Wiktionary Scraper
Spider read wiktionary.org in 914 ms without a browser and returned 489 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Wiktionaries in other languages" and "Other Wikimedia projects".
1. Any of the about 250 species of flowering plant of the genus*Nepeta*, familyLamiaceae, certain of which are said to have medicinalqualities.1. *Nepeta cataria* and *Nepeta grandiflora* (and perhaps other species), which are well-known for causing an apparentlyharmlesspheromone-basedintoxication among certaincats.2. (figurative) Something that causesexcitement or interest.Tomorrow is International Cat Day, an annual celebration to raise awareness for cats and learn about ways to help and protect them.* [Leave feedback](<https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary:Feedback&action=edit§ion=new&preload=Wiktionary:Feedback/preload&editintro=Wiktionary:Feedback/intro&preloadtitle=Word of the day: [[catnip]]>)Foreign word of the day in Ket* About Foreign Word of the Day* [Leave feedback](<https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary:Feedback&action=edit§ion=new&preload=Wiktionary:Feedback/preload&editintro=Wiktionary:Feedback/intro&preloadtitle=Foreign word of the day: [[ляӈат]]>)A page containing everything you wanted to know about Wiktionary.A collection of pages for the discussion of Wiktionary and the words it contains.|Things to do • Help • Guidelines### Wiktionaries in other languagesThis is the English-language Wiktionary, where words from all languages are defined in English. For example, see the entry for the French word *dictionnaire*. To find a French definition of that word, visit the equivalent page in the French Wiktionary.Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian) •srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски (Serbo-Croatian) •Bahasa Hulontalo (Gorontalo) •Lëtzebuergesch (Luxembourgish) •norsk nynorsk (Norwegian Nynorsk) •Bikol Central (Central Bikol) •hornjoserbsce (Upper Sorbian) •ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ ⵜⴰⵏⴰⵡⴰⵢⵜ (Standard Moroccan Tamazight) •### Other Wikimedia projectsThe 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 wiktionary.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://wiktionary.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.wiktionary.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 wiktionary.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000275 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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