University of Cape Town Homepage Scraper
Spider read uct.ac.za in 114 ms without a browser and returned 393 lines of clean markdown, including the section "University of Cape Town".
# University of Cape Town* University research institutes* UN Global Compact: Communication on Engagement report* Report on Research to Senate & Council* Postdoctoral research fellowships* New PDRF enrollments & reactivation* PGFO postdoc administration office contact* Recruitment, development & retention* Discrimination, harassment & violence* Office for lnclusivity & Change (OIC)* Transformation Office contacts* University Panel for Responsible Investment* Buildings & their sustainability impacts* Carbon emissions, transportation, & land use & biodiversity* Transforming curriculum & research* Khusela Ikamva Sustainable Campus Project* Virtual Un/Sustainable Campus Tour* Integrated Development Framework* Buildings, departments & officesAfrican higher education leaders to develop All-Africa RankingsUCT, in partnership with AppliedHE, will co-host the All-Africa Higher Education XChange from 31 Aug to 1 Sept 2026, asking: What should excellence in African higher education look like, and how should Africa define it?Join the University of Cape Town and Bristol University at the 2026 Times Higher Education (THE) World Academic Summit (WAS) - hosted for the first time in Africa.UCT remains Africa’s leading university in QS rankingsUCT has been ranked Africa's leading university and 184th globally in the QS World University Rankings 2027, placing it among the world's top 2% of institutions and maintaining a top-200 global position for the fourth consecutive year.Undergraduate applications closing soonApplications for admission to study at UCT in 2027 for all programmes are open. Undergraduate applications close on 31 July and postgraduate applications on 30 September.UCT leads Africa in two major international rankingsGeography and Public Health stand out for UCT in the latest world rankings of academic subjects.UCT Official Merchandise Winter SaleUp to 50% off on selected items.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 uct.ac.za.
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");
// 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.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 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 uct.ac.za costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000379 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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