The Times Homepage Scraper
Spider read thetimes.co.uk in 190 ms without a browser and returned 966 lines of clean markdown.
Trump ‘berates Pete Hegseth’ as US runs out of missilesSevere depletion of stockpiles after five months of war with Iran is thought to have led the president to call off strikesChemotherapy straight after surgery could help combat brain cancerResearchers have found that blasting glioblastoma cells with chemotherapy 15 minutes after surgery, or 48 to 72 hours afterwards, could aid treatmentI made $12 million selling tubs of slime. Now I’m retired at 25Jacob Karram built a slime empire beloved by Kim Kardashian out of his bedroom aged 17. Today he finds retirement is not what he expectedSuspended Labour MP to sue minister over claims he was ‘mentally ill’Karl Turner will allege business secretary Jonathan Reynolds breached the Equality ActFormer Bake Off boss suing Sky for ‘unfair sacking’Letty Kavanagh claims she was unfairly sacked after raising concerns about the broadcaster’s plans to take Great British Bake Off from Channel 4EasyJet agrees £5.7bn takeover by US private equity firmThe path to purchase by Apollo was cleared after Castlelake withdrew its rival bidFamily pay tribute to ‘kind and selfless’ victim of Athens suitcase killing‘Nothing has changed’, as condition of Britain’s rivers stagnatesAndrew ‘chased by stalker in balaclava’ on Sandringham estateFashion world at war over Met’s Galliano show: ‘A thorny choice’EasyJet agrees £5.7bn takeover by US private equity firmThe alleged incident near Marsh Farm is at the centre of criminal proceedings against a 39-year-old manThe designer is looking to complete his return to mainstream fashion with next year’s exhibition after racist and antisemitic comments forced his exileEnglish winemakers rejoice as hot weather heralds ‘extraordinary’ yearProducers believe 2026 could be one of the best vintages the country has ever seen as the sun intensifies flavours, ripeness and sugar levelsThe 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 thetimes.co.uk.
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.thetimes.co.uk");
// 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!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.thetimes.co.uk");
const data = await page.extractFields({
meta_description: "meta[name='description']",
site_description: "meta[name='description']",
site_url: "meta[property='og:url']",
});
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 thetimes.co.uk costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.002104 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.