Slate Scraper
Spider read slate.com in 188 ms without a browser and returned 447 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "House of the Dragon Has Done the Impossible Jenny G. Zhang", "The New Season of Ted Lasso Is Actually … Good? Sam Adams" and "Don’t Fall For 90s Nostalgia Slop ICYMI".
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 MoneyThe 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 slate.com.
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();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 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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