Picsum Scraper
Spider read picsum.photos in 332 ms without a browser and returned 100 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Easy to use, stylish placeholders", "Grayscale" and "Blur".
## Easy to use, stylish placeholders## GrayscaleGet a grayscale image by appending `?grayscale` to the end of the url.`https://picsum.photos/200/300?grayscale`## BlurGet a blurred image by appending `?blur` to the end of the url.`https://picsum.photos/200/300/?blur`You can adjust the amount of blur by providing a number between `1` and `10`.`https://picsum.photos/200/300/?blur=2`## Advanced UsageYou may combine any of the options above.For example, to get a specific image that is grayscale and blurred.`https://picsum.photos/id/870/200/300?grayscale&blur=2`To request multiple images of the same size in your browser, add the `random` query param to prevent the images from being cached:If you need a file ending, you can add `.jpg` to the end of the url.`https://picsum.photos/200/300.jpg`To get an image in the WebP format, you can add `.webp` to the end of the url.`https://picsum.photos/200/300.webp`## List ImagesGet a list of images by using the `/v2/list` endpoint.The API will return 30 items per page by default.To request another page, use the `?page` parameter.To change the amount of items per page, use the `?limit` parameter.`https://picsum.photos/v2/list?page=2&limit=100`The `Link` header includes pagination information about the next/previous pages"author": "Alejandro Escamilla","download_url": "https://picsum.photos/..."## Image DetailsGet information about a specific image by using the `/id/{id}/info` and `/seed/{seed}/info` endpoints.`https://picsum.photos/id/0/infohttps://picsum.photos/seed/picsum/info`You can find out the ID of an image by looking at the `Picsum-ID` header, or the `User Comment` field in the EXIF metadata.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 picsum.photos.
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://picsum.photos");
// 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.picsum.photos", {
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 picsum.photos costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000036 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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