Weather.com Scraper
Spider read weather.com in 3.9 s without a browser and returned 34 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Get More of Our News on Google".
ByBrian Donegan•July 8, 2016Updated: July 8, 2016, 12:43 pm EDTPublished: July 8, 2016, 12:43 pm EDTYou've all heard the term "heat index" used in a weather forecast on those hot, humid summer days, but do you know what it actually measures and why it's important to our health?In simplest terms, the heat index is the "feels-like" temperature, or how hot it really feels when the relative humidity is factored in with the actual air temperature.Your body cools itself by the evaporation of persperation from your skin. On a hot, humid day, less evaporation of sweat occurs, diminishing the body's ability to cool itself.## Get More of Our News on GoogleSet The Weather Company as a 'Preferred Source' to get quicker access to the news you value.By looking at the chart above, you can find the heat index temperature by matching the air temperature to the relative humidity. For example, if the air temperature is 94 degrees and the relative humidity is 70 percent, the heat index is 119 degrees.Since official surface temperatures are taken using thermometers shaded from the sun, the NWS notes that actual heat indices can be up to 15 degrees higher in full sunshine than the shade.The red areas on the chart indicate dangerous or extremely dangerous conditions, meaning you should not spend any significant time outdoors because it places you at risk for heat exhaustion and heat stroke. This is why it's very important to pay close attention not just to the air temperature, but also to the heat index on the hottest days of summer.**(MORE: ****Four Things Extreme Heat Does to Your Body****)**The National Weather Service (NWS) issues excessive heat watches, heat advisories or excessive heat warnings when the heat index is expected to reach or exceed 100 to 110 degrees, depending on the local climate, for at least two consecutive days.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 weather.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://weather.com/weather/today/l/40.7128,-74.0060");
// 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!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://weather.com/weather/today/l/40.7128,-74.0060");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const current = {};
current.temperature = document.querySelector("[data-testid='TemperatureValue']")?.textContent?.trim();
current.feelsLike = document.querySelector("[data-testid='FeelsLikeSection'] span")?.textContent?.trim();
current.condition = document.querySelector("[data-testid='wxPhrase']")?.textContent?.trim();
current.humidity = document.querySelector("[data-testid='PercentageValue']")?.textContent?.trim();
current.wind = document.querySelector("[data-testid='Wind']")?.textContent?.trim();
current.uvIndex = document.querySelector("[data-testid='UVIndexValue']")?.textContent?.trim();
return JSON.stringify(current);
})()`);
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 weather.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000493 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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