GET dictionary.com HTTP 200187 ms2.5 KB$0.000092 captured Aug 7, 2026

dictionary.com, as data

One API turns any dictionary.com 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 187 ms
Page size: 2.5 KB of markdown, 81 lines
Fields: Adhesion, Leader, Main Content, Search Form and 8 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This dictionary.com page cost $0.000092 to fetch.

response 200 · 187 ms · 2.5 KB

# Dictionary.com## The Dictionary for the Real World### Popular searches:## Featured Articles### Nature #### Arboreal to Zephyrean: 14 Sizzling Words for Summer Days Grab some sunscreen and brush up on your vocabulary to make it through the hot days of summer.### This Week in Words #### News from August 1–August 7, 2026### Word Origins #### Which Overachiever Is August Named For?### Commonly Confused #### "Supposedly" vs. "Supposably": Yes, There Is a Difference## Trending Words### situationship 💞🤷 Is it dating? Is it not? Let's untangle it.### toxic positivity 🌞💣 Can excessive cheer actually be harmful?### almond mom 🙅‍♀️🍰 One almond at a time, find out why almond mom went viral.### trendjacking 📊👀 Learn about riding the wave of someone else's hype.Today's Featured Game Word Puzzle Create as many words as you can. Play Now

POST /scrape · dictionary.com/index.md · markdown · 81 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on dictionary.com

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.

187 ms · $0.000092

/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 dictionary.com'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://dictionary.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What dictionary.com costs

Multiplied from the measured 2.5 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 2.5 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000092

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.00276

1,000 pages this size 2.5 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.09

10,000 pages this size 24.6 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.92

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 187 ms and cost $0.000092. The same call takes any URL on dictionary.com.

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