Oed Scraper
Spider read oed.com in 125 ms without a browser and returned 75 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Oxford English Dictionary", "The historical English dictionary" and "Understanding entries".
# Oxford English Dictionary## The historical English dictionaryAn unsurpassed guide for researchers in any discipline to the meaning, history, and usage of over 500,000 words and phrases across the English-speaking world.## Understanding entriesGlossaries, abbreviations, pronunciation guides, frequency, symbols, and more## Historical ThesaurusExplore different words used for the same concept or meaning over time## Personal accountChange display settings, save searches and purchase subscriptions## Recently added## Word of the dayTo read (a book or other text, esp. fiction by a particular author or of a particular genre) for intensive or extended periods.## Recently updated</img> ## Word stories Read our collection of word stories detailing the etymology and semantic development of a wide range of words, including ‘dungarees’, ‘codswallop’, and ‘witch’.</img> ## Word lists Access our word lists and commentaries on an array of fascinating topics, from film-based coinages to Tex-Mex terms.</img> ## World Englishes Explore our World Englishes hub and access our resources on the varieties of English spoken throughout the world by people of diverse cultural backgrounds.</img> ## History of English Here you can find a series of commentaries on the History of English, charting the history of the English language from Old English to the present day.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 oed.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://oed.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.oed.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 oed.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000054 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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