Vox Scraper
Spider read vox.com in 224 ms without a browser and returned 447 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Making sense of it all", "Politics" and "Even Better".
## Making sense of it all:1. The FDA approved the first mRNA vaccine for the flu, which will make it easier to target particularly virulent strains of the virus.2. A Senate committee voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt for refusing to answer questions about the Covid pandemic. The committee can now recommend the Justice Department prosecute him.3. The FAA orders an inspection of hundreds of Boeing 737 Max jets for cracks in a part that connects wings to fuselages.4. Edgy vanity license plates in Virginia are testing the limits of the First Amendment and the messages that people can display in a Supreme Court case.A socialist candidate criticized Thanksgiving — and unearthed a deeper debate on the leftSome of Francesca Hong’s fans are gently asking: Does she have a “woke 1.0” problem?Is the US running out of missiles?Hackers just broke into America’s tap waterThe FOMO of not seeing The Odyssey in 70 mm IMAXThe people who got rich disrupting your life want to helpWhat an Abdul El-Sayed win means for Muslim voters## PoliticsAbdul El-Sayed’s win tees up the first true swing-state test for the Bernie leftThe roots of Abdul El-Sayed’s campaignAll the president’s construction projects## Even BetterHow to tolerate uncertainty in a world that’s full of itWhat’s the difference between fashionably late and straight-up rude? We asked three experts.Should you cancel those plans? Here are 5 questions to help you decide.The glorious burden of stockpiling little glass jarsThe iPhone lease is too good to be true## Future PerfectInside the meat industry’s push to ban drones over factory farmsThe truth about rent controlThe simple idea that helped prevent millions of traffic deaths## Most Popular1. Hackers just broke into America’s tap water2. Take a mental break with the newest Vox crossword3. The Air Quality Index and how to use it, explained4. All the president’s construction projects5. The FOMO of not seeing The Odyssey in 70 mm IMAXThe 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 vox.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.vox.com/technology");
// 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.vox.com/technology");
await page.content(8000);
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const articles = [];
document.querySelectorAll("article, [class*='entry'], h2 a[href*='/20']").forEach(el => {
const headline = el.querySelector("h2 a")?.textContent?.trim();
const link = el.querySelector("h2 a")?.href;
const author = el.querySelector("[rel='author'], a[href*='/authors/']")?.textContent?.trim();
const excerpt = el.querySelector("p:first-of-type")?.textContent?.trim();
if (headline) articles.push({ headline, link, author, excerpt });
});
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 vox.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.001567 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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