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observer.co.uk · HTTP 200

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Spider read observer.co.uk in 163 ms without a browser and returned 373 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "For today", "Time well spent" and "Culture".

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Response observer.co.uk/index.md markdown · 373 lines
News, culture and style | The ObserverEducation ### Classroom wars Education is too important to be a political football, but there is a complacency amongst those defending the status quo. Andy Burnham must seize his chance to reinvent our schools By Rachel SylvesterRussia #### The woman who took on Putin Maria Andreyevna tells Åsne Seierstad how her vocal opposition to the mobilisation of Russian men to fight in Ukraine has led to her losing her job and her freedom Data centres #### Battle of Brick Lane Residents are outraged the government has overruled council objections to approve a new server farm in the heart of London’s Bengali community. It is an early test of the Burnham agenda, Evan Moffitt reports Football #### Time to chill Chelsea are searching for calm and consistency amid another summer spending splurge. Xabi Alonso will have to contend with a bloated squad, George Simms writes### For todayData centres Isabel Coles ###### The opposition to an east London data centre forms part of a global backlash Architecture Rowan Moore ###### How Iran became the frontline of modern architecture Body politic Lily Isaacs ###### Ariana Grande exposes a double standard in a slimming world Film Wendy Ide ###### The Summer Book review – this Tove Jansson adaptation is a masterclass in restraint### Time well spentFurther reading #### From Cicero to Susie Dent Your essential guide from The Observer’s books desk Further watching #### From Possession to Ted Lasso The Observer’s TV critic Barbara Ellen on the best new shows airing and streaming Further listening #### Pop duets that are more than the sums of their parts Our critic picks five tracks that have been embellished thanks to other artists### CultureMusic Kitty Empire ###### Cate Le Bon is a pop star from a parallel world Books Ammar Kalia ###### The life and death of dubstep Theatre Fiona Maddocks ###### Tao of Glass – Philip Glass inspires a theatrical wonder Books Edith Hall ###### Cicero: A Roman tragedy
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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 observer.co.uk.

observer-co-uk-scraper.ts
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://observer.co.uk");

// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser, no selectors

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Fields you can pull.

TitleContentDateSource

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 observer.co.uk costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.002629 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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Run it keyless, no account

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://observer.co.uk/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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