Slashdot Homepage Scraper
Spider read slashdot.org in 155 ms without a browser and returned 358 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Most Discussed", "Hot Comments" and "This Day on Slashdot".
Looks like someone has already voted from this IP. If you would like to vote please login and try again.Percentage of others that also voted for:## Most DiscussedBMW Blasts Its Cars' Internal Screens With Aggressive AdsWaymo CEO Explains Why Camera-Only Self-Driving Falls ShortFDA Approves First mRNA Flu ShotFCC Kills TV Ownership Cap, Claiming Authority Over Limit Set By CongressThe Days of Walking Into a T-Mobile Store May Be Numbered## Hot Commentson Thursday August 06, 2026 @06:31PM'Tower Dump' Warrants Ruled Unconstitutional* **As we are in yet another 5+ hour GitHub outage...on Thursday August 06, 2026 @05:07PMAzure CTO Pastes Doom Into Paint One Frame At a Timeon Thursday August 06, 2026 @11:44PM* **Crime is the new look for Rapeublicanson Thursday August 06, 2026 @02:14PMon Thursday August 06, 2026 @03:05PM## This Day on SlashdotPlanet At Risk of Heading Towards Irreversible 'Hothouse Earth' StateAsk Slashdot: What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read?Apple Sued For Turning Workers Into SlavesCharging the Unhealthy More For InsuranceFormer Intel Engineer Pleads Guilty To Taliban Aid## Sourceforge Top DownloadsTrueType core fonts 2.2B downloads](https://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/?source=sd_slashbox)Notepad++ Plugin Mgr 1.5B downloads](https://sourceforge.net/projects/npppluginmgr/?source=sd_slashbox)VLC media player 899M downloads](https://sourceforge.net/projects/vlc/?source=sd_slashbox)eMule 686M downloads](https://sourceforge.net/projects/emule/?source=sd_slashbox)MinGW 631M downloads](https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/?source=sd_slashbox)> To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than threepersons, two of them absent.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 slashdot.org.
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");
// 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.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();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 slashdot.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000235 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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