University of Michigan Scraper
Spider read umich.edu in 107 ms without a browser and returned 149 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Featured Stories", "Knee exoskeletons for arthritis relief, mobility" and "Ode to the aeronauts".
## Featured StoriesU-M alum Brendan LaFrenier ran 200 miles across Michigan in four days, from Lake St. Clair to Lake Michigan, raising more than $33,000 for homeless shelters across the state. With his friend and U-M alum Nick DelFranco, LaFrenier co-founded Endurance for Change, which combines endurance, film making, and community service.## Knee exoskeletons for arthritis relief, mobilityBuilding on the success of projects to boost strength by adding motors to conventional knee, hip and ankle braces, a University of Michigan team is exploring how well this approach could work for relieving knee pain from osteoarthritis.Learn more about this research**## Ode to the aeronautsUp, Up, and Away: A History of Ballooning in America, invites visitors to journey into the remarkable history of ballooning—an era of daring invention, public spectacle, and new ways of seeing the world. This exhibit examines the history of balloon flight in the United States from Blanchard’s first ascension in 1793 to the early 20th century, when ballooning became part of popular culture.Learn more about the exhibit**## Community co-designed wave energy prototypesResearchers from U-M Engineering went to Beaver Island to demo prototype wave energy converters during the Island’s 11th annual sustainability fair. But this wasn’t a generic technology demonstration—the U-M team had designed their prototypes based on use cases envisioned by Beaver Island residents.* *19 schools and colleges — see complete list*see complete list**### Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs ProjectFormed a decade ago to connect Detroit businesses with University of Michigan expertise, the Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project is leveraging AI to augment its human help.Learn more about this project**### News* Cyclospora: Questions, confusion return as Michigan reports 2 deaths* About 4 in 10 Michiganders struggle to afford basic needs, same as last yearThe 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 umich.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://www.umich.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 { 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.umich.edu");
const data = await page.extractFields({
contact_info: "ul.contact li",
contact_us: "a[href^="/contact/"]",
logo: "h1.logo",
logo_text: "h1.logo a",
phone: "li.phone span",
privacy_notice: "a[href^="/about/"]",
});
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 umich.edu costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000126 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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