Slashdot Homepage Scraper

A homepage for Slashdot, a news and discussion site for nerds and tech enthusiasts. Built on spider-browser .

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target
slashdot.org: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

slashdot-org-scraper.ts

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.slashdot.org");

const data = await page.extractFields({
  site_rss: "link[rel=alternate][href*='rss.slashdot.org']",
  site_rss_link: "link[rel=alternate][href*='rss.slashdot.org']",
  site_search: "link[rel=search][href*='search.pl']",
});

console.log(data);
await spider.close();

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Fetch API

One endpoint for slashdot.org.

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

POST /fetch/slashdot.org/

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cURL

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/slashdot.org/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/slashdot.org/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/slashdot.org/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);

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