GET birmingham.ac.uk HTTP 200128 ms4.5 KB$0.000298 captured Aug 7, 2026

birmingham.ac.uk, as data

One API turns any birmingham.ac.uk 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 128 ms
Page size: 4.5 KB of markdown, 52 lines
Fields: Title, Content, Date, Source and 2 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

Start scraping birmingham.ac.uk See the code

Free balance on signup, no card. This birmingham.ac.uk page cost $0.000298 to fetch.

response 200 · 128 ms · 4.5 KB

## Sign up for a Clearing alertIt’s not too late to join a leading Russell Group university this September. Be the first to know which courses are available in Clearing.## Search our coursesStudy levelUndergraduatePostgraduate researchPostgraduate taughtShort course## Top talentWelcoming nine outstanding researchers to Birmingham as 125th Anniversary Fellows and Chairs, strengthening our research community and global top 50 ambition.Discover our new researchers## Find your place, in a place like no other.## Lots to doWhether you’re exploring the city centre or nearby neighbourhoods, there’s plenty to discover. From Digbeth’s independent food spots and street art to city‑centre nightlife, live music and world‑class sport, there’s something for everyone.## Green spacesWith more parkland than any other major European city, Birmingham offers space to unwind. From the Botanical Gardens and nearby parks like Cannon Hill, to Sutton Park’s open trails, nature is never far away.**Go to previous item**Go to next item## Experience Helios at The ExchangeFind out more about this stunning exhibition## Join our dynamic community## University of Birmingham is top of elite NSS groupWe rank first in the Russell Group and among the UK’s top 10 universities in the latest National Student Survey (NSS) - highlighting our exceptional student experience.Learn about our performance

POST /scrape · birmingham.ac.uk/index.md · markdown · 52 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on birmingham.ac.uk

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.

128 ms · $0.000298

/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 birmingham.ac.uk'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://birmingham.ac.uk/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What birmingham.ac.uk costs

Multiplied from the measured 4.5 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 4.5 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000298

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.008927

1,000 pages this size 4.4 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.30

10,000 pages this size 44.1 MB at the measured price ≈ $2.98

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 128 ms and cost $0.000298. The same call takes any URL on birmingham.ac.uk.

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