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Automotive

The Drive Scraper

Scrape The Drive automotive journalism, buyer guides, how-to articles, and product review roundups with ratings. Powered by spider-browser .

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thedrive.com target
99.5% success rate
~4ms latency
Quick Start

Extract data in minutes

the-drive-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.thedrive.com/news");

const data = await page.extractFields({
  title: "h1.article-title",
  author: ".author-name",
  date: "time.article-date",
  summary: ".article-deck",
  category: ".article-category a",
  image: { selector: ".article-hero img", attribute: "src" },
});

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
✓ ready to run | spider-browser | TypeScript
Fetch API

Structured data endpoint

Extract structured JSON from thedrive.com with a single POST request. AI-configured selectors, cached for fast repeat calls.

POST /fetch/thedrive.com/
Article titleAuthorCategoryPublish dateFeatured imageSummary
curl
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/thedrive.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/thedrive.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/thedrive.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

Data you can extract

Article titleAuthorCategoryPublish dateFeatured imageSummaryRatingBody text
Listings

Vehicle inventory

Extract make, model, year, price, and mileage from thedrive.com listings.

Rendering

Dynamic search

Handle interactive search filters, map views, and lazy-loaded inventory pages.

Scale

Market coverage

Process thousands of vehicle listings across dealers and private sellers.

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