Uchicago Scraper
Spider read uchicago.edu in 170 ms without a browser and returned 41 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "LATEST NEWS", "Explore the ‘Chicago Minds’ campaign" and "We value rigorous inquiry".
video showing various scenes around UChicago campus with overlay text: Field-Defining Scholarship, Transformative Education, World-Changing Ideas, The University of Chicago## LATEST NEWSEngineered gut bacteria show promise against pancreatic cancerSource: NewsSourceAnthropologist of the Caribbean emphasizes the power of ‘big small places’Source: NewsSourceAI-powered robotic labs at UChicago, Argonne receive $20 million NSF grantSource: NewsSourceIn a quiet UChicago garden, volunteers cultivate food and communitySource: NewsSource# Explore the ‘Chicago Minds’ campaignLearn about the ambitious initiative to expand UChicago’s global impact through research and education.## We value rigorous inquiryA diversity of people and ideas, coupled with free and open discourse, lays the foundation for students and scholars to bring forth original ideas that define fields and enrich human life.## We foster independent thinking## Field-defining researchUChicago researchers have contributed to some of the world’s greatest discoveries, advancements, and bodies of knowledge.## Transformative educationUChicago students develop the habits of mind and intellectual skills needed to confront complex challenges.## We advance ideas and humanity## A history of groundbreaking discoveriesSince UChicago’s founding, its scholars have transformed our world through their work, changing the way we live and think.## Community impactAs a community partner, we invest in Chicago’s South Side across such areas as health, education, economic growth, and the arts.## Global impactWe are an international community of scholars working to solve the world's most pressing issues, with initiatives and programs on all seven continents.## We call Chicago homeChicago is not only in our name, it’s woven into the fabric of this institution. Located in the Hyde Park neighborhood, we benefit from the diversity, arts, and vibrant culture of our South Side community.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 uchicago.edu.
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://uchicago.edu");
// 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.uchicago.edu", {
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 uchicago.edu costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000266 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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