Vice News Scraper
Spider read vice.com in 2.4 s without a browser and returned 119 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Duncan Fallowell", "More" and "3 No-Skip Pop-Punk Albums Turning 20 This Year".
# Duncan Fallowell**What is your favourite type of reader?Going as Far as I Can: The Ultimate Travel Book* by Duncan Fallowell is out now, published by Profile Books.*News, Stuff, The Fiction Issue 2009, Vice Blog, VICE Magazine, Volume 16 Issue 12Make Us Preferred In Top Stories## More* (Photo by Gary Gershoff/WireImage)### On This Day 13 Years Ago, Drake Released the Best Song of His Career### This Discreet Lockable Sex Toy Bag Is the Nightstand Upgrade Your Play Drawer NeedsBy Sam Watanuki | Reviewed by Ysolt Usigan* Photo by Scott Gries/Getty Images### 3 No-Skip Pop-Punk Albums Turning 20 This Year### How To Stack Fleshlight’s Mix & Match, Build Your Own Combo Sales Up To 30%* (Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)### So, Uh, One of the Songs of the Summer Was Made With AI After All—and the Artist Is Not Sorry* (Photo by Marc Broussely/Redferns)### 3 Insufferable Pop Music Tropes That Predate the Gen Alpha Melody### Monoculture is Dead, and Lollapalooza Proved Why That’s Actually a Great Thing### MOOD’s 4th Birthday Sale Ends Today— Get Up to 25% Off Prerolls, Flower, and More While You CanBy Maha Haq | Reviewed by Ysolt Usigan### Two Pokemon TCG Restocks Are Live On Amazon—Catch ‘Em Before They’re Gone* Screenshot: Arrowhead Game Studios### Helldivers 2 Officially Crossing Over with Warhammer 40,000## Kill the ads forVICE membership also gives you access to our very best writing and exclusive new documentaries.You have successfully purchased.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 vice.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.vice.com/en/section/news");
// 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!;
await page.goto("https://www.vice.com/en/section/news");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const articles = [];
document.querySelectorAll("article, .vice-card").forEach(el => {
const headline = el.querySelector("h2 a, h3 a, .vice-card__title a")?.textContent?.trim();
const link = el.querySelector("h2 a, h3 a, .vice-card__title a")?.href;
const author = el.querySelector(".contributor__link, .vice-card__author")?.textContent?.trim();
const dek = el.querySelector(".vice-card__dek, .dek")?.textContent?.trim();
if (headline) articles.push({ headline, link, author, dek });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: articles.length, articles: articles.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(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 vice.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000581 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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