GET citynews.ca HTTP 2003.6 s11.1 KB$0.000037 captured Aug 7, 2026
citynews.ca, as data
One API turns any citynews.ca 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.
- Render mode
- Plain HTTP, no browser needed
- Response
- HTTP 200 in 3.6 s
- Page size
- 11.1 KB of markdown, 168 lines
- Fields
- Headline, Summary, Author, Published Date and 2 more
- Captured
- Aug 7, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This citynews.ca page cost $0.000037 to fetch.
These cookies may track data across websites for marketing and interest-based advertising to provide personalized content, offers, and advertisements.# ‘A calm and steady presence’: What to know about Lloyd RobertsonLloyd Robertson, a trusted voice who guided Canadians through some of the biggest moments in modern history, has died at the age of 92.Last Updated August 5, 2026 10:20 am.A quick look at CTV News anchor Lloyd Robertson, **who died Tuesday at the age of 92**.Early days: Robertson wrote in his memoir about growing up in an unhappy home with very little money. He started working at a radio station as a teen, which he attributed to his desire to break free.Family: Robertson married his high school sweetheart Nancy in 1956, and they had four daughters, including a set of twins.Career highlights: Robertson was a broadcast journalist for 41 years, and covered nearly every major event of the day, including the moon landing, the Quebec Referendum, the 9/11 attacks, several state funerals, numerous papal visits, 14 Canadian elections and nine Olympic Games.For the record: “Conferred upon you is this mantle of objectivity and fairness, and you have to take that seriously. And you’re also aware in this business that as easily as you win it, you can just as easily lose it.”Reaction to his death: Prime Minister Mark Carney wrote on social media, “For millions of us, he was a familiar face in our living rooms. A reassuring voice in moments of uncertainty. A calm and steady presence through the moments that shaped our nation.”Broadcaster Lisa Laflamme recalled the moment she took over for him as anchor of CTV National News: “It was overwhelming and yet calming — because he was there.”CTV news anchor Lloyd Robertson rehearses his news cast before going live on air at CTV headquarters in Scarborough, Ont., on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette.What Spider does on citynews.ca
Same key, five endpoints. The numbers under a cell were measured on this page.
Page to markdown
Clean text for RAG and LLM context, boilerplate removed. The lane that runs without a key.
3.6 s · $0.000037Page to JSON
Spider reads the page and names the fields. Pass your own schema when you need exact keys.
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.
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/08/05/lloyd-robertson-ctv-news-anchor/", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/08/05/lloyd-robertson-ctv-news-anchor/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/08/05/lloyd-robertson-ctv-news-anchor/", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What citynews.ca costs
Multiplied from the measured 11.1 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.
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 citynews.ca.
The capture above took 3.6 s and cost $0.000037. The same call takes any URL on citynews.ca.