Pdflib Scraper
Spider read pdflib.com in 2.2 s without a browser and returned 132 lines of clean markdown, including the section "PDFlib Cookbook".
# PDFlib CookbookOutput an imported PDF page several times, with its Blocks filled with different personalized data.Show Input (businesscard_blocks.pdf)* Output an imported PDF page several times, with its blocks being filled with* different personalized data* Import a PDF page representing a business card template. To create business* cards for various persons, output the page several times with the contained* blocks being filled with personalized data related to the respective person.* Required data: PDF document containing blockspackage com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.blocks;import com.pdflib.PDFlibException;public class business_cardspublic static void main (String argv[])/* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. *//* By default annotations are also imported. In some cases this* requires the Noto fonts for creating annotation appearance streams.* We therefore set the searchpath to also point to the font directory.String fontpath = "../resource/font";String outfile = "business_cards.pdf";String title = "Business Cards";String infile = "businesscard_blocks.pdf";int nblocks = 8; // number of blocks to be filled/* Names of the blocks contained in the imported page */"name", "business_title", "business_address_line1","business_address_city", "business_telephone_voice","business_telephone_fax", "business_email", "business_homepage"int npersons = 3; // number of persons/* Data related to various persons used for personalization */{"Victor Kraxi", "Chief Paper Officer", "17, Aviation Road","7079-4302", "victor@kraxi.com", "www.kraxi.com"},{"Paula Kraxi", "Chief Paper Pilot", "17, Aviation Road","7079-4302", "paula@kraxi.com", "www.kraxi.com"},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 pdflib.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://pdflib.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.pdflib.com", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
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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 pdflib.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000221 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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