The Atlantic Scraper
Spider read theatlantic.com in 144 ms without a browser and returned 306 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Do Not Paint Granite", "A Biopic That Ends Right When It’s Getting Started" and "Disappear the Democrat’ Backfires in Montana".
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Kent Nishimura / AFP / Getty; Charly Triballeau / AFP / Getty.The French writers of the postwar era argued that the author’s life is irrelevant. Emily Eakin’s lively new book proves them wrong.### Someone Is Mysteriously Snapping Up Used Books Around the WorldWill Oliver / Bloomberg / Getty### Do Not Paint Granite!The president would ruin an architectural gem because he thinks it doesn’t match the White House.### A Biopic That Ends Right When It’s Getting StartedA new film about Anthony Bourdain uses its subject to examine how a young person comes to love cooking.### ‘Disappear the Democrat’ Backfires in MontanaThe party has been backing independent Senate candidates in red states. But Montana is not working as planned.Illustration by Anna Ruch / The Atlantic. Sources: Heritage Images / Getty; Melinda Sue Gordon / Universal Pictures / Everett Collection.### A Trojan Horse Is Supposed to Have Humans Inside ItChristopher Nolan’s *Odyssey* is full of contradictions about deceit and violence.Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Josefkubes / Getty; Seavector / Getty.### An Unfortunate Surprise for BMW OwnersThe luxury automaker is beaming a *Spider-Man *ad into its cars.Illustration by Celia Jacobs### A Sibling Is Not Always a ‘Gift’The term assumes that adding a child to a family is for the best. But that’s not always the case.Illustration by Mark Harris*### What Happened to al-Qaeda?Twenty-five years after 9/11, analysts can’t decide if the terrorist organization is all but defunct or more threatening than ever.### Gen Z Is Testing the Limits of How Weird Parties Can Get### Trump Should Need a Warrant to See Your Phone### What if Freud Was Right?## Recommended for you### Three Rules for Middle-Age HappinessGather friends and feed them, laugh in the face of calamity, and cut out all the things––people, jobs, body parts––that no longer serve you. *(From 2021)*Illustration by The AtlanticThe 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 theatlantic.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://www.theatlantic.com/technology/");
// 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!,
stealth: 2,
captcha: "solve",
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/");
const data = await page.extractFields({
headline: "h1, h2.ArticleTitle",
author: ".ArticleByline a, [data-testid='AuthorLink']",
date: "time[datetime]",
dek: ".ArticleDek, .article-dek",
body: ".ArticleBody, [class*='article-body']",
image: { selector: "[data-testid='LeadImage'] img, figure img", attribute: "src" },
});
console.log(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 theatlantic.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.0006 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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