PLOS ONE Scraper
Extract open-access research articles, author data, citation metrics, and subject area tags from PLOS ONE journal.
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://journals.plos.org/", "return_format": "markdown"}'This exact call produced the response beside it. Get a key →
- Content
- 76 lines 14.3 KB markdown
- Render
- No browser plain request is enough
- Fetch time
- 151 ms one measured fetch
- This fetch cost
- $0.000463 bandwidth plus compute
# **Research journals**
*PLOS Computational Biology* provides a home for research of exceptional significance that uses computational methods and AI to further our understanding of living systems from molecular to ecosystem scales. We strengthen the accessibility and reusability of your work to empower biologists everywhere.
### PLOS Genetics
*PLOS Genetics *publishes research related to genetics and genomics across the full breadth of this field, from microbes to humans and from basic science to translational approaches. We welcome cross-disciplinary research that provides new insights and substantially advances our understanding of biological principles and processes. We act as a forum for practicing scientists by publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed research, reviews and opinion articles.
### PLOS One
*PLOS One* accepts research in over two hundred subject areas across science, engineering, medicine, and the related social sciences and humanities. We evaluate research on the basis of scientific validity, strong methodology, and high ethical standards, selecting for research that contributes to academic knowledge. We encourage inter-and multidisciplinary studies, and accept a range of submissions from primary research to protocols and systematic reviews, including research with negative or null results.
### PLOS Pathogens
*PLOS Pathogens* publishes ground-breaking research on pathogen biology and host-pathogen interactions across all life forms. From fundamental discovery through to translational, applied and clinical research we uphold the highest standards of quality, ethics, integrity, and editorial judgment through fair and transparent peer review. Our rigorous selection process ensures that only impactful and high-quality research is published. We are committed to advancing open science and a diverse and inclusive culture that represents our global community and engages with international experts as authors, editors, and reviewers from across the world.You just saw the output.
That was one page. A key runs the same call across every URL on journals.plos.org, with browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Sign up and a free balance lands on your account. No card required to test.
- Free balance on signup, no card
- Failed requests cost $0
- robots.txt respected by default
The same call, in code.
The keyless call above returns markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on journals.plos.org.
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");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();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 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 journals.plos.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000463 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.
- Free balance on signup
- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
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