Sciam Scraper
Spider read sciam.com in 158 ms without a browser and returned 280 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Scientific American".
# Scientific AmericanFire, Ice and Totality with Andrea ThompsonHow Antarctica’s Blood Falls came to be](https://sciam.com/article/how-antarcticas-blood-falls-came-to-be/)The bright, red-orange stain on Antarctica’s ice-covered landscape may trace back to ancient oceansAdam KovacAugust 3, 2026EcologyU.S. senators push against giving political appointees control over science funding](https://sciam.com/article/senate-funding-resolution-seeks-to-put-omb-rule-changes-to-research-grants-on-hold/)These proposed changes have seen significant bipartisan pushback and have been criticized by scientists across disciplinesAdam KovacAugust 3, 2026PoliticsYour salad could make you sick. Your protein obsession might not help, either](https://sciam.com/podcast/episode/cyclosporiasis-cases-surge-while-new-research-questions-protein-maxxing/)An outbreak of Cyclospora infections tied to produce spreads across multiple states as new research challenges the protein maxxing craze*Cyclospora* outbreak tied to two deaths as parasite-borne illness continues to rage](https://sciam.com/article/cyclospora-outbreak-tied-to-two-deaths-as-the-parasite-borne-illness-continues-to-rage/)These deaths were reported by Michigan, which has seen more than 11,000 cases of cyclosporiasis emerge since late JuneAdam KovacAugust 3, 2026Public HealthEveryone alive may carry DNA from a ‘ghost lineage’ of human ancestors](https://sciam.com/article/everyone-alive-may-carry-dna-from-a-ghost-lineage-of-human-ancestors/)Scientists analyzing modern genomes may have found a long-lost branch of the human family treeJacek KrywkoJuly 30, 2026EvolutionAvocado flowers switch sex daily—now we know why](https://sciam.com/article/avocado-flowers-switch-sex-daily-now-we-know-why/)New work explains how avocado trees coordinate a complex reproductive strategy, switching every day between male and femaleJeanne TimmonsJuly 29, 2026PlantsSubscription PlansGive a Gift SubscriptionThe 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 sciam.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://sciam.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.sciam.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 sciam.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.00076 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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