Thesmokinggun Scraper
Spider read thesmokinggun.com in 184 ms without a browser and returned 98 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Andre the Giant", "Van Halen '82" and "DOCUMENT: Friday Photo Fun Match Game".
### Police: Nemo Was Found Engaging In Some Lewd Pantless Activity### Andre the GiantAfter allegedly roughing up a TV cameraman, the 540-pound wrestler was arrested for assault by sheriff’s deputies in Linn County, Iowa.VIEW ALL CELEBRITY MUG SHOTS »### Van Halen '82In the backstage rider by which all others are still judged, the band not only outlawed brown M&Ms, they demanded “herring in sour cream” and a tube of personal lubricant.VIEW ALL BACKSTAGE RIDERS »### BUSTER: What Not To Do When Caught Having Sex In The Bar's Bathroom### DOCUMENT: Friday Photo Fun Match Game### DOCUMENT: Idiot "Auditor" Gets Jail For Assaulting Target### DOCUMENT: Nursing Aide Took Naked Photo Of Patient, 93### DOCUMENT: Iowa Woman Busted On Lawn Mower OUI Rap# Idiot "Auditor" Gets Jail For Assaulting TargetMichigan man, 47, tries to rage bait his way to YouTube $$Ian Pfister is not teaching an al fresco 1L Con Law class. He is driven by a desperate need to incite, create virality, and scrounge up more subscribers.## Friday Photo Fun Match GamePair up suspects with what they allegedly stoleExamine the booking photos of five arrested individuals and align the accused with the items they were busted for pilfering.## Nursing Aide Took Naked Photo Of Patient, 93Woman with dementia was asleep at the timeCops say Jessica Johnson, 44, admitted sending the image to an ex-girlfriend, and claimed “it was done in a joking manner."### Fark* [There's a bunch of hot and bothered women banging away on DC street corners [Giggity]](https://www.fark.com/comments/14156188?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=comments&utm_campaign=fark)* [Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia sign a mutual defense deal in the face of Iranian threats, because apparently we're not gonna get WW3 kicked off until we get WW1 style entanglements [Followup]](https://www.fark.com/comments/14156418?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=comments&utm_campaign=fark)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 thesmokinggun.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://thesmokinggun.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.thesmokinggun.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 thesmokinggun.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000068 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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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.