Serious Eats Scraper
Spider read seriouseats.com in 175 ms without a browser and returned 232 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "The Latest", "Food Science" and "Equipment".
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The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on seriouseats.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.seriouseats.com/the-best-slow-cooked-italian-american-tomato-sauce-red-sauce-recipe");
// 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!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.seriouseats.com/the-best-slow-cooked-italian-american-tomato-sauce-red-sauce-recipe");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const recipe = {
title: document.querySelector("h1.heading__title")?.textContent?.trim(),
author: document.querySelector("[rel='author'], a[href*='/cook/'], [itemprop='author']")?.textContent?.trim(),
rating: document.querySelector("[aria-label*='star'], [data-testid*='rating'], [class*='rating'] span")?.textContent?.trim(),
totalTime: document.querySelector("[itemprop='totalTime'], [class*='time'] [class*='value']")?.textContent?.trim(),
ingredients: [],
};
document.querySelectorAll("[itemprop='recipeIngredient'], li[class*='ingredient']").forEach(el => {
recipe.ingredients.push(el.textContent?.trim());
});
return JSON.stringify(recipe);
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(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 seriouseats.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000668 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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