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Spider read spectrumlocalnews.com in 1.3 s without a browser and returned 59 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Matar’s defense: No evidence of his state of mind".

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Response spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/news/2026/07/20/hadi-matar-federal-trial-in-the-2022-stabbing-of-salman-rushdie-to-begin-tuesday-with-jury-selection.md markdown · 59 lines
# Man convicted in federal terrorism trial for stabbing author Salman Rushdie in 2022PUBLISHED 1:19 AM ET Jul. 20, 2026PUBLISHED 1:19 AM EDT Jul. 20, 2026BUFFALO, N.Y. —A man was convicted Wednesday of federal terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie, the author who has faced a decades-old death threat over his novel “The Satanic Verses.”A jury found Hadi Matar guilty of all the charges against him, including engaging in an act of transnational terrorism.Matar, 28, is already serving a 25-year New York state prison sentence on an attempted murder conviction in the August 2022 attack on an amphitheater stage. The federal conviction carries a potential life sentence.Sentencing is scheduled to take place on Nov. 3.Jury deliberations took less than two hours on Wednesday.Matar’s lawyer on Tuesday told the court that the 28-year-old — who already has been convicted of state-level attempted murder charges — wouldn’t take the stand at his federal terrorism trial, on charges that include engaging in an act of transnational terrorism.“At this time, the defense rests,” attorney Nathaniel Barone said. Matar has pleaded not guilty.Prosecutors also rested their case Tuesday. Rushdie, the prize-winning author, testified last week about the 2022 attack that nearly killed him and left him blind in one eye.Rushdie, who was about to speak on writers’ safety, was slashed 15 times in front of a stunned audience. He was gravely wounded and lost the sight in his right eye.#### **Matar’s defense: No evidence of his state of mind**Prosecutors asserted that Matar was motivated by the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ’s 1989 call for Rushdie’s death because of “The Satanic Verses.” Defense lawyer Nathaniel Barone countered that the government had no proof of what was in Matar’s head.
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The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on spectrumlocalnews.com.

spectrumlocalnews-com-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://spectrumlocalnews.com");

// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
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Fields you can pull.

HeadlineSummaryAuthorPublished Date

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 spectrumlocalnews.com costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000166 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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curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/news/2026/07/20/hadi-matar-federal-trial-in-the-2022-stabbing-of-salman-rushdie-to-begin-tuesday-with-jury-selection", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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