Ugent Scraper
Spider read ugent.be in 220 ms without a browser and returned 53 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Informatie voor", "Populair" and "De UGent zet al meer dan".
## Informatie voor## Populair# De UGent zet al meer dan## In de kijkerGent in technologische wereldtop: UGent als motor van kennis, innovatie en ondernemerschapGent behoort tot de wereldtop van technologiesteden. In de Global Tech Ecosystem Index van Dealroom staat de stad op plaats 10 wereldwijd, en op plaats 4 in Europa.## NieuwsTwee ERC Advanced Grants voor UGent-onderzoek naar kleurbeleving en kindermigratieEen nieuw partnerschap transformeert het levenslanglerenlandschap in Vlaanderen## Agenda* aug 27 Summer school 'Diversity at the workplace'* aug 27 Lezing 'Meet the Expert - Organisation of Primary Care in Scotland'* sep 7 Symposium '35th Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials'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 ugent.be.
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://ugent.be");
// 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.ugent.be", {
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 ugent.be costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000063 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.
- Free balance on signup
- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
Run it keyless, no account
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Start scraping ugent.be.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.