Wikinews Scraper
Spider read wikinews.org in 1.5 s without a browser and returned 479 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Attribution".
* A short paragraph should ideally be only **one or two sentences**, or three if they're very short sentences* Each paragraph covers a **single topic only*** In longer articles, avoid uniformly very short paragraphs, which may produce a bullet-like effect interfering with article flow* **Concentrate on the new facts** and their known or potential consequence — background information is of lesser importance (aka exposition))Visual representation of the inverted pyramid style for a news article.Image: US Air Force Departmental Publishing Office.* Put the **most important and newsworthy facts first**, with least important and least immediate facts last — this is opposite to development order in typical narratives, and is termed **inverted-pyramid style*** Use punchy, **active language** to intone a sense of immediacy* Be **clear, concise and unambiguous*** Promote the **human aspects** of any story, using **quotes** etc. — this makes the story interesting to a wider range of people* Ascribe any speculation to a source — never introduce any of your ownIf you find your work is too wordy, try juggling word order to squeeze out unnecessary words. You may be surprised how many you can find! This gets easier with practice. Other users are likely to help you out.The reason for *inverted-pyramid* style is twofold;* To help the reader, who is usually in a hurry when reading news. Putting the important and new aspects first helps, since they may skip the story after only a couple of paragraphs.* To help people who are editing your story later. We appreciate stories with plenty of details, but we still like short, punchy stories are preferable to rambling essays.### AttributionWhen adding opinions, unverified claims, speculation and the like it should always be attributed to the person or organisation that said it; 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 wikinews.org.
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://wikinews.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.wikinews.org", {
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 wikinews.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000304 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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