SSRN Scraper
Spider read ssrn.com in 210 ms without a browser and returned 91 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "What we offer", "SSRN by the numbers" and "over 1.5 Million".
# Tomorrow's Research TodaySSRN's mission is to rapidly share preprints and other early-stage research, empowering global scholars to help shape a better future. Our open research platform helps researchers solve hard problems by connecting scholars worldwide across a wide range of academic disciplines.Search SSRN by Title, Abstract & Keywords## What we offer### Share your Research Post your research on SSRN and start getting citations and downloads for your work.### Browse the Research Find the research you need to move your work forward.### Sign up for Email alerts Get regular updates on the research topics that matter to you.## SSRN by the numbers### over 1.5 Million### over 1.9 Million### over 300 Million### over 47 Million### over 2 Million### 69## Latest Updates from SSRNNo blog posts available at the moment...## Meet the AuthorsNo authors available at the moment...## Authors on SSRNNo author comments available at the moment...## DisciplinesSSRN provides more than 1.5 Million preprints and research papers from our 1.9 Million in over 69 Disciplines.### Applied SciencesApplied Sciences are those disciplines, including applied and pure mathematics, that apply existing scientific knowledge to develop practical applications.### Health SciencesHealth Sciences are those disciplines that address the use of science and technology to the delivery of healthcare.### HumanitiesHumanities are those disciplines that investigate human constructs, cultures and concerns, using critical and analytical approaches.### Life SciencesLife Sciences are those disciplines that study living organisms, their life processes, and their relationships to each other and their environment.### Physical SciencesPhysical Sciences are those disciplines that study natural sciences, dealing with non-living materials.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 ssrn.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://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/results.cfm?RequestTimeout=50000000&txtKey_Words=fintech");
// 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://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/results.cfm?RequestTimeout=50000000&txtKey_Words=fintech");
await page.content(10000);
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const papers = [];
document.querySelectorAll(".result-item, .paper-result").forEach(el => {
const title = el.querySelector(".title a, .result-title a")?.textContent?.trim();
const authors = el.querySelector(".authors, .result-authors")?.textContent?.trim();
const downloads = el.querySelector(".download-count, .result-downloads")?.textContent?.trim();
const date = el.querySelector(".date, .result-date")?.textContent?.trim();
if (title) papers.push({ title, authors, downloads, date });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: papers.length, papers: papers.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 ssrn.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000119 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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