UBC News Archive Scraper

A list of research articles and news stories from The University of British Columbia. Built on spider-browser .

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target
ubc.ca: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

ubc-ca-scraper.ts

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.ubc.ca");

const data = await page.extractFields({
  archive_count: "article, [class*='content']",
  description: "p, [class*='description']",
  image: "figure img, article img",
  link: "a[href^="/archives/"]",
  topic: "[class*='topic'], a[href*='/tag/']",
});

console.log(data);
await spider.close();

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Fetch API

One endpoint for ubc.ca.

Structured JSON from ubc.ca with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

POST /fetch/ubc.ca/

Archive CountDescriptionImageLinkTopic

Try it Fetch docs

cURL

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/ubc.ca/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/ubc.ca/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/ubc.ca/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);

Extraction