GET crossref.org HTTP 200332 ms1.1 KB$0.000066 captured Aug 7, 2026

crossref.org, as data

One API turns any crossref.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.

target profile from the capture

Render mode: Plain HTTP, no browser needed
Response: HTTP 200 in 332 ms
Page size: 1.1 KB of markdown, 27 lines
Fields: Business Name, Address, Phone, Category and 2 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This crossref.org page cost $0.000066 to fetch.

response 200 · 332 ms · 1.1 KB

We run the open infrastructure to link research objects, entities, and actions&mdash;creating a lasting and reusable scholarly record that underpins open science.Together with our >25,000 members in 167 countries, we drive metadata exchange and support 2.1 billion monthly API queries, facilitating global research communication, for the benefit of society.ANNUAL MEETING 22 OCT 2026 The call for abstracts is now openRESEARCH POLICY Why PID strategies need more than just PIDsMETADATA Introducing Schema 5.5: CRediT + new record typesUSER RESEARCH Get involved in UX research at CrossrefSERVICE PROVIDERS Relaunched for platform accreditationGlobal Equitable Membership (GEM) Zero-cost DOIs and membership in 77 countries

POST /scrape · crossref.org/index.md · markdown · 27 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on crossref.org

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.

332 ms · $0.000066

/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 crossref.org'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://crossref.org/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What crossref.org costs

Multiplied from the measured 1.1 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 1.1 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000066

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.001983

1,000 pages this size 1.0 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.07

10,000 pages this size 10.3 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.66

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 332 ms and cost $0.000066. The same call takes any URL on crossref.org.

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