderstorm Watch>)[Red Flag Warning](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Red Flag Warning>)[Heat Advisory](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Heat Advisory>)[Flood Advisory](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Flood Advisory>)[Small Craft Advisory](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Small Craft Advisory>)[Rip Current Statement](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Rip Current Statement>)The 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 weather.gov.
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://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.7128&lon=-74.0060");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();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://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.7128&lon=-74.0060");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const forecast = [];
document.querySelectorAll("#seven-day-forecast-body .tombstone-container").forEach(el => {
const period = el.querySelector(".period-name")?.textContent?.trim();
const temp = el.querySelector(".temp")?.textContent?.trim();
const desc = el.querySelector(".short-desc")?.textContent?.trim();
const icon = el.querySelector("img")?.getAttribute("alt");
if (period) forecast.push({ period, temp, desc, icon });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: forecast.length, forecast: forecast.slice(0, 14) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();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 weather.gov costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000198 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.
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