OpenStax Scraper

Extract free peer-reviewed textbook catalogs, subject listings, adoption data, and resource libraries from OpenStax. Built on spider-browser .

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target
openstax.org: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/openstax.org/

return_format

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

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://openstax.org/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "textbook_title": "string",
    "subject": "string",
    "authors": "string",
    "isbn": "string",
    "publish_date": "string",
    "adoptions_count": "string"
  }
}

# OpenStax Scraper

**Textbook title**: string
**Subject**: string
**Authors**: string
**ISBN**: string
**Publish date**: string
**Adoptions count**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

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

openstax-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://openstax.org/subjects");

const data = await page.extractFields({
  title: ".book-card h3",
  subject: ".book-card .subject-label",
  description: ".book-card .book-description",
  authors: ".book-card .authors",
  adoptions: ".book-card .adoption-count",
  link: ".book-card a",
});

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

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/openstax.org/ \
  -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/openstax.org/",
    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/openstax.org/", {
  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);