Rock Paper Shotgun Scraper

Extract PC gaming news, reviews, guides, and hardware coverage from Rock Paper Shotgun editorial content. Built on spider-browser .

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

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

rock-paper-shotgun-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.rockpapershotgun.com/reviews");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const articles = [];
  document.querySelectorAll(".summary_list_item, article").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector("h2 a, .title a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const author = el.querySelector(".author, .byline a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const date = el.querySelector("time")?.getAttribute("datetime");
    const excerpt = el.querySelector("p.synopsis, .strapline")?.textContent?.trim();
    const link = el.querySelector("h2 a, .title a")?.getAttribute("href");
    if (title) articles.push({ title, author, date, excerpt, link });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: articles.length, articles: articles.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);

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

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Fetch API

One endpoint for rockpapershotgun.com.

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

POST /fetch/rockpapershotgun.com/

Article titleAuthorPublish dateCategoryExcerptTags

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cURL

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

Python

import requests

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

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/rockpapershotgun.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);

Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Article titleAuthorPublish dateCategoryExcerptTagsComment count

Data

Game metadata

Extract prices, reviews, system requirements, and ratings from rockpapershotgun.com.

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Scale

Catalog coverage

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Start

Start scraping rockpapershotgun.com.

Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.

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