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chicago.gov · HTTP 200

Chicago Scraper

Spider read chicago.gov in 151 ms without a browser and returned 109 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Chicago is a Welcoming City", "Protecting Chicago" and "Mayor Brandon Johnson".

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Response chicago.gov/index.md markdown · 109 lines 
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
Code · Fields · Cost · Run it keyless, no account

The same call, in code.

The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on chicago.gov.

chicago-gov-scraper.ts 
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://chicago.gov");

// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser, no selectors

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Fields you can pull.

TitleDepartmentDateDescription

Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.

What chicago.gov costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000121 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.

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Run it keyless, no account 

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://chicago.gov/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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