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GET autotrader.com HTTP 2001.9 s5.5 KB$0.000349 captured Aug 7, 2026

autotrader.com, as data

One API turns any autotrader.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 1.9 s
Page size
5.5 KB of markdown, 40 lines
Fields
Vehicle title, Listing price, Mileage, Dealer name and 4 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This autotrader.com page cost $0.000349 to fetch.

response 200 · 1.9 s · 5.5 KB
4. Vehicle must be removed from inventory feed immediately after sold, no later than 24 hours.1. Price must be available to most shoppers.1. No qualifications should be required to receive the price*(e.g.: Military or College Grad rebates should not be reflected in asking price).*2. No financing of any amount or from any party should be required to receive the price.3. The price must be available regardless of payment method*(Price cannot be available to those who pay in some preferred method of payment, e.g.: available only to those who are financing).*4. A trade-in cannot be required to receive the price.5. No minimum down payment or trade-in equity can be required.6. Price may be reduced by a rebate, incentive and/or offer that is available to most buyers without conditions, eligibility or other requirements.1. Price cannot be reduced by a trade-in or down payment amount2. Rebates, incentives and/or offers may be combined provided such combination is (1) in accordance with OEM requirements, (2) available to most shoppers, and (3) allowed by applicable state laws.3. Tax, title, license/registration fees may be included in a disclosure/disclaimer.1. All other fees and charges must be either included in the price or displayed/disclosed in accordance with applicable state and other laws*(e.g.: destination/handling, document, reconditioning, dealer fees).*2. All charges and fees for any options/aftermarket equipment already installed by dealer must be included in price.Autotrader may audit the dealer’s site, use third-party sites and pricing, complaints and other information as a basis for its decisions and actions related to dealer advertisements and prices.
POST /scrape · autotrader.com/information/vehicle-advertisements-and-pricing-guidelines-for-dealers.md · markdown · Showing 14 of 40 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on autotrader.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.

1.9 s · $0.000349
/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 autotrader.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://www.autotrader.com/information/vehicle-advertisements-and-pricing-guidelines-for-dealers", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What autotrader.com costs

Multiplied from the measured 5.5 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 5.5 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000349
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.01
1,000 pages this size 5.4 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.35
10,000 pages this size 54.2 MB at the measured price ≈ $3.49

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 autotrader.com.

The capture above took 1.9 s and cost $0.000349. The same call takes any URL on autotrader.com.

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