PC Gamer Scraper
Spider read pcgamer.com in 1.3 s without a browser and returned 2,271 lines of clean markdown.
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The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on pcgamer.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://www.pcgamer.com/games/reviews/");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();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://www.pcgamer.com/games/reviews/");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const articles = [];
document.querySelectorAll(".listingResult").forEach(el => {
const title = el.querySelector(".article-name")?.textContent?.trim();
const date = el.querySelector(".date")?.textContent?.trim();
const link = el.querySelector("a")?.href;
const excerpt = el.querySelector(".synopsis")?.textContent?.trim();
if (title) articles.push({ title, date, link, excerpt });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: articles.length, articles: articles.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();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 pcgamer.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.002761 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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