Hacker News Stories Scraper
Spider read ycombinator.com in 295 ms without a browser and returned 371 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Be in the room with …" and "All partners were".
Brian, Joe, and Nate did YC in W09.YC compresses months of growth into weeks.The sense of urgency is so infectious among founders that it becomes the most productive period in most people’s lives.It’s a community of founders that you can’t find anywhere else.It feels like having the entire world at your back—from Partners to batchmates.Being surrounded by the top 1% of founders in the world just completely resets the bar.You leave with a completely new sense of how fast ‘fast’ can be.## Be in the room with …## All partners wereGarry TanPosterous, S08 Co-founder of Posterous (acquired by Twitter) and Initialized Capital. Early engineer at Palantir, designed company logo.Harj TaggarAuctomatic, W07 Co-founder and CEO of Triplebyte (acquired by Karat) and Auctomatic (acquired by Live Current Media). Graduated from Oxford.Jared FriedmanScribd, S06 Co-founder of Scribd, one of the top 100 sites on the web. Harvard CS dropout.Aaron EpsteinCreative Market, W10 Co-founder of Creative Market, generating over $100M in sales for independent creators worldwide.Diana HuEscher Reality, S17 Co-founder and CTO of Escher Reality (acquired by Niantic). Shipped AR tech for Pokémon GO to 100M+ users and grew up in Chile.Gustaf AlströmerHeysan, W07 Led Growth at Airbnb for 4.5 years. Co-founder of Heysan. Previously Head of Growth at Voxer.Nicolas DessaigneAlgolia, W14 Co-founder of Algolia, a Search API used by millions of developers. PhD in Computer Science.Tom BlomfieldGoCardless, S11 Co-founder of Monzo (£500M raised, 10% UK population). Founded GoCardless. Awarded OBE in 2019.Brad FloraPerfect Audience, S11 Co-founder and CEO of Perfect Audience (acquired by Marin Software). Active angel investor and Slate contributor.Pete KoomenOptimizely, W10 Co-founder of Optimizely, grew to $100M+ ARR before acquisition. Master’s in CS from UIUC.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 ycombinator.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://www.ycombinator.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 { 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://www.ycombinator.com");
const data = await page.extractFields({
site_footer: "footer",
site_header: "header",
});
console.log(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 ycombinator.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000468 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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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.