Yahoo Finance Scraper
Spider read finance.yahoo.com in 186 ms without a browser and returned 222 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Trump tries again to limit birthright citizenship", "Why do high-earning former athletes keep going broke?" and "How much has the cost of common grocery items risen?".
### SpaceX stock sank 50%. Retail investors piled in.The Chart of the Day shows how retail investors keep buying dips in SpaceX shares, most recently this week after the company's first earnings report.### Trump could net big tax windfall in crypto bill divestiture plan### Trump tries again to limit birthright citizenshipThe Wall Street Journal • 4h ago### Why do high-earning former athletes keep going broke?### Jamie Dimon says AI build-out could help unleash 'skunk at the party'### How much has the cost of common grocery items risen?### Dow slips from record as Treasury yields rise, earnings roll on### Iran seeks to bar US ships in Hormuz as deal with Oman advancesLIVE ### Mixed labor data sets stage for Friday's jobs report### Ford's new Fathom is its cheap EV pickup, starting at $28,350### Defense tech Hadrian raises $1.37B at $8B valuation### Alphabet's jumbo bond sale draws $115 billion in demand### OpenAI says Apple's security practices undermine its case### Why the SanDisk post-earnings sell-off looks absurd### IOVA heads for best day in 6 years on buyout buzz### SoundHound AI posts record quarter, stock soars 20%### Microsoft vs. Broadcom: which AI stock is the better buy?### JPMorgan resets SpaceX price Target after earnings### Magnite jumps 18%, AppLovin crashes 20% in ad-tech split### How 1 59-year-old lost $170,000 of a $640K 401(k) to the IRS### Western Digital may be 49% undervalued after AI storage talks## Watch Now### Why this SpaceX shareholder isn't selling on stock unlock dayMore than 900 million SpaceX (SPCX) shares will be available for holders to sell for the first time since IPO day.Space Capital CEO and founder Chad Anderson explains why he sees this as a "great moment."## More Videos### Alphabet's $25B debt sale underscores hyperscalers' AI arms race### Krispy Kreme CEO details turnaround strategy after earningsThe 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 finance.yahoo.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://finance.yahoo.com/most-active/");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();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://finance.yahoo.com/most-active/");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const stocks = [];
document.querySelectorAll("table tbody tr").forEach(el => {
const symbol = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(1) a")?.textContent?.trim();
const name = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(2)")?.textContent?.trim();
const price = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(3) fin-streamer")?.textContent?.trim();
const change = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(4) fin-streamer")?.textContent?.trim();
const volume = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(5) fin-streamer")?.textContent?.trim();
if (symbol) stocks.push({ symbol, name, price, change, volume });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: stocks.length, stocks: stocks.slice(0, 20) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();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 finance.yahoo.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.001696 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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