GET books.toscrape.com HTTP 200232 ms6.1 KB$0.000092 captured Aug 7, 2026

books.toscrape.com, as data

One API turns any books.toscrape.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 232 ms
Page size: 6.1 KB of markdown, 168 lines
Fields: Breadcrumb, Main Content, Main Title, Product Count and 10 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This books.toscrape.com page cost $0.000092 to fetch.

response 200 · 232 ms · 6.1 KB

**Warning!** This is a demo website for web scraping purposes. Prices and ratings here were randomly assigned and have no real meaning.### A Light in the ...### Tipping the Velvet### Soumission### Sharp Objects### Sapiens: A Brief History ...### The Requiem Red### The Dirty Little Secrets ...### The Coming Woman: A ...### The Boys in the ...### The Black Maria### Starving Hearts (Triangular Trade ...### Shakespeare's Sonnets### Set Me Free### Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little ...### Rip it Up and ...### Our Band Could Be ...### Olio### Mesaerion: The Best Science ...### Libertarianism for Beginners### It's Only the Himalayas

POST /scrape · books.toscrape.com/index.md · markdown · 168 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on books.toscrape.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.

232 ms · $0.000092

/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 books.toscrape.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://books.toscrape.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What books.toscrape.com costs

Multiplied from the measured 6.1 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 6.1 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000092

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.002762

1,000 pages this size 6.0 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.09

10,000 pages this size 59.6 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.92

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 232 ms and cost $0.000092. The same call takes any URL on books.toscrape.com.

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