Ualberta Scraper
Spider read ualberta.ca in 3.5 s without a browser and returned 410 lines of clean markdown.
BA, bachelor of arts, bachelor’s degreebachelor of laws* – Use “law degree” except in grad year format. (*The “s” is correct.) *Note*: LLB and JD are different degrees.between/among – Canadian Oxford allows “between” for more than two itemsBIPOC – not UofA style; see IBPOCBlack – capitalize when referring to Black peopleBoard of Governors – capitalize the full name of the U of A Board of Governors on first reference only. Lowercase subsequent mentions (i.e., the board).BSc (not CP style), bachelor of sciencecalls to action – 94 Calls to Action were released by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada in its 2015 report on the Indian Residential School System; capitalize in order to distinguish from the generic term.campuses – the UofA has more than one campus. If referring to one campus, identify it by name. Don't use “main campus”; use North Campus instead.Canada Excellence Research Chair – title expires after a certain term so ensure it is still current.Canada Foundation for InnovationCanada Research Chair – not preceded by “the”; *Example*: Shannon Wrigley, Canada Research Chair in Incredible ResearchCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchCentennial Centre for Interdisciplinary ScienceCentennial Professor of … (capitalize rest of title)class/course – use “course” when referring to a course in general (e.g., the Economics 101 course). Use “class” when referring to a specific session of a course.College of Natural and Applied SciencesCollege of Social Sciences and Humanitiescommunity service learning – no hyphen when referencing generally, i.e.,: a community service learning course. When speaking specifically of the UofA program, match the official name, i.e, Community Service-Learning.convocation – a formal gathering, as in a graduation ceremony *Note*: “convocate” is incorrect; use “graduate.”Corp. – abbreviate in company namesThe 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 ualberta.ca.
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://ualberta.ca");
// 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.ualberta.ca", {
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 ualberta.ca costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000237 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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