wikimedia.org · HTTP 200

Wikimedia Scraper

Spider read wikimedia.org in 146 ms without a browser and returned 85 lines of clean markdown.

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Response wikimedia.org/index.md markdown · 85 lines

Welcome! The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely. Join us in making all knowledge available to everyone, everywhere.Our projects are the core of the Wikimedia movement. All major projects are operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, and the content is collaboratively developed by over 260,000 users worldwide using the MediaWiki software.Wikipedia The Free EncyclopediaWiktionary Free dictionaryWikiquote Free quote compendiumCommons Free media collectionWikisource Free content libraryWikiversity Free learning resourcesWikispecies Free content libraryWikidata Free knowledge baseWikifunctions Free function libraryMediaWiki Free & open wiki softwareWikivoyage Free travel guideMeta-Wiki Community coordination & documentationThe Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that hosts all Wikimedia projects and supports communities all over the world who create and curate freely accessible content.Your donation protects the human right to free and open knowledge for everyone.Questions about the Wikimedia Foundation or Wikimedia projects? Get in touch.This page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

Code · Fields · Cost · Run it keyless, no account

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 wikimedia.org.

wikimedia-org-scraper.ts

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://wikimedia.org");

// 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.wikimedia.org", {
  return_format: "markdown",
});

console.log(result);

ready to run · spider-browser, no selectors

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Fields you can pull.

HeadlineSummaryAuthorPublished DateCategoryArticle URL

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 wikimedia.org costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000092 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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Run it keyless, no account

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://wikimedia.org/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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