ProgrammableWeb Scraper

Extract API directory listings, SDK references, mashup examples, and developer news from ProgrammableWeb. Built on spider-browser .

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target
programmableweb.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/programmableweb.com/

return_format

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/programmableweb.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://programmableweb.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "api_name": "string",
    "category": "string",
    "protocol": "string",
    "data_format": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "provider": "string",
    "added_date": "string",
    "followers": "string"
  }
}

# ProgrammableWeb Scraper

**API name**: string
**Category**: string
**Protocol**: string
**Data format**: string
**Description**: string
**Provider**: string
**Added date**: string
**Followers**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from programmableweb.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

programmableweb-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://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory");

const data = await page.extractFields({
  name: ".views-row .views-field-title a",
  category: ".views-row .views-field-field-api-category",
  protocol: ".views-row .views-field-field-api-protocol",
  description: ".views-row .views-field-search-api-excerpt",
  provider: ".views-row .views-field-field-api-provider",
  added: ".views-row .views-field-created",
});

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

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/programmableweb.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/programmableweb.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/programmableweb.com/", {
  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);