USA Today Scraper

Extract national news, sports scores, and lifestyle content from USA Today including interactive data features. Built on spider-browser .

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target
usatoday.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/usatoday.com/

return_format

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/usatoday.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://usatoday.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "headline": "string",
    "author": "string",
    "published_date": "string",
    "section": "string",
    "article_body": "string",
    "summary": "string",
    "image_url": "string",
    "tags": "string"
  }
}

# USA Today Scraper

**Headline**: string
**Author**: string
**Published date**: string
**Section**: string
**Article body**: string
**Summary**: string
**Image URL**: string
**Tags**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from usatoday.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

usatoday-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;

// Scrape homepage story links
await page.goto("https://www.usatoday.com");
const stories = await page.$$eval("a[href*='/story/']", (links) =>
  links.slice(0, 10).map((a) => ({ title: a.textContent?.trim(), href: a.href }))
);
console.log("Stories:", stories);

// Scrape a single article
await page.goto("https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/15/national-weather");

const data = await page.extractFields({
  headline: "h1",
  author: "a[href*='/staff/'], [rel='author'], a[href*='/author/']",
  date: "time[datetime]",
  summary: "article header p, h2",
  body: "article [itemprop='articleBody'], article > p",
  image: { selector: "article img, picture img", attribute: "src" },
});

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

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/usatoday.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/usatoday.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/usatoday.com/", {
  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);