Thetvdb Scraper
Spider read thetvdb.com in 2.8 s without a browser and returned 2,218 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Season 4".
### Season 4Sonny Days with a Chance of ShowersBirthday Girl kidnaps meteorologist Sonny Days and demands that he announce her birthday on TV.Vocab words: Precipitation, MeteorologistBecky suspects Seymour Smooth is up to no good when he delays announcing his new show's winning ticket numbers.Vocab words: Delay, CaptivatedDr. Two-Brains has big plans when the Butcher fills in for one of Two-Brains' henchmen.Vocab words: Surrender, TemporaryWordGirl battles the hiccups while Chuck tries to get his condiment ray fixed by Hal Hardbargain.Mr. Big is arrested, leaving it to his assistant, Leslie, to carry out their latest evil plan: building the world's most powerful mind-control device.WordGirl learns that Dr. Two-Brains is on an all-out cheese rampage just as she's about to give a tour of her secret hideout to the winner of the WordGirl Synonym Contest.Vocab words: Abandon, DilemmaChuck with a Sidekick of BrentChuck teams with his brother Brent and tries to turn the city into a giant sandwich.Vocab words: Accomplish, ScheduleBampy helps WordGirl stop Granny May's latest plot: exchanging gold jewelry for purple yarn.Becky babysits TJ while Mr. and Mrs. Botsford celebrate their anniversary at an ice-cream parlor that just happens to be the target of the Whammer's wrath.Vocab words: Glimpse, OccasionDr. Two-Brains forces Hal Hardbargain to create a ray that turns superheroes into cheese.Vocab words: Confiscate, WhizTJ makes and sells WordGirl bobblehead dolls which makes WordGirl distracted.Vocab words: Bobble, SouvenirVillainous Victoria Best sets out to be the best superhero in the city in order to force WordGirl into retirement.Vocab words: Exceptional, MeddleWhere Have All the Villains Gone?Ms. Question devises a devious plan to get rid of WordGirl: eliminate all of the city's villains so WordGirl is no longer needed.Vocab words: Eliminate, EntireThe 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 thetvdb.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://thetvdb.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.thetvdb.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 thetvdb.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000665 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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- Balance never expires
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Start scraping thetvdb.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.