Thebalance Scraper
Spider read thebalance.com in 793 ms without a browser and returned 62 lines of clean markdown.
20+ Years Making Money Make Sense160 Million Readers Helped a Year14,000+ Articles Written and Fact-Checked By Experts:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)/GettyImages-498335019-569d0f595f9b58eba4abf4dc.jpg) How to Calculate Withholding and Deductions From a PaycheckHow to Open a Bank Account and What You Need for ItHow to Write a Check: A Step-by-Step GuideCertificate of Deposit Strategy GuideBudgets: Everything You Need To KnowOnline Stock Trading 101: A Beginner's Guide5 Online Businesses You Can Start With No MoneyLife Insurance vs. Annuity: What's the Difference?20 Ways to Take Control of Your FinancesWhat Is a Financial Institution?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 thebalance.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://thebalance.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.thebalance.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 thebalance.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000444 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
Run it keyless, no account
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Start scraping thebalance.com.
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.