Popularmechanics Scraper
Spider read popularmechanics.com in 190 ms without a browser and returned 334 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Batman Makes You Nicer. Science Just Proved It", "Sloth Bones Could Rewrite South American History" and "Two ‘Ghost Species’ Lurk in Human DNA".
### A Cowhand Spotted Mysterious Glowing Orbs Nearly 150 Years Ago. Scientists May Have Found the Source.These otherworldly orbs of light in the Chihuahuan Desert have perplexed locals for more than a century, but modern science has a more mundane explanation.### Batman Makes You Nicer. Science Just Proved It.A social experiment found that people acted more chivalrous when someone dressed as the Caped Crusader was nearby.### Strange Holes in Ancient Sloth Bones May Rewrite Human History### Sloth Bones Could Rewrite South American HistoryThe objects suggest that humans entered South America thousands of years earlier than previously thought.### Scientists Found DNA from Not One, but Two ‘Ghost Species’ Hiding in Our Genetic Code### Two ‘Ghost Species’ Lurk in Human DNAWe are what we are because of ancient and mysterious genetics.By Elizabeth Rayne5 hours ago## What’s New### The 8 Best Trail Cameras of 2026### The 8 Best Patio Umbrellas### Your Dog’s Brain May Be in Sync With Your OwnBy Stav Dimitropoulos20 hours ago### The 6 Best Metal Detectors of 2026By Steven T. Wright22 hours ago## The Astounding Pop Mech Show### Does Avi Loeb Know Something the Rest of Us Don't?On the latest episode of “The Astounding Pop Mech Show,” Andrew Daniels, Shawn Gorman, and John Gilpatrick discuss the head of the White House’s new UFO Council.By PopMech EditorsAug 6, 2026## Science News### This “Jumping Gene” Traveled Between Species### Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth in 4 Years### An Atomic Bomb Forged an Impossible MetalBy Elizabeth RayneAug 6, 2026### Recycled Oyster Shells Are Restoring Reefs### A SpaceX Rocket Piece Just Crashed Into the Moon### Some UAPs are Non-Human Craft, Research SuggestsBy Kevin Knuth, as told to Ashley StimpsonAug 1, 2026The 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 popularmechanics.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://popularmechanics.com");
// 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.popularmechanics.com", {
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 popularmechanics.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.001328 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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- Balance never expires
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