Politico Scraper
Spider read politico.com in 197 ms without a browser and returned 638 lines of clean markdown.
Can the GOP ‘defy history’ in the midterms? (with Speaker Mike Johnson)The stories behind the power.## **** **NEWSLETTERS**The unofficial guide to official Washington, every morning and weekday afternoons.* All fields must be completed to subscribe.### Trump’s Efforts to Sway Foreign Elections Are Missing Something The president is being all-too-brazen. By Nahal Toosi### Pete Buttigieg’s Case Against ‘Return to Normal’ He’s trying to convince voters that neither he nor his party can afford to look backward. By Jonathan Martin### This Senator Has a Very Midwestern Plan to Save the Democrats The Michigan senator says her party has a lot to learn about Midwestern nice. By Adam Wren### Anger Over Data Centers Is Fueling a New Political Movement Justin Pearson, a Tennessee lawmaker, has become one of the loudest voices amid a growing national backlash against the pollution and politics of America’s AI buildout. By Ariel Wittenberg### GOP Staffers Say the Party Has a Groyper Problem Party veterans are concerned that the pipeline of young Republican talent is veering off course — and into terminally online extremism. By Kathy Gilsinan### ‘It Wasn’t Part of Trump’s Plans’: Venezuela’s Feeble Earthquake Response Undermining US Credibility Bodies remain in the rubble four weeks later as residents dig by hand for relatives. By Eva Hartog### Brendan Carr Speaks Out on Jimmy Kimmel, the Media and Trump In a new interview, Trump’s FCC chair defends his controversial strategy. By Dasha Burns### Why Trump Is Afraid of International Law The administration worries “woke” institutions will go after its officials for alleged human rights abuses. By Nahal Toosi### Rahm Emanuel on Why Democrats Keep Losing The former Chicago mayor makes his case for his party’s future. By Jonathan MartinThe 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 politico.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://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/10/congress-spending-deal");
// 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!,
stealth: 2,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/10/congress-spending-deal");
const data = await page.extractFields({
headline: "h1, .headline",
author: ".story-meta__authors a",
date: "time[datetime]",
dek: ".dek, .story-meta__dek",
body: ".story-text, .article__content",
image: { selector: ".fig-graphic img, figure img", attribute: "src" },
});
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 politico.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000554 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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