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sciencealert.com · HTTP 200

Sciencealert Scraper

Spider read sciencealert.com in 148 ms without a browser and returned 96 lines of clean markdown.

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Response sciencealert.com/index.md markdown · 96 lines
As Ice Melts, Antarctica Is Leaking Mercury Into The OceanMassive Study of 10 Million Siblings Links Birth Order To Risk of ADHD, Autism](https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-are-starting-to-understand-the-largest-biomechanical-event-on-earth-whales-hunting-for-food-on-a-single-breath)Blue Whales Shouldn't Be Able to Hunt The Way They Do. Scientists Have Finally Discovered How They Pull It Off](https://www.sciencealert.com/ghosts-of-your-memories-may-linger-in-your-brain-even-when-you-think-theyre-forgotten)Ghosts of 'Forgotten' Memories May Linger in The Brain, Study Suggests – And Could Even Be Restored](https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-mapped-the-invisible-rivers-flowing-through-the-sky-above-south-america)An Entire Continent Runs on Rivers You Can't See. Scientists Just Mapped Them](https://www.sciencealert.com/gut-fungi-from-a-common-pest-can-chew-holes-in-styrofoam)Gut Fungi From a Common Pest Can Chew Holes in Styrofoam](https://www.sciencealert.com/historys-barbarians-were-far-more-sophisticated-than-we-give-them-credit-for)'Barbarians' Have Been Misunderstood For Centuries, Researchers Explain](https://www.sciencealert.com/strange-dna-structures-found-in-the-human-genome-go-beyond-the-double-helix)Your DNA Isn't Just a Double Helix. Scientists Just Found What Else It's Hiding](https://www.sciencealert.com/your-gums-may-be-quietly-hinting-at-a-future-health-risk)Bleeding Gums Might Be an Early Sign of Something Much Bigger](https://www.sciencealert.com/exceeded-our-expectations-one-antioxidant-could-be-key-to-keeping-aging-muscles-strong)'Exceeded Our Expectations': One Antioxidant Could Be Key to Keeping Aging Muscles Strong](https://www.sciencealert.com/a-key-meat-protein-has-been-grown-in-lettuce-for-the-first-time)A Key Meat Protein Has Been Grown in Lettuce For The First Time
Code · Fields · Cost · Run it keyless, no account

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 sciencealert.com.

sciencealert-com-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://sciencealert.com");

// 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.

TitleAuthorsAbstractJournalDateDOI

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 sciencealert.com costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000313 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://sciencealert.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.