GET archive.is HTTP 200190 ms9.4 KB$0.000039 captured Aug 7, 2026

archive.is, as data

One API turns any archive.is 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 190 ms
Page size: 9.4 KB of markdown, 22 lines
Fields: Title, Content, Date, Source and 1 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This archive.is page cost $0.000039 to fetch.

response 200 · 190 ms · 9.4 KB

archive.today webpage captureMy url is alive and I want to archive its content**Archive.today** is a time capsule for web pages!It takes a 'snapshot' of a webpage that will always be online even if the original page disappears.It saves a text and a graphical copy of the page for better accuracyand provides a short and reliable link to an unalterable record of any web pageincluding those from Web 2.0 sites:* https://archive.is/2020.04.21/rt.live/* https://archive.is/2014.06.26/google.com/maps/…This can be useful if you want to take a 'snapshot' of a page which could change soon: price list, job offer, real estate listing, drunk blog post, ...Saved pages will have no active elements and no scripts, so they keep you safe as they cannot have any popups or malware!I want to search the archive for saved snapshots* microsoft.comfor snapshots from the host microsoft.com* *.microsoft.comfor snapshots from microsoft.com and all its subdomains (e.g. www.microsoft.com)* http://twitter.com/burgerkingfor snapshots from exact url (search is case-sensitive)* http://twitter.com/burg*for snapshots from urls starting with http://twitter.com/burg

POST /scrape · archive.is/index.md · markdown · Showing 16 of 22 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on archive.is

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.

190 ms · $0.000039

/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 archive.is'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://archive.is/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What archive.is costs

Multiplied from the measured 9.4 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 9.4 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000039

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.001163

1,000 pages this size 9.2 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.04

10,000 pages this size 91.7 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.39

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.

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The capture above took 190 ms and cost $0.000039. The same call takes any URL on archive.is.

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