Wikipedia Scraper
Spider read wikipedia.com in 1.8 s without a browser and returned 562 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Did you know", "In the news" and "On this day".
## Did you know ...* ... that actress **Aimee La Joie** *(pictured)* portrayed an entire film crew in *The Film Crew*?* ... that the largest **in-orbit fragmentation** event was a Chinese anti-satellite missile test in 2007 that released some 3,500 debris fragments?* ... that sales of a book honoring **Popó Vaz**, a police officer, were to be donated to transgender-rights organizations?* ... that **John M. Klineberg** commuted to NASA in a Corvette Stingray) every day until his retirement?* ... that **a 19th-century English poem** has been interpreted as the poet's expression of his "fury against Russia"?* ... that in-game items for ***Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 3*** were distributed via trading cards?* ... that **Niall Garbh O'Donnell**, Lord of Tyrconnell, stole his cousin's cattle for surrendering to the Crown?* ... that the earliest predecessors of **U.S. Route 101 in California** were 16th-century "royal roads" built by the Spanish?* ... that, according to some legends, **King Eiso)** was born after his mother dreamed that she was impregnated by the Sun?## In the news* **Shootings** at Debsirin School and a residence in Nonthaburi province, Thailand, leave at least nine people dead.* **An avalanche** on Broad Peak *(pictured)* in Pakistan kills ten climbers.* **About 80,000 migrants cross** the Morocco–Spain border at Ceuta, leading to at least 111 deaths.* **A magnitude 6.8 earthquake** strikes Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, leaving at least 38 people dead.## On this day* 685 BC – Spring and Autumn period: Amid a succession dispute, the forces of Duke Zhuang of Lu), who was attempting to install a claimant to the Qi) throne, were defeated at the **Battle of Qianshi**.* 1695 – The foundation for what is now known as the **Wren Building**, the oldest surviving college building in the United States, was laid in a ceremony at Middle Plantation, Virginia. 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 wikipedia.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://wikipedia.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.wikipedia.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 wikipedia.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000403 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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