The Nation Scraper
Spider read thenation.com in 167 ms without a browser and returned 353 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Features".
# Log In*Fridays*. A weekly digest of the best of our coverage.Bernie and AOC Are Taking On AI. Only One of Them Is Doing It Right.Sanders is responding to the deceptive narratives floated by the industry. AOC is talking to experts who really understand how AI works.Lindsey Graham’s Defense of Brett Kavanaugh Told Us EverythingThe senator’s infamous cry of rage spoke not only to his cruelty but also to his larger role in changing the court.Could Abdul El-Sayed Upend Democratic Politics for Good?If Michigan sends a Senator Abdul El-Sayed to Washington, traditional “electability” assumptions will have been shattered for good.Two new books examine these dark decades in Spanish history.Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer SeguínAnn Scott’s“Superstars”captures the last gasp of pre-Internet counterculture.How Japan’s Media Ecosystem Is Fighting Climate ChangeHundreds of outlets across the country have joined the “I am the 89%” campaign.Pedro Sánchez Is Living on Borrowed TimeSpain’s prime minister has become a global progressive icon. But at home, his government is hanging by a thread.A historically hot summer is revealing a society massively unprepared for the new climate reality.June Loper and Harrison Stetler## Features“swipe left below to view more features”Swipe →Abortion Has Always Been an American TraditionMore than one founding father knew that to be truly free, women needed control over their reproduction.Separation of Church and State: America’s Best IdeaChristian nationalists keep forgetting what the country’s founders kept writing down.How America Became the Progenitor of EnvironmentalismFrom Indigenous practices to the Green New Deal, our country has always focused on prioritizing our planet.## *Latest**Podcasts*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 thenation.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.thenation.com/politics/");
// 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://www.thenation.com/politics/");
await page.content();
const data = await page.extractFields({
headline: "h1.article-title, h2.card-title a",
author: ".byline a, .author-name a",
date: "time[datetime], .date-published",
summary: ".dek, .article-excerpt",
body: ".article-body-inner, .post-content",
tags: ".article-tags a, .topics 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 thenation.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.00044 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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