USA Today Scraper
Spider read usatoday.com in 132 ms without a browser and returned 50 lines of clean markdown.
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The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on usatoday.com.
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.usatoday.com");
// 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!,
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();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 usatoday.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000386 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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