Techdirt Scraper
Spider read techdirt.com in 159 ms without a browser and returned 615 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Tuesday", "Monday" and "Sunday".
Brendan Carr’s FCC Rewrites Media Ownership Law Only Congress Can Actually ChangeDaily Deal: The Ultimate Python & Artificial Intelligence Bundle (0)Trump's Mass Detention Policy Shut Down By Two Appeals Courts On The Same Day (6)Meta Backs Off Sloppy Gambit To Nickel-And-Dime AI Glasses Customers (11)## TuesdayRFK Jr. Just Embarrassed Himself Publicly On CNN (35)Using Trust & Safety Tycoon In The Classroom (3)The Antifa Terrorism Threat Trump Describes Does Not Exist (27)eBay And Former Execs Agree To Pay $56 Million For Trying To 'Crush' A Journalist (5)Daily Deal: Curiosity Stream Standard Plan (0)Capital One Says Money Laundering, Not January 6 Riot, Led To Shutdown Of Trump Accounts (27)Gavin Newsom Makes An Ass Of Himself On Antitrust, Paramount Merger (28)## MondaySony Gives Its Disc-Loving Customers A Giant Middle Finger (21)Judge To xAI: If This Law Is So Urgent, Why Did You Wait Three Months To Sue? (11)The SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites (9)DOJ Dumps Reflecting Pool Charges, Admits It Was All The Fault Of Trump's No-Bid Pool Guys; While Trump Sticks By His Vandalism Story (26)Daily Deal: Rosetta Stone Sapphire 1-Year Subscription (0)Trump Spends The Weekend Fighting For The $1.776 Billion Slush Fund His Chosen Attorney General Swears Is Dead (16)Trump's Sloppy, Incompetent Chinese Protectionism Expanded To Robot Vacuums, Lawnmowers (7)## SundayFunniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt (6)## SaturdayThis Week In Techdirt History: July 26th - August 1st (0)## FridayRFK Jr., Who Is Definitely Not Checked Out Of His Job, To Host A Cooking Show (23)What Ukraine’s Battlefield Openness Can Teach Washington About AI Access (9)Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Zuck Starts Throwing His Weights Around (1)Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department For “Unlawful,” “Unethical” And “Unseemly” Conduct (12)Daily Deal: The Lifetime Learner Bundle (0)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 techdirt.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://techdirt.com");
// 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.techdirt.com", {
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 techdirt.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000323 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.
- Free balance on signup
- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
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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.