Education

University of Cape Town Homepage Scraper

A scraper for extracting all content, metadata, and links from the University of Cape Town's official homepage. Powered by spider-browser .

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uct.ac.za target

99.9% success rate

~4ms latency

Quick Start

Extract data in minutes

uct-ac-za-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.uct.ac.za");

const data = await page.extractFields({
  description: "meta[name='description']",
  image: "img, .image",
  links: "a[href^="/"], a[href^="mailto:"], a[href^="tel:"]",
  site_description: "meta[name='description']",
  site_image: "img, .image",
  site_links: "a[href^="/"], a[href^="mailto:"], a[href^="tel:"]",
});

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

✓ ready to run | spider-browser | TypeScript

Fetch API

Structured data endpoint

Extract structured JSON from uct.ac.za with a single POST request. AI-configured selectors, cached for fast repeat calls.

POST /fetch/uct.ac.za/

DescriptionImageLinksSite DescriptionSite ImageSite Links

Try it Fetch API Docs

curl

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/uct.ac.za/ \
  -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/uct.ac.za/",
    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/uct.ac.za/", {
  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