Guides

Learn to Crawl and Scrape the Web

Practical guides for collecting web data with Spider — from your first crawl to production-grade pipelines.

  • Extract contact information from any website using Spider's AI-powered pipeline. Emails, phone numbers, and more.

    Jeff Mendez ·
    • developers
    • web-scraping

    Website Archiving

    Archive web pages with Spider. Capture full page resources, automate regular crawls, and store content for long-term access.

    Jeff Mendez ·
  • Route requests through Spider's proxy front-end for easy integration with third-party tools.

    Jeff Mendez ·
  • Three methods for crawling pages behind login walls: cookies, execution scripts, and AI-driven actions.

    Jeff Mendez ·
  • Build a research agent that searches the web with Spider, evaluates results, and forms answers with OpenAI.

    William Espegren ·
    • serp
    • web-scraping

    Spider Search (SERP)

    Search the web and optionally scrape results in a single API call. Built for LLM pipelines, agents, and data collection.

    Jeff Mendez ·
    • developers
    • open-source
    • rust

    The Spider Open Source Ecosystem

    A guide to all open source Spider projects — the core crawler, browser client, HTML transformer, TLS fingerprinting, and more. Quick-start examples for each.

    Jeff Mendez ·

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