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sur.ly · HTTP 200

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Spider read sur.ly in 198 ms without a browser and returned 125 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Custom colors and branding".

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Response sur.ly/index.md markdown · 125 lines
# Sur.ly alters the outbound links on your site so that visitors can get to external target pages without leaving your domain.## Surely the simplest tool to:Cope with fake users signing up for your site to get backlinksSur.ly can nullify all efforts of spammers trying to create fake profiles on a public site to get a free link and thus steal some link juice from it.Minimize the risk of an algorithmic Google penaltySur.ly turns any risky or toxic outbound links within user-generated content into safe and SEO-friendly internal links.Keep users within your domain longer to reduce the bounce rateSur.ly allows users to view the external pages while staying within your domain as long as possible and thus helps you keep the bounce rate in check.Recapture users leaving via outbound linksSur.ly helps you to attract users back to your site with the headlines and pics from your articles listed on a clickable panel at the top of every external page.Protect users after they follow the outbound linksSur.ly provides users with a toolbar showing an up-to-date safety status of every website they visit via your links and warns about detected threats.Keep your traffic data private and secureConfidentiality is the key to success. With Sur.ly you can keep all the external traffic stats to yourself by relying upon your subdomain as a safety buffer.Increase your brand awarenessYou can customize Sur.ly toolbar to fit your website’s visual design and branding.Integrate with the web analytics serviceIntegrate Sur.ly with Google Analytics to track user behaviour after they leave your site.Sur.ly plugin is free and available for any content management system of your choice.## Custom colors and brandingBring your brand out with Sur.ly toolbar! Simply choose toolbar colors and suitable fonts, as Sur.ly automatically adds your website’s name, favicon, latest headlines, pics and article snippets.
Code · Fields · Cost · Run it keyless, no account

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 sur.ly.

sur-ly-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://sur.ly");

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

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser, no selectors

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Fields you can pull.

TitleContentDateSource

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 sur.ly costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000096 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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Run it keyless, no account

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://sur.ly/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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Start scraping sur.ly.

You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.