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GET alibaba.com HTTP 200243 ms136.5 KB$0.000366 captured Aug 7, 2026

alibaba.com, as data

One API turns any alibaba.com 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 243 ms
Page size
136.5 KB of markdown, 79 lines
Fields
Product Name, Price, Description, Image and 1 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This alibaba.com page cost $0.000366 to fetch.

response 200 · 243 ms · 136.5 KB
### Welcome to Alibaba.comCommercial Equipment & MachinerySportswear & Outdoor ApparelConstruction & Building MachineryElectrical Equipment & SuppliesTesting Instrument & Equipment[Frequently searched Smart Watches ](<https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?tab=all&has4Tab=true&SearchText=Smart Watches&categoryId=127684037>) Frequently searched CarsFrequently searched LaptopsRecommended for your businessUS local stock Fastest delivery in 5 days No import charges Explore nowQuick order and pay On-time delivery Money-back guarantee Explore now
POST /scrape · alibaba.com/index.md · markdown · Showing 11 of 79 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on alibaba.com

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.

243 ms · $0.000366
/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 alibaba.com'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://alibaba.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What alibaba.com costs

Multiplied from the measured 136.5 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 136.5 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000366
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.01
1,000 pages this size 133.3 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.37
10,000 pages this size 1333.0 MB at the measured price ≈ $3.66

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 alibaba.com.

The capture above took 243 ms and cost $0.000366. The same call takes any URL on alibaba.com.

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