Quotes to Scrape Scraper
Spider read quotes.toscrape.com in 335 ms without a browser and returned 85 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Top Ten tags".
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”## Top Ten tagsThe 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 quotes.toscrape.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.quotes.toscrape.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 { 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.quotes.toscrape.com");
const data = await page.extractFields({
author: "div.quote small.author",
tags: "div.quote .tags",
tags_link: "div.col-md-4 .tags-box .tag-item a",
tags_list: "div.col-md-4 .tags-box .tag-item",
tags_text: "div.col-md-4 .tags-box .tag-item span",
text: "div.quote span.text",
});
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 quotes.toscrape.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000029 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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