Postfix Scraper
Spider read postfix.org in 165 ms without a browser and returned 24 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "The Postfix Home Page" and "About this website".
# The Postfix Home Page*> All programmers are optimistsFirst of all, thank you for your interest in the Postfix project.What is Postfix? It is Wietse Venema's mailserver that started life at [IBMresearch](https://www.research.ibm.com) as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. After eightyears at Google, *Wietse continues to maintain Postfix*.Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure.The outside has a definite Sendmail-ish flavor, but the inside is## About this websiteThis website has information about the Postfix source codedistribution. Built from source code, Postfix can run on UNIX-likesystems including AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, MacOS X, Solaris, andPostfix is also distributed as ready-to-run code by operatingsystem vendors, appliance vendors, and other providers. Theirversions may have small differences with the software that isThe 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 postfix.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://postfix.org");
// 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.postfix.org", {
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 postfix.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000021 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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You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.