Washington Post Scraper

Extract political news, investigations, and editorial content from The Washington Post including multimedia data. Built on spider-browser .

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

POST /fetch/washingtonpost.com/

return_format

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

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

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

# Washington Post Scraper

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

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

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

washingtonpost-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

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

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const articles = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("[data-feature-id='homepage/story']").forEach(el => {
    const headline = el.querySelector("h2, h3")?.textContent?.trim();
    const link = el.querySelector("a")?.href;
    const author = el.querySelector("[data-qa='author-name']")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (headline) articles.push({ headline, link, author });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: articles.length, articles: articles.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);

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

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/washingtonpost.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/washingtonpost.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/washingtonpost.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);