UBC News Archive Scraper
Spider read ubc.ca in 524 ms without a browser and returned 65 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "The University of British Columbia", "Marquee" and "Spotlight".
# The University of British Columbia## Marquee### The next generation of coastal scientists Seaweed School is teaching young students the importance of these “gateway” algae## Spotlight### Visit one of UBC Farm’s MarketsMarkets feature farm-fresh vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers and more### Join Yoga on the mallClasses are free to attend and open to all students, faculty, staff and visitors### Chan Centre presents Silvana EstradaWatch a performance by Mexican singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist## Connect with UBC## Explore UBC### Changes to fishing gear and handling can improve survival of released coho salmonLanding nets were the leading cause of injuries linked to deaths in released coho### Why protecting drinking water after wildfires is a public health issueSome of the most important damage begins after the fire has passed### 3 human skills AI can’t replace, according to a UBC Sauder instructorWhat it means to be irreplaceable in an AI-shaped workplace### Why so many whales are in Vancouver waters—and how to (legally) spot themResearchers explain what species are appearing and what people can do to keep them safe### 4 steps you can take to avoid ‘perceived scarcity’ and prevent food wasteFood waste continues to be a massive global problem### What two UBC Music scholars learned from a World Cup full of chantsHumans are wired to move with rhythmWe acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.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 ubc.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://www.ubc.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 { 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();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 ubc.ca costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000059 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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