The Diplomat Scraper
Spider read thediplomat.com in 113 ms without a browser and returned 238 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Most Read".
South Korea’s strategic challenges – and the potential solutions – make the case for democratic multilateralism.](https://thediplomat.com/2026/08/how-south-korea-can-survive-the-unbundling-of-international-order/)[#### The Rule of Law in Afghanistan Failed Long Before the Taliban’s TriumphTo be rightfully concerned about the present is not an excuse to distort the past.](https://thediplomat.com/2026/08/the-rule-of-law-in-afghanistan-failed-long-before-the-talibans-triumph/)[#### Bangladesh-India Relations Hit Fresh TurbulenceBangladesh expressed “outrage” even as India said it had nothing to do with Sheikh Hasina’s online media engagement at the Awami League presser in New Delhi.](https://thediplomat.com/2026/08/bangladesh-india-relations-hit-fresh-turbulence/)[#### China’s ‘Ethnic Unity’ Law is Already Harming UyghursGovernment actions that could once be described as regional campaigns are now embedded in national legislation. Restrictions will become easier to expand and harder to challenge.](https://thediplomat.com/2026/08/chinas-ethnic-unity-law-is-already-harming-uyghurs/)[#### Delhi’s EV Policy Changes the Engine, Not the SystemElectric vehicles can reduce pollution and emissions. But underlying issues of preserving car dependence, displacing environmental harm, and workers bearing the costs of a clean future need to be addressed.](https://thediplomat.com/2026/08/delhis-ev-policy-changes-the-engine-not-the-system/)### Most Read[#### Is Islamic Extremism Taking Over Bangladesh?Two years after Sheikh Hasina's ouster, what is the role of Islamist movements in Bangladesh?](https://thediplomat.com/2026/08/is-islamic-extremism-taking-over-bangladesh/)[#### 12 Asian Countries Subject to Finalized US Visa Bond ProgramThe 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 thediplomat.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://thediplomat.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 { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
stealth: 2,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://thediplomat.com/");
await page.content();
const data = await page.extractFields({
headline: "h1.entry-title, h2.entry-title a",
author: ".author-name a, .byline a",
date: "time[datetime], .date",
summary: ".entry-excerpt, .dek",
body: ".entry-content, .article-body",
region: ".region-tag, .category a",
image: { selector: "figure img, .featured-image 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 thediplomat.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000193 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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