Picsum Scraper

Extract photos, camera data, and visual content from Picsum. Built on spider-browser .

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target
picsum.photos: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

picsum-photos-scraper.ts

import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";

const spider = new Spider({ apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY! });

const result = await spider.scrapeUrl("https://www.picsum.photos", {
  return_format: "markdown",
});

console.log(result);

ready to run · spider-browser · TypeScript

Fetch API

One endpoint for picsum.photos.

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

POST /fetch/picsum.photos/

TitlePhotographerCameraResolutionTagsLicense

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cURL

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/picsum.photos/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/picsum.photos/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/picsum.photos/", {
  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);

Extraction