TED Talks Scraper

Extract talk transcripts, speaker profiles, topic tags, view counts, and event details from TED conference archives. Built on spider-browser .

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target
ted.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

ted-talks-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://www.ted.com/talks?sort=popular&language=en");

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const talks = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("[data-testid='talk-card']").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector("h3")?.textContent?.trim();
    const speaker = el.querySelector("[data-testid='talk-card-speaker']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const duration = el.querySelector("[data-testid='talk-card-duration']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const views = el.querySelector("[data-testid='talk-card-views']")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (title) talks.push({ title, speaker, duration, views });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: talks.length, talks: talks.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

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Fetch API

One endpoint for ted.com.

Structured JSON from ted.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

POST /fetch/ted.com/

Talk titleSpeakerDurationViewsTopic tagsEvent

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cURL

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/ted.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/ted.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/ted.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);

Extraction