Theonion Scraper
Spider read theonion.com in 175 ms without a browser and returned 310 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Antichrist Rolls Eyes Throughout Peter Thiel Lecture", "Recent Videos" and "Chippendales Recalls 4,000 Tons Of Tainted Man Meat".
Become a Member. Get the Paper.## Antichrist Rolls Eyes Throughout Peter Thiel LectureROME—In addition to crossing his arms and shaking his head as he listened to the tech billionaire spread blatant misinformation…* ### Everyone Needs To Calm Down, Reports Man Who Accidentally Shot Someone* ### Eating Disorders: Myth Vs. Fact## Recent Videos### Chippendales Recalls 4,000 Tons Of Tainted Man Meat### Last-Ever Global Warming Report Released For Posterity### Tesla Launches New Model Of Explosions### **The Onion:**** ****Sending Emails For Over A Hundred Years.**Get All The Latest Headlines By Email, Once A Day.Add Your Name to the Daily ListThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.## In Other News### Premium DraftKings Feature Lets User Select Players To Have Legs Broken By GoonsBOSTON—Touting the offering as a path to even bigger winnings from daily fantasy football picks, sports gambling app DraftKings unveiled…* #### Shoplifter Always Gets Little Adrenaline Rush After Stealing Basic Necessities For Family* #### Dying Polar Bear Has To Admit Owning A Private Jet Would Be Fucking Sick## Trending### The Onion’s Top State Fair Foods### Man Came To Funeral Straight From Work### Study: Explosive Power Of Rocket Launcher Increased 35% By Shouting ‘Suck On This’## American Voices### Ariana Grande Takes Break From Public Life Amid ‘Endless Scrutiny’### Truth Social Begins Selling Advanced Access To Trump Posts### Oprah Announces Closure Of School For Girls In Africa### U.S. Bans Foreign-Made Humanoid Robots## Politics### New DNC Fundraising Email Urges Voters To Find Something Better To Do With Their MoneyWASHINGTON—Pleading with recipients to use their hard-earned cash more productively, a Democratic National Committee fundraising email sent out Thursday urged voters…* #### Pentagon Declassifies Files On Blimps* #### Trump Baselessly Claims He Is Viral 40-Pound Tabby Cat Named Daddy CinnamonThe 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 theonion.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://theonion.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.theonion.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 theonion.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.00069 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 theonion.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.