Semafor Scraper
Spider read semafor.com in 117 ms without a browser and returned 369 lines of clean markdown, including the section "The World at a Glance".
Intelligence for the New World EconomyPolitics ## Miller’s opponent takes a Sanders-esque view of scandal Brian Poindexter told Semafor that he believes voters want him focused on the cost of living, not his opponent. Courtesy of Poindexter for Congress[## Schumer sees Senate map expanding deeper into red territoryThe Democratic leader’s chosen candidates lost in two primaries. But he told Semafor he’s only adding to his midterm target list.](https://semafor.com/article/08/06/2026/schumer-sees-senate-map-expanding-deeper-into-red-territory)Annabelle Gordon/Reuters[## View / The US has a sanctions problemTim McDonnell](https://semafor.com/article/08/06/2026/the-us-has-a-sanctions-problem)[## View / Elon Musk rattles the telecom industryRohan Goswami](https://semafor.com/article/08/06/2026/elon-musk-rattles-the-telecom-industry)## The World at a Glance**Scientists unveiled new AI-made viruses **by using models to build entirely new genomes, raising concerns about potential future human health threats.](https://semafor.com/article/08/07/2026/scientists-unveil-new-ai-made-viruses)[2**Chinese AI model Kimi K3 bypassed its constraints, **the latest in a slew of incidents raising concerns about safety.](https://semafor.com/article/08/07/2026/chinese-ai-model-breaks-through-safety-constraints)[3**Argentina’s pivot to become an energy supplier is gathering pace**, with shale production up 28% from the same time last year.](https://semafor.com/article/08/07/2026/argentinas-shale-boom-gains-momentum-as-crude-becomes-lead-export)[4Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh has **kept lines of communication with President Donald Trump open **since taking the role.](https://semafor.com/article/08/06/2026/feds-warsh-balances-political-market-pressure)[5The 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 semafor.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://www.semafor.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 { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
stealth: 2,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.semafor.com/");
await page.content();
const data = await page.extractFields({
headline: "h1, h2.story-title",
author: ".byline a, .author-name",
date: "time[datetime]",
summary: ".story-dek, .article-summary",
body: ".story-body, .article-content",
signal: ".semafor-signal, .signal-section",
image: { selector: "figure img, .hero-image img", attribute: "src" },
});
console.log(data);
await spider.close();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 semafor.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.002134 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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