Scientificamerican Scraper
Spider read scientificamerican.com in 415 ms without a browser and returned 336 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Scientific American".
# Scientific AmericanAdam KovacAugust 3, 2026EcologyU.S. senators push against giving political appointees control over science funding](https://scientificamerican.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, 2026PoliticsYouTube inventor Simone Giertz turned robot comedy into a science career. Here’s how](https://scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/youtube-star-simone-giertz-has-some-life-and-science-lessons-to-share-with-you/)The Swedish engineer influencer has spent over a decade on YouTube growing a loyal audience of over 2.5 million followers, but for her, the journey was all about living a less typical life in science.*Cyclospora* outbreak tied to two deaths as parasite-borne illness continues to rage](https://scientificamerican.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://scientificamerican.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, 2026EvolutionYour salad could make you sick. Your protein obsession might not help, either](https://scientificamerican.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 crazeThe 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 scientificamerican.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://scientificamerican.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.scientificamerican.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 scientificamerican.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000806 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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