GET chicago.gov HTTP 200151 ms8.5 KB$0.000121 captured Aug 7, 2026

chicago.gov, as data

One API turns any chicago.gov 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 151 ms
Page size: 8.5 KB of markdown, 109 lines
Fields: Title, Department, Date, Description
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This chicago.gov page cost $0.000121 to fetch.

response 200 · 151 ms · 8.5 KB

An official website of the City of Chicago## Chicago is a Welcoming City!Learn about rights and resources for Immigrant, Migrant, and Refugee communities.## Protecting ChicagoThe City of Chicago is committed to protecting our communities from harmful federal actions and inactions that threaten our rights, our well-being, and our shared future.## Mayor Brandon Johnson## Pay Utility Bill## Work for the City## ParkingTickets## Street OperationsThe City of Chicago is located on land that is and has long been a center for Native peoples.Thearea isthe traditional homelandsof theAnishinaabe, or the Council of the Three Fires: theOjibwe, Odawa, andPotawatomi Nations.Many other Nationsconsider this area their traditional homeland,includingtheMyaamia, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac andFox,Peoria, Kaskaskia,Wea, Kickapoo,andMascouten.The City specifically acknowledges the contributions ofKitihawaof the Potawatomiinfosteringthe community that has become Chicago. We acknowledgeall Native peopleswho came before usand who continue to contribute to our City. Weare committedtopromotingNativecultural heritageMayor Brandon Johnson Joins UCAN for REACH 21 Milestone Celebration, Honoring Achievements of Youth Engaged in Violence Prevention ProgrammingMayor Brandon Johnson, DCASE Complete Installation Of “Other Washingtons” Public Artwork at the George Washington MonumentAttorney General Raoul, City of Chicago Sue Pullman Innovations Over Air Pollution and Excessive OdorsMayor Brandon Johnson, CDOT, and Lyft Announce New Divvy Stations and Service Improvements Along Chicago's LakefrontMayor Brandon Johnson, Chicago Public Schools Continue Expansion of Sustainable Community SchoolsCDPH Weekly Media Brief, 08/06/2026Bud Billiken Parade, Duck Derby, Northalsted Market Days, Foo Fighters, and Sky vs. Fever Headline Weekend Special Events in ChicagoChicago Celebrates the Global Legacy of House Music During Four–Day Festival and Conference

POST /scrape · chicago.gov/index.md · markdown · Showing 19 of 109 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on chicago.gov

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.

151 ms · $0.000121

/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 chicago.gov'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://chicago.gov/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What chicago.gov costs

Multiplied from the measured 8.5 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 8.5 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000121

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.003617

1,000 pages this size 8.3 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.12

10,000 pages this size 82.6 MB at the measured price ≈ $1.21

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 151 ms and cost $0.000121. The same call takes any URL on chicago.gov.

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