GET core.ac.uk HTTP 200154 ms17.1 KB$0.000152 captured Aug 7, 2026
core.ac.uk, as data
One API turns any core.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.
- Render mode
- Plain HTTP, no browser needed
- Response
- HTTP 200 in 154 ms
- Page size
- 17.1 KB of markdown, 118 lines
- Fields
- Title, Content, Date, Source and 2 more
- Captured
- Aug 7, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This core.ac.uk page cost $0.000152 to fetch.
### CORE’s Distinctive CharacteristicsCORE is an open scholarly infrastructure service aligned with the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). Beyond this shared foundation, CORE is defined by a set of distinctive characteristics that shape how it is built, governed, and operated.### Our servicesCreate new and innovative solutions.](https://core.ac.uk/services#access-to-raw-data)[#### Content discoveryFind relevant research and make your research more visible.](https://core.ac.uk/services#content-discovery)[#### Managing contentManage how your research content is exposed to the world.](https://core.ac.uk/services#managing-content)### Guidance for Open Access compliance monitoring in REF 2029This document provides UK Higher Education Institutions with best practice technical guidelines for exposing repository metadata to support open access compliance monitoring with respect to the UK REF 2029 OA policy.CORE Recommendations for REF2029#### Gareth MalcolmContent Partner Manager at Turnitin*> Our partnership with CORE will provide Turnitin with vast amounts of metadata and fulltexts that we can utilise in our plagiarism detection software.Academic institution using CORE#### Kathleen ShearerExecutive Director of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)*> CORE has significantly assisted the academic institutions participating in our global network with their key mission, which is their scientific content exposure. In addition, CORE has helped our content administrators to showcase the real benefits of repositories via its added value services.#### Burton DavisVice President and Deputy General Counsel, at MicrosoftWhat Spider does on core.ac.uk
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.
154 ms · $0.000152Page 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://core.ac.uk/", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://core.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://core.ac.uk/", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What core.ac.uk costs
Multiplied from the measured 17.1 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 core.ac.uk.
The capture above took 154 ms and cost $0.000152. The same call takes any URL on core.ac.uk.