TechCrunch Scraper
Spider read techcrunch.com in 55 ms without a browser and returned 578 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Startups", "Video" and "Lightspeed is building its edge on followers, not just funds".
Gen Z dating apps like Ditto ditch swiping in favor of AI matchmakingOpenAI says Apple’s own security practices undermine its trade secrets case## StartupsOmilia raises $67M to scale its customer support platform## VideoVenture ](https://techcrunch.com/category/venture/)## Lightspeed is building its edge on followers, not just fundsVenture firms are turning to creators to build trust with the next generation of founders before a check is ever written. It’s a trend that’s been building with a16z’s acquisition of Erik Torenberg’s Turpentine podcast and OpenAI’s acquisition of TBPN. Lightspeed Venture Partners just made its own notable hire in that vein, bringing on Claire Zau, a seed investor with a major following on Instagram and TikTok, to source deals and co-host the firm’s new show, Lightwork, alongside CMO Josh Machiz.Lightspeed is building its edge on followers, not just fundsSam Altman isn’t the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI‘No one’s making a phone like this’: Light’s co-founders on building for the anti-smartphone generationOpenAI’s own model went rogue before Kimi had Wall Street sweatingHow startups get noticed by Nvidia, Google, and other tech giantsMenlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains why Anthropic is winning (and it’s not the model)How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plansThe founder who left Google and secured a $300M pre-seed valuation in monthsInside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterpriseWhy raising your first round is harder than ever## SecurityHacker pleads guilty to stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customersPSA: Apple’s Private Relay can leak your real IP addressAndroid app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers## VentureMoove raises $250M to become the backbone of the robotaxi industryHow Lightspeed found its newest hire … via Instagram DMThe 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 techcrunch.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://techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence/");
// 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!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence/");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const articles = [];
document.querySelectorAll("article.post-block").forEach(el => {
const headline = el.querySelector("h2 a")?.textContent?.trim();
const author = el.querySelector(".river-byline__authors a")?.textContent?.trim();
const time = el.querySelector("time")?.getAttribute("datetime");
const link = el.querySelector("h2 a")?.getAttribute("href");
if (headline) articles.push({ headline, author, time, link });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: articles.length, articles: articles.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);
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 techcrunch.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000707 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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