Sacred-texts Scraper
Spider read sacred-texts.com in 273 ms without a browser and returned 83 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Thank you".
Dear Readers of ISTA, our newer site is temporarily down, thanks for browsing and for your support in the meantime! —ISTA StaffWith the **ISTA FLASH-DRIVE 9.0** you hold the world's wisdom in the palm of your hand - the most comprehensive collection of books on religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric ever assembled...an incredible value with over 1700 books. Buy it here.W**elcome to the largest freely available archive** of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. The site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship, and has the largest readership of any similar site on the web.We need you to keep this site online. Help *TODAY* to ensure that these books are preserved by purchasing the new ISTA FLASH DRIVE 9.0 **here**...Search Sacred-texts](search.htm)|The Book of Shadows](bos/index.htm)|[Native American](nam/index.htm)|[#### Thank you!The Teachings of Zoroaster](zor/toz/index.htm)The Splendour of God](bhi/sog/index.htm)The Kebra Nagast](afr/kn/index.htm)The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq](isl/taa/index.htm)**This is a quiet place in cyberspacedevoted to religious tolerance and scholarship**Non-public domain contents of this site*Open Source for the Human Soul*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 sacred-texts.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://sacred-texts.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 { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const spider = new Spider({ apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY! });
const result = await spider.scrapeUrl("https://www.sacred-texts.com", {
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 sacred-texts.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.00005 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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