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GET askubuntu.com HTTP 200256 ms9.2 KB$0.000315 captured Aug 7, 2026

askubuntu.com, as data

One API turns any askubuntu.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 256 ms
Page size
9.2 KB of markdown, 183 lines
Fields
Business Name, Address, Phone, Category
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This askubuntu.com page cost $0.000315 to fetch.

response 200 · 256 ms · 9.2 KB
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POST /scrape · askubuntu.com/index.md · markdown · 183 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on askubuntu.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.

256 ms · $0.000315
/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 askubuntu.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://askubuntu.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What askubuntu.com costs

Multiplied from the measured 9.2 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 9.2 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000315
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.009451
1,000 pages this size 8.9 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.32
10,000 pages this size 89.4 MB at the measured price ≈ $3.15

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 askubuntu.com.

The capture above took 256 ms and cost $0.000315. The same call takes any URL on askubuntu.com.

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