Stanford Scraper
Spider read stanford.edu in 191 ms without a browser and returned 209 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Stanford University", "Behind the science in the Nanopatterning Cleanroom" and "A roadmap for responsible student assessments in the AI era".
# Stanford UniversityStanford Report Visit the Stanford Report website for the latest research, scholarship, and campus news.### Behind the science in the Nanopatterning CleanroomHamish Carr Delgado, a PhD student in materials science and engineering, shares how he’s working at the nanoscale to produce more energy-efficient chips for AI data centers.NewsArtificial Intelligence### A roadmap for responsible student assessments in the AI eraAI is changing what, where, and how testing happens. A new Stanford white paper outlines how can teachers, schools, and test developers can respond.### Chemists find a new path to bioluminescenceThe molecule behind the glow of fireflies and plankton breaks apart in an unexpected order under force – a discovery that could lead to better stress sensors and help illuminate some mysteries of the natural world.NewsLeadership & Governance### Tomiko Brown-Nagin appointed dean of Stanford Graduate School of EducationThe distinguished leader in higher education and accomplished scholar in the fields of law, history, and education reform will begin her tenure on Nov. 1.## Research for a Better WorldSolving society’s pressing challenges requires state-of-the-art laboratories and smart people. It also takes a deep belief in the power of cross-disciplinary collaboration and the audacity to go in new directions.Research Read more about research at Stanford.Private investment in companies that grew out of federally funded Stanford researchJobs created by companies that grew out of federally funded Stanford researchNew companies based on federally funded Stanford researchInventions created by federally funded Stanford research### Achieving the promise of human-centered AIOur impact Learn more about financial aid at Stanford.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 stanford.edu.
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://stanford.edu");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const spider = new Spider({ apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY! });
const result = await spider.scrapeUrl("https://www.stanford.edu", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(result);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 stanford.edu costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.001199 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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- Balance never expires
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