GET abs.gov.au HTTP 200161 ms2.9 KB$0.000177 captured Aug 7, 2026

abs.gov.au, as data

One API turns any abs.gov.au page into markdown, structured JSON, its link graph or a screenshot, and crawls the whole site the same way. The panel shows the real response we captured.

target profile from the capture

Render mode: Plain HTTP, no browser needed
Response: HTTP 200 in 161 ms
Page size: 2.9 KB of markdown, 76 lines
Fields: Title, Department, Date, Description
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

Start scraping abs.gov.au See the code

Free balance on signup, no card. This abs.gov.au page cost $0.000177 to fetch.

response 200 · 161 ms · 2.9 KB

# Australian Bureau of Statistics### Population 27,801,023 31 December 2025 Estimated resident population### Consumer price index 3.8% Annual change June 2026 All groups, original### Gross domestic product 0.3% Quarterly change Mar 2026 Chain volume measure, seasonally adjusted### Average weekly earnings $2,051.10 November 2025 Full-time adults ordinary time### Unemployment rate 4.4% June 2026 Seasonally Adjusted### ABS Data Strategy 2025-30 Explore the refreshed ABS Data Strategy### Join the Census team Field Officer jobs are available in metropolitan, regional and remote locations across Australia### It’s time to complete your Census Census night is Tuesday 11 August. You can complete online, on paper or with help from us### Data by region Explore key statistics by geographical area### Media centre Browse our media releases and find out the latest ABS news.### Life Course Data Initiative New insights on frequency, patterns and outcomes of children's residential moves## Articles### Spotlight - Understanding housing classifications in ABS Building StatisticsView article](https://abs.gov.au/articles/spotlight-understanding-housing-classifications-abs-building-statistics)### Underemployment and underutilisation 'u-series', June 2026View article](https://abs.gov.au/articles/underemployment-and-underutilisation-u-series-june-2026)### Understanding child mobility in Australia, 2006-2021View article](https://abs.gov.au/articles/understanding-child-mobility-australia-2006-2021)The Australian Bureau of Statistics acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to their cultures and Elders,past andpresent.

POST /scrape · abs.gov.au/index.md · markdown · 76 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on abs.gov.au

Same key, five endpoints. The numbers under a cell were measured on this page.

/scrape

Page to markdown

Clean text for RAG and LLM context, boilerplate removed. The lane that runs without a key.

161 ms · $0.000177

/fetch

Page to JSON

Spider reads the page and names the fields. Pass your own schema when you need exact keys.

/crawl

Whole site

Follows abs.gov.au's own links, respects robots, streams pages as they land.

/links

Link graph

Every internal and external URL on a page, before you decide what to fetch.

/screenshot

Rendered capture

Real Chromium, full-page PNG. The same call also returns the rendered HTML.

The call behind the panel

This request produced the response above. Paste it with your key and you get the same bytes.

request scrape.sh

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://abs.gov.au/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://abs.gov.au/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])

import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";

const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://abs.gov.au/", {
  return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What abs.gov.au costs

Multiplied from the measured 2.9 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 2.9 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000177

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.005315

1,000 pages this size 2.8 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.18

10,000 pages this size 28.2 MB at the measured price ≈ $1.77

1 GB of transfer costs $1, plus $0.001 per CPU minute, and failed requests cost $0. Crawling daily? The Unlimited plan is a flat monthly rate.

Point this at the rest of abs.gov.au.

The capture above took 161 ms and cost $0.000177. The same call takes any URL on abs.gov.au.

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