Simonwillison Scraper
Spider read simonwillison.net in 817 ms without a browser and returned 621 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Simon Willison’s Weblog".
# Simon Willison’s Weblog**Simon Willison on Technical Blogging**.I was interviewed by Cynthia Dunlop for her "Write that blog!" series back in January, but I just realized I never linked to the interview from my own blog!It includes my answers to the following questions:* Why did you start blogging – and why do you continue?* What has been the most surprising impact of blogging for you?* What blog post are you most proud of and why?* What post was the most difficult to write and how did you tackle it?* Any lessons learned that you want to share with the community?* Your advice for people just getting started with blogging?* A few blogs that you particularly enjoy?I'll repeat my most important piece of advice here:> My number one tip for blogging is to lower your standards! Aim to hit publish while you are still actively unhappy with what you have written, because the only alternative is a huge folder full of drafts and never publishing anything at all.> Nobody will ever know how perfect the thing you*> to write would have been. The flaws you see in your writing are invisible to everyone else.**An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing**.Stop me if you've heard this one before:> An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during cybersecurity testing, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday.> Meta says the breach occurred because of an inadvertent error during testing of the model, similar to previously disclosed incidents with OpenAI and Anthropic.> “A misconfiguration by Irregular, an independent testing company Meta uses, inadvertently allowed one of our models access to the internet during evaluation,” the Meta spokesperson said.> Meta’s Muse Spark model “exploited a security vulnerability” in another company “in a manner similar to previously-reported instances with other companies.”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 simonwillison.net.
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://simonwillison.net");
// 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.simonwillison.net", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
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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 simonwillison.net costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000156 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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