Washingtonian Scraper
Spider read washingtonian.com in 141 ms without a browser and returned 220 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Our Guide to Caring for Your Pet", "50 Years of DC’s Iconic Metro" and "Make the Most of Fall With These Easy Getaways From DC".
### Our Guide to Caring for Your PetThey’re more than just companions. They’ve become members of the family, worthy of luxe meals, fun excursions, and, yes, birthday parties.](https://washingtonian.com/2026/03/11/dc-metro-rail-wmata-history/)### 50 Years of DC’s Iconic MetroAs our region’s iconic rail system turns 50, we ask the big questions—and some little ones, too.](https://washingtonian.com/2026/02/02/how-washingtonians-are-taking-care-of-each-other-during-trump-administration/)### How Washingtonians Are Taking Care of Each Other During Trump IIDuring a tough time, many locals are taking care of one another and the city. Here’s a look at some of the people standing up...](https://washingtonian.com/2025/09/11/make-the-most-of-fall-with-these-easy-getaways-from-dc/)### Make the Most of Fall With These Easy Getaways From DCIt’s a great time of year for a weekend escape. Here’s where to find colorful leaves, idyllic country inns, seasonal vintage markets, and more autumn...### Longreads### Inside DC’s Troubled Psychiatric Hospital: “This Place Is Actually Trauma-Inducing”Lawsuits, former workers, and patients of Psychiatric Institute of Washington allege the facility is rife with violence, misconduct, and systemic dysfunction—all in the service of...### What Happens After We Die? These UVA Researchers Are Investigating It.When our bodies perish, can our consciousness persist? At the University of Virginia, researchers are searching for answers, one near-death experience at a time.### Meet the Lobbyist Fighting Against “Perfectly Legal” Corruption in DCGood government advocate Craig Holman has spent decades battling against the power of big money and special interests in Washington politics. These days, his work...### This DC-Area Lawyer Wants More Americans Betting on ElectionsThe 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 washingtonian.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://washingtonian.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 { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const spider = new Spider({ apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY! });
const result = await spider.scrapeUrl("https://www.washingtonian.com", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(result);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 washingtonian.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000394 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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- Balance never expires
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