Com Scraper
Spider read theage.com.au in 188 ms without a browser and returned 613 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Victoria".
### ‘It was quite traumatic’: Hugo Weaving on overcoming a childhood diagnosis – and the secrets to a happy familyHe was once “a very shy little boy” – but the Australian actor has conquered more than one challenge to carve out an extraordinary career in the spotlight.### ‘My opinion didn’t count’: Tina Arena discusses ill-fated marriage to Ralph Carr in new documentaryThe top-selling singer opens up about her biggest regret, racist bullying and why she’s now doing things on her own terms.### Jason speaks Japanese, runs marathons and a business – but he couldn’t swim until Gary came along### I thought Parkinson’s had taken my mum away. Then we began playing poker##### Tony Wright’s Column### Long before her media bans, Pauline held a sleepover for journalists## Victoria##### Victorian Parliament### ‘Marshall should go’: Top corruption buster says fire union boss unfit to leadPeter Marshall defended his record and said his only duty was to his members. But top anti-corruption barrister Geoffrey Watson isn’t having a bar of it.##### Victoria Police conduct### Police told Brodie’s mum he suffered an ‘intoxicated fall’. Then she uncovered what really happenedBrodie Holt suffered brain damage after an arrest outside a Traralgon hotel where his head was allegedly slammed into a brick wall, amid broader concerns about alleged police misconduct in Gippsland.##### Public transport### The train lines that are about to be boosted with hundreds more servicesIn the first timetable shake-up since the Metro Tunnel was unveiled, hundreds of services have been added to Melbourne’s network, including a service connecting bayside with the western suburbs.##### Justice### Experts reveal flaw in using psychological risk to keep court cases secretThe 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 theage.com.au.
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://theage.com.au");
// 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.theage.com.au", {
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 theage.com.au costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.001872 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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Start scraping theage.com.au.
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