GET arstechnica.com/science HTTP 200199 ms25.9 KB$0.000365 captured Aug 7, 2026
Arstechnica, as data
One API turns any Arstechnica 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.
- Render mode
- Plain HTTP, no browser needed
- Response
- HTTP 200 in 199 ms
- Page size
- 25.9 KB of markdown, 434 lines
- Fields
- Title, Authors, Abstract, Journal and 1 more
- Captured
- Aug 7, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This Arstechnica page cost $0.000365 to fetch.
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Same key, five endpoints. The numbers under a cell were measured on this page.
Page to markdown
Clean text for RAG and LLM context, boilerplate removed. The lane that runs without a key.
199 ms · $0.000365Page to JSON
Spider reads the page and names the fields. Pass your own schema when you need exact keys.
Whole site
Follows arstechnica.com/science's own links, respects robots, streams pages as they land.
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.
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://arstechnica.com/science/", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://arstechnica.com/science/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://arstechnica.com/science/", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What Arstechnica costs
Multiplied from the measured 25.9 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.
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 arstechnica.com/science.
The capture above took 199 ms and cost $0.000365. The same call takes any URL on arstechnica.com/science.