slate.com

Slate Scraper

Extract commentary articles, podcast transcripts, and advice columns from Slate magazine digital platform.

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curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://slate.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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Content: 447 lines 15.9 KB markdown
Render: No browser plain request is enough
Fetch time: 188 ms one measured fetch
This fetch cost: $0.000737 bandwidth plus compute

Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts https://slate.com/

8h ago Greg Lavallee ### My Wife Wants to Put a Draconian Restriction on Our Kids’ Diets. This Is Madness.
### *House of the Dragon* Has Done the Impossible Jenny G. Zhang
### El-Sayed’s Victory in Michigan Was Much Closer Than Anyone Predicted. What Does That Mean for What Comes Next? Jim Newell
### Meet the Onetime Trump Critic Running Against Abdul El-Sayed One imagines Mike Rogers has enjoyed a lovely Michigan summer. Jim Newell
### The One Luxury That Kylie Jenner and Taylor Swift Can Both Afford—and You Can’t In the age of facial recognition, privacy is a status symbol. Steffi Cao
### As a Classicist, I’ve Defended Emily Wilson’s *Odyssey* Translation. I Can’t Defend Her Review of Nolan’s Movie. Theo Nash Emily Wilson used baffling arguments to flay Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s poem.
### The New Season of *Ted Lasso* Is Actually … Good? Sam Adams
### Don’t Fall For 90s Nostalgia Slop ICYMI
### The Internet Is Turning Women’s Health Into Clickbait ICYMI
### An Acclaimed Novelist’s New Book Is Supposedly a “Literary Assassination” of Natalie Portman. I’ve Read It. It’s Something Much Weirder. Laura Miller
### Netflix’s New No. 1 Show Is a Must-Watch for a Certain Type of Person. I’m Not So Sure It Should Be. Scaachi Koul
### They’re the Most Annoying Creatures on the Planet. You Don’t Know What They’re Going to Unleash on America. Marianne Dhenin They can do a lot more than ruin your summer day.
### My Husband Found an Unwelcome Visitor in Our Bed. It’s a Threat That’s Coming for All of Us. Talia Barrington
### These Activists Might Have Cracked the Code to Fighting the Data Center Boom Nitish Pahwa
### The One Luxury That Kylie Jenner and Taylor Swift Can Both Afford—and You Can’t Steffi Cao
### Money Talks: Country-sized Mistakes Slate Money
### Citadel Swoops In to Save Situational Awareness Slate Money

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The same call, in code.

The keyless call above returns markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on slate.com.

slate-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://slate.com/technology");

// 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!,
  stealth: 2,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://slate.com/technology");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const articles = [];
  document.querySelectorAll(".topic-story, .story-card").forEach(el => {
    const headline = el.querySelector("h3 a, .topic-story__hed a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const link = el.querySelector("h3 a, .topic-story__hed a")?.href;
    const dek = el.querySelector(".topic-story__dek")?.textContent?.trim();
    const author = el.querySelector(".topic-story__byline a")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (headline) articles.push({ headline, link, dek, author });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: articles.length, articles: articles.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);

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

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Fields you can pull.

HeadlineAuthorPublished dateSectionArticle bodySummaryImage URLComments

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 slate.com costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000737 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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