GET cpan.org HTTP 200278 ms1.9 KB$0.00003 captured Aug 7, 2026
cpan.org, as data
One API turns any cpan.org 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 278 ms
- Page size
- 1.9 KB of markdown, 42 lines
- Fields
- Business Name, Address, Phone, Category
- Captured
- Aug 7, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This cpan.org page cost $0.00003 to fetch.
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) currentlyPerl modules](modules/index.html) in 47,573 distributions,The archive has been online since October 1995 and is constantly growing.## Search CPAN via## Recent Uploads* Catalyst-View-ChromePDF-v0.1.0* Math-Prime-Util-GMP-0.54-TRIAL3* Visit https://pause.perl.org/## Perl Resources* The Perl Programming languageWhat Spider does on cpan.org
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.
278 ms · $0.00003Page 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://cpan.org/", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://cpan.org/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://cpan.org/", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What cpan.org costs
Multiplied from the measured 1.9 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 cpan.org.
The capture above took 278 ms and cost $0.00003. The same call takes any URL on cpan.org.