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rte.ie · HTTP 200

RTÉ News Scraper

Spider read rte.ie in 114 ms without a browser and returned 757 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Budget to focus on cost of living - Martin Budget 2027", "Meta ordered to pay $567m in US child safety ruling World" and "Top Stories".

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Response rte.ie/index.md markdown · 757 lines
### In pictures: Mourners gather to honour Brenda Fricker Ireland### Family launch legal action over Irish woman's death in NY Ireland### Taoiseach defends Government jet amid navigation concern Politics### Budget to focus on cost of living - Martin Budget 2027### Meta ordered to pay $567m in US child safety ruling World## Top Stories### Shels' European dream still alive despite Ajax defeat Soccer A Daniel Kelly consolation goal at the Johan Cruyff Arena means Shelbourne will face Ajax in next week's UEFA Conference League third qualifying round, second leg with something to play for after the Dubliners came away with a respectable result from Amsterdam.### Dublin woman wins 'Best Dressed' at the Dublin Horse Show 2026 Fashion### Bohs up against it after Tallaght loss to Midtjylland Soccer### Minnie Driver 'in shock' after 'really bad car accident' Movies## Featured Video##### Children’s drawings remember ‘Pigeon Lady’ Brenda Fricker at her funeral;)##### Smoke from fire at car scrapyard visible across Dublin;)##### First Dates Couple Welcome Baby Girl;)##### Fricker’s friend tells funeral she wanted ‘smiles and laughter’;)##### ‘Everybody loved her’ - Fricker remembered in The Liberties;)##### 'Absolutely reckless' to reimpose excise cuts, says fuel body;)##### Storm-felled Irish oak crafted into rare whiskey casks;)##### How much does it cost to go to college in Ireland?;)##### Multiple fires in Kyiv following Russian missile attack;)##### Shocking Discovery On Leased-Out Property;)##### Stars sing ‘Forever Young’ as Hansard funeral ends;)##### Glen Hansard's wife thanks Gardaí at funeral;)##### Mourners gather for funeral of musician Glen Hansard;)##### Musical tribute to Glen Hansard in Dublin city centre;)##### First tiger released in Kazakhstan to restore population;)##### Ukrainian drone kills seven at beach resort, says Russia;)
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The 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 rte.ie.

rte-ie-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.rte.ie");

// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser, no selectors

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Fields you can pull.

FooterNav

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 rte.ie costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000553 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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Run it keyless, no account

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://rte.ie/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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