Philly Scraper
Spider read philly.com in 260 ms without a browser and returned 454 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "The best antique and thrift stores to explore down the Shore" and "Know your news? Test your skills with our News Quiz".
IUPAT appointed a special trustee to “take charge and control” of District Council 21, ousting business manager Bernie Snyder from his leadership position.#### Your indispensable guide to the most vital places to dine in the Philly areaIn our annual guide to the Philly dining scene, 40 new restaurants nab spots.The 76 scouts’ favorite spots that didn’t make the list#### The best antique and thrift stores to explore down the Shore#### Know your news? Test your skills with our News Quiz.#### A 19th-century doctor and Philadelphia socialite wanted to build a zoo in his city. Even the Civil War couldn’t stop him.#### National Gallery studied whether Freedom 250 IndyCar vibrations will affect art#### Film attendance has been diminishing, but not at BlackStar. 15 years on, it’s bigger than ever.Maori Karmael Holmes and Nehad Khader, For The Inquirer#### A sweeping audit of the Philadelphia School District’s management and operations is coming, at City Council President Kenyatta Johnson’s requestCity Controller Christy Brady will conduct the audit, examining not just the district's finances, but also management and operations. She'll look into administrative and consultant costs.#### The rules for Philly’s school selection process are changing again — here’s howStudents from six Philadelphia zip codes - some of which are new - will get preference for certain magnet schools.#### For months, Cheltenham football families ‘pleaded’ with administrators not to hire the coach charged in hazing scandalCheltenham parents said they knew of allegations that Terence Tolbert allowed a culture of bullying at Abington before Cheltenham hired him as head coach, but district officials didn't listen to them.#### Group demands N.J. yank school guidance on transgender studentsThe 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 philly.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://philly.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.philly.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 philly.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.005449 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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- Balance never expires
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Start scraping philly.com.
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.