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Photography & Design
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Shutterstock Scraper

Extract stock image metadata, contributor profiles, licensing info, and keyword tags from Shutterstock library. Built on spider-browser .

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target
shutterstock.com
success rate
99.9%
latency
~4ms
POST /fetch/shutterstock.com/
return_format
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/shutterstock.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'
200 OK · cache hit · response shape
{
  "url": "https://shutterstock.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "image_title": "string",
    "contributor": "string",
    "image_id": "string",
    "keywords": "string",
    "license_type": "string",
    "price": "string",
    "resolution": "string",
    "category": "string"
  }
}
Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from shutterstock.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

shutterstock-scraper.ts
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.shutterstock.com/search/technology");
await page.content(10000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const images = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("[data-automation='AssetGrids_GridItemContainer']").forEach(el => {
    const img = el.querySelector("img");
    const src = img?.getAttribute("src");
    const alt = img?.getAttribute("alt");
    const id = el.getAttribute("data-asset-id");
    if (src) images.push({ src, alt, id });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: images.length, images: images.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser · TypeScript
Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Image titleContributorImage IDKeywordsLicense typePriceResolutionCategory
Content

Asset metadata

Extract image metadata, tags, and license info from shutterstock.com.

Rendering

Gallery handling

Handle masonry grids, lightboxes, and lazy-loaded image galleries.

Scale

Collection scraping

Process entire collections and portfolios with automatic pagination.

Related

More Photography & Design scrapers.

Start

Start scraping shutterstock.com.

Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.