Web scraping, simplified.

Understanding how news, blog, and social media behavior is changing in real-time is critically important to understanding and reaching savvy digital audiences. However, even basic web crawling and data extraction operations like link unwinding and text extraction are complex and hard to get right. The arachn.io API puts this data directly in your hands.

The only web scraping API you'll ever need

Parse

Parse URLs and hostnames into their component parts to detect outlinks, deduplicate shares, and more.

Unwind

Convert short links, like go.nasa.gov/3QIXfBy, into their fully-unwound, canonical representations.

Extract

Extract article body content and structured metadata from public webpages, not just full-page HTML.

{
  "link": {
    "original": {
      "link": "https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/science/spiders-misinformation-rumors.html",
      "scheme": "https",
      "authority": {
        "host": {
          "type": "domain",
          "domain": {
            "registrySuffix": "com",
            "publicSuffix": "nytimes.com",
            "hostname": "www.nytimes.com"
          }
        },
        "port": null
      },
      "path": "/2022/08/25/science/spiders-misinformation-rumors.html",
      "queryParameters": []
    },
    "unwound": {
      "link": "https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/science/spiders-misinformation-rumors.html",
      "scheme": "https",
      "authority": {
        "host": {
          "type": "domain",
          "domain": {
            "registrySuffix": "com",
            "publicSuffix": "nytimes.com",
            "hostname": "www.nytimes.com"
          }
        },
        "port": null
      },
      "path": "/2022/08/25/science/spiders-misinformation-rumors.html",
      "queryParameters": []
    },
    "outcome": "success2xx",
    "canonical": true
  },
  "entity": {
    "entityType": "webpage",
    "webpageType": "article",
    "title": "Spiders Are Caught in a Global Web of Misinformation",
    "thumbnail": {
      "url": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/08/24/science/00SCI-SPIDERLIES-01/00SCI-SPIDERLIES-01-facebookJumbo-v2.jpg",
      "width": null,
      "height": null
    },
    "description": "Researchers looked at thousands of spider news stories to study how sensationalized information spreads. Their findings could be broadly applicable.",
    "keywords": null,
    "author": null,
    "publishedAt": "2022-08-25T13:43:50Z",
    "modifiedAt": "2022-08-25T16:15:34Z",
    "bodyHtml": "<p>We live in a world filled with spiders. And fear of spiders. They crawl around our minds as much as they crawl around our closets, reducing the population of insects that would otherwise bug us. Is that one in the corner, unassumingly spinning its web, venomous? Will it attack me? Should I kill it? Could it be - no, it can't be - but, maybe it is - a <em>black widow?</em></p>\n<p>Catherine Scott, an arachnologist at McGill University, is familiar with the bad rap spiders get. When she tells people what she does, she is often presented with a story about \"that one time a spider bit me.\" The thing is, she says, if you don't see a crushed up spider near you, or see one on your body, it's likely that the bite mark on your skin came from something else. There are more than 50,000 known species of spiders in the world, and only a few can harm humans.</p>\n<p>\"Even medical professionals don't always have the best information, and they very often misdiagnose bites,\" Dr. Scott said.</p>\n<p>It turns out that these fears and misunderstandings of our eight-legged friends are <a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01197-6\" rel=\"nofollow\">reflected in the news</a>. Recently, more than 60 researchers from around the world, including Dr. Scott, collected 5,348 news stories about spider bites, published online from 2010 through 2020 from 81 countries in 40 languages. They read through each story, noting whether any had factual errors or emotionally fraught language. The percentage of articles they rated sensationalistic: 43 percent. The percentage of articles that had factual errors: 47 percent.</p>",
    "bodyText": "We live in a world filled with spiders. And fear of spiders. They crawl around our minds as much as they crawl around our closets, reducing the population of insects that would otherwise bug us. Is that one in the corner, unassumingly spinning its web, venomous? Will it attack me? Should I kill it? Could it be - no, it can't be - but, maybe it is - a black widow? Catherine Scott, an arachnologist at McGill University, is familiar with the bad rap spiders get. When she tells people what she does, she is often presented with a story about \"that one time a spider bit me.\" The thing is, she says, if you don't see a crushed up spider near you, or see one on your body, it's likely that the bite mark on your skin came from something else. There are more than 50,000 known species of spiders in the world, and only a few can harm humans. \"Even medical professionals don't always have the best information, and they very often misdiagnose bites,\" Dr. Scott said. It turns out that these fears and misunderstandings of our eight-legged friends are reflected in the news. Recently, more than 60 researchers from around the world, including Dr. Scott, collected 5,348 news stories about spider bites, published online from 2010 through 2020 from 81 countries in 40 languages. They read through each story, noting whether any had factual errors or emotionally fraught language. The percentage of articles they rated sensationalistic: 43 percent. The percentage of articles that had factual errors: 47 percent.",
    "bodyLinks": [
      {
        "href": {
          "link": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01197-6",
          "scheme": "https",
          "authority": {
            "host": {
              "type": "domain",
              "domain": {
                "registrySuffix": "com",
                "publicSuffix": "nature.com",
                "hostname": "www.nature.com"
              }
            },
            "port": null
          },
          "path": "/articles/s41597-022-01197-6",
          "queryParameters": []
        },
        "rel": null,
        "outlink": true,
        "anchorText": "reflected in the news"
      }
    ]
  }
}
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