The Hill Scraper
Spider read thehill.com in 119 ms without a browser and returned 987 lines of clean markdown.
* Birthright citizenship * Tennessee House primary * Funding deal * National Firearms Act ## Sponsored: * Content from American Diabetes Associationby Sudiksha Kochi/3 hours agoAbuse, harassment allegations threaten to derail Republicans’ midterm message #### NOW PLAYING #### ## Husted, GOP Ohio senator facing reelection, calls on Miller to resign over abuse allegationsFetterman pushes El-Sayed to continue campaigning with Piker: ‘I dare you’ 00:37 ## How a stuffed blue bunny got caught in the Max Miller feud 01:13 ## Trump defends Hegseth after reported clash over munitions at Camp David 01:43by Sarah Fortinsky and Jared Gans/1 hour agoMax Miller faces mounting calls to quit from Senate GOP Morning Report / 1 hour agoby Zach Schonfeld/3 hours agoTariff refunds boost quarterly earnings for some of biggest US companies Court Battles / 3 hours ago For Insidersby Alexander Bolton/56 minutes agoMurkowski will oppose Blanche nomination, putting it in danger of stalling Senate / 56 minutes agoby Chris Stirewalt/45 minutes agoWhole Hog Politics: What we learn on vacation Whole Hog Politics / 45 minutes ago For Insidersby Julia Manchester/43 minutes agoTrump declines to back Thune for another term as Senate GOP leader Administration / 43 minutes agoby Ashleigh Fields/9 hours agoIran moves to block US, Israeli shipments from Strait of Hormuz Administration / 9 hours agoby Julia Manchester/3 hours agoTrump may be just what Michigan Democrats need after bruising primary Administration / 3 hours agoby Julia Manchester/1 hour agoTrump says GOP voters ‘angry’ at congressional Republicans ahead of midterms but not at him Administration / 1 hour agoby Julia Manchester/53 minutes agoTrump says he would ‘probably’ get along with Jeffries as Speaker Administration / 53 minutes agoby Sophie Brams and Mallory Wilson/16 hours agoThe 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 thehill.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://thehill.com/news/");
// 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://thehill.com/news/");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const articles = [];
document.querySelectorAll("article, .archive-item").forEach(el => {
const headline = el.querySelector("h1 a, h2 a, h3 a")?.textContent?.trim();
const link = el.querySelector("h1 a, h2 a, h3 a")?.href;
const excerpt = el.querySelector(".excerpt, .archive-item__text p")?.textContent?.trim();
const date = el.querySelector("time, .submitted-date")?.textContent?.trim();
if (headline) articles.push({ headline, link, excerpt, date });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: articles.length, articles: articles.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(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 thehill.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000798 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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