The Intercept Scraper
Spider read theintercept.com in 192 ms without a browser and returned 304 lines of clean markdown.
# Black Residents Warned of Abusive Cops for Years. Then Police Shot and Killed a Toddler. Liliana Segura## Top Stories The Intercept Briefing ### The Most Expensive Democratic Senate Primary Has a Winner Intercept reporters break down progressives’ wins and losses in Michigan and Missouri.Targeting Iran ### The Pentagon Is Posting Cryptic Biblical Messages on Social Media Austin Campbell Defense Department accounts posted the biblical quote “SEND ME.” The Pentagon won’t say if its proselytizing is a message about the Iran war.Voices ### There’s No Time for Centrists to Be Doomers About El-Sayed’s Victory Eoin Higgins The public health official faced down AIPAC — and the entire Democratic Party establishment — to beat Haley Stevens. That’s well worth celebrating.Midterms 2026 ### Abdul El-Sayed Beats the Democratic Establishment and AIPAC in Michigan Jonah ValdezTargeting Iran ### When a President Promises a Massacre Nick TurseMidterms 2026 ### Wesley Bell Again Defeats Cori Bush — With Plenty of Help From AIPAC Akela LacyVoices ### Bari Weiss’s “60 Minutes” Hires Producer Who Downplayed Gaza Starvation, Justified Killing Journalists Adam JohnsonPodcasts The Intercept Briefing ### The Most Expensive Democratic Senate Primary Has a WinnerThe Intercept Briefing ### Abdul El-Sayed on The Intercept BriefingVoices Voices ### Liberals Are Ceding Ground to the Far Right on Ceuta Border Crossings Natasha LennardVoices ### Trump’s Truth Social API Is a Blatantly Corrupt Favor to Wall Street Dylan Gyauch-LewisOriginal reporting. Fearless journalism. Delivered to you.Iran ### The Pentagon Found a New Way to Undercount U.S. Casualties in Iran Nick Turse### Iran Has Figured Out How to Overwhelm U.S. Air Defenses Nick Turse### U.S. Official: Iran Attacks Injured “Far More” Troops Than Pentagon Admits Nick Turse### Iran Claims to Kill 3 U.S. Service Members in Kuwait Nick TurseMidterms ### Cori Bush Has No Regrets Akela LacyThe 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 theintercept.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://theintercept.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://theintercept.com/");
const data = await page.extractFields({
headline: "h1.post-heading, h2.CardHeadline",
author: ".post-byline a, .CardByline a",
date: "time[datetime]",
summary: ".post-dek, .CardDek",
body: ".post-content, .PostContent",
image: { selector: ".post-featured-image 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 theintercept.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000235 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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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.