Wtop Scraper
Spider read wtop.com in 120 ms without a browser and returned 645 lines of clean markdown.
DC, MD & VA News, Traffic & WeatherPolice in Alexandria want to unleash the power of their Dog Walker Watch programPrince William County group offers Va. dads a way to make new friendsUnderground pumping station keeps sewage from Potomac River in AlexandriaConstruction at Alexandria City Hall raises concerns for Old Town retailersAlexandria urges parents to avoid last-minute rush for school vaccines3 tornadoes touched down in Anne Arundel County during Tuesday’s storms19 hospitalized by suspected food-related illness at Laurel youth academyBody of missing boater in Maryland’s Rock Creek recovered, identifiedMaryland teen killed at Battle of Camden identified 246 years later through DNATraffic detours continue around Glen Burnie office tower deemed unsafeFormer Va. State Sen. Janet Howell, who represented Fairfax County, dies at 82‘A beautiful art form’: DC-area resident shares her love of cigars with othersNorthern Virginia students build AI tool to help aspiring entrepreneursAfter Reagan National midair collision probe, NTSB chair urges Congress to actFrom overlooked to everywhere, ube is now one of the trendiest culinary flavorsPreakness shifting back to three weeks and a day after the Kentucky Derby, to be run on a SundayJudge dismisses Dali owner’s lawsuit against shipbuilder over Key Bridge collapseRavens’ Derrick Henry enters season No. 11 and says he isn’t thinking about retirementPhillies play the Orioles looking to break road skidJohns Hopkins researcher detained by ICE transferred to rural LouisianaAmazon abandons plans for data center campus at Md.’s Calvert Cliffs nuclear plantData center frustrations cause upheaval in Maryland county primaries14 Maryland high school students named at semifinalists for US Presidential Scholars program‘Nothing but bone and skin’: DoorDash driver flags case of elder abuse in Calvert Co.‘I need help, my baby is choking’: Maryland troopers jump into action to save infantThe 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 wtop.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://wtop.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.wtop.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 wtop.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000452 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.
- Free balance on signup
- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
Run it keyless, no account
More Directories scrapers.
Spotify Main Page Scraper
Extract structured data from Spotify Main Page with automated CSS selectors.
Roblox Landing Page Scraper
Roblox landing page metadata and cookie banner information.
Mozilla Homepage Data Scraper
A scraper for extracting all useful data from the Mozilla homepage, including site metadata, navigation, and content.
Start scraping wtop.com.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.