New York Times Scraper

Extract breaking news articles, opinion pieces, and investigative reports from The New York Times with paywall bypass. Built on spider-browser .

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target
nytimes.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/nytimes.com/

return_format

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/nytimes.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://nytimes.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "headline": "string",
    "author": "string",
    "published_date": "string",
    "section": "string",
    "article_body": "string",
    "summary": "string",
    "image_url": "string",
    "tags": "string"
  }
}

# New York Times Scraper

**Headline**: string
**Author**: string
**Published date**: string
**Section**: string
**Article body**: string
**Summary**: string
**Image URL**: string
**Tags**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from nytimes.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

nytimes-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
  captcha: "solve",
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/15/technology/ai-regulation.html");

const data = await page.extractFields({
  headline: "h1[data-testid='headline']",
  author: "[class*='byline'] a",
  date: "time",
  summary: "p#article-summary",
  body: "section[name='articleBody']",
  image: { selector: "figure img", attribute: "src" },
});

console.log(data);
await spider.close();

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/nytimes.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/nytimes.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/nytimes.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);