Stsci Scraper
Spider read stsci.edu in 1.6 s without a browser and returned 31 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Program Contents" and "Requests".
GO](https://www.stsci.edu/hst-program-info/program-help/?program=17084#types) 17084##### Fri Aug 07 17:05:45 EDT 2026**Principal Investigator:** Matthew Bayliss**PI Institution:** University of Cincinnati Main Campus**Title:** Zooming In On Two Strongly Lensed Galaxies During the Epoch of Re-Ionization**Proprietary Period:** 6 months**Program Status:** Program has been Completed**Program Coordinator:** Weston Eck**Contact Scientist:** Annalisa Calamida## Program Contents## Requests* Report a duplication of an observation in this program by another HST program.* Request an observing change. 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 stsci.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://stsci.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.stsci.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 stsci.edu costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000022 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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