Overcast Scraper
Spider read overcast.fm in 114 ms without a browser and returned 25 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Overcast®", "Smart Speed®" and "Voice Boost®".
# Overcast®Free, simple, award-winning podcast player for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.## Smart Speed®Pick up extra speed without distortion with Smart Speed, which dynamically shortens silences in talk shows.Conversations still sound so natural that you’ll forget it’s on — until you see how much extra time you’ve saved.## Voice Boost®Boost and normalize volume so every show is loud, clear, and at the same volume.Listen in more places, such as noisy cars, and still hear what everyone says without cranking the volume so high for quiet people that the loud ones blow your ears out.## A Normal BusinessHi, I’m Marco (👋). It’s just me here — no big company or investors.Overcast is a self-funded app that has sustainably succeeded on its merits andrespected your privacy for the last## FreeMost features are free, supported by small visual ads to promote podcasts.An annual subscription offers bonus features and can optionally hide the ads.Download now and see if it’s right for you.## Info for PodcastersOvercast works with the open, standard world of podcasts with public RSS feeds.Simply add your podcast to Apple Podcasts and it’ll show up here.It’s not a separate platform, and all downloads go directly to your servers.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 overcast.fm.
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://overcast.fm");
// 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.overcast.fm", {
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 overcast.fm costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000279 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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Start scraping overcast.fm.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.