Science & Research

PLOS ONE Scraper

Extract open-access research articles, author data, citation metrics, and subject area tags from PLOS ONE journal. Powered by spider-browser .

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journals.plos.org target

99.5% success rate

~4ms latency

Quick Start

Extract data in minutes

plos-one-scraper.ts

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://journals.plos.org/plosone/search?q=microbiome");
await page.content(10000);

const data = await page.extractFields({
  title: ".search-results-title a",
  authors: ".search-results-authors",
  date: ".search-results-date",
  snippet: ".search-results-snippet",
  views: ".search-results-metrics .views",
  citations: ".search-results-metrics .citations",
});

console.log(data);
await spider.close();

✓ ready to run | spider-browser | TypeScript

Fetch API

Structured data endpoint

Extract structured JSON from journals.plos.org with a single POST request. AI-configured selectors, cached for fast repeat calls.

POST /fetch/journals.plos.org/

Article titleAuthorsAbstractSubject areasDOIPublished date

Try it Fetch API Docs

curl

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/journals.plos.org/ \
  -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/journals.plos.org/",
    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/journals.plos.org/", {
  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);

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