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GET essential.gg HTTP 200112 ms4.0 KB$0.000477 captured Aug 7, 2026

essential.gg, as data

One API turns any essential.gg 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 112 ms
Page size
4.0 KB of markdown, 114 lines
Fields
Title, Content, Date, Source and 1 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This essential.gg page cost $0.000477 to fetch.

response 200 · 112 ms · 4.0 KB
Enhanced Minecraft features in one simple mod.Host your Minecraft world, invite your friends, and play together, in just a few clicks!Show off in style with Essential’s unique cosmetics and emotes.Share the fun! Stay connected with your friends, all inside of Minecraft.Save time and effort using Essential’s powerful capabilities.Capture, browse, edit, and share your pictures from in-game.Manage your skin quickly and on the go, via Essential’s skin library.What players say about Essential.Discover why millions love Essential.Gotta be my favourite thing ever created. Makes playing with friends such a breeze!This mod goes on almost every modpack I play, my mates and I love it.For years me and my friends have been trying to play modded together and we used to pay for laggy servers. This is game changing.”ESSENTIAL + Sodium + Iris Shaders” is the best combo for perfect vanilla experience tbh.Im loving the new screenshots menu! No more opening up my screenshots folder and manually copy and pasting uncropped images.This mod has saved Minecraft Java Multiplayer. Goodbye Aternos, goodbye Hamachi, and goodbye other s**t.Been using this for a few months and it’s actually a life saver!Essential my beloved. Not only do I never have to host a server again but the voice chat mod works without me needing to do anything.Can I use Essential with other mods and modpacks?Yes, Essential is widely compatible with other mods, and makes a great addition to your favorite modpack. You can easily host modded worlds for you and your friends, for free, just make sure they have the same mods installed.What Minecraft versions does Essential support?Essential mod supports the latest and most popular versions of Minecraft Java Edition (1.8, 1.12, 1.16 to 1.21) on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge modloaders.How does Essential’s world hosting work?
POST /scrape · essential.gg/index.md · markdown · Showing 22 of 114 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on essential.gg

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.

112 ms · $0.000477
/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 essential.gg'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://essential.gg/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What essential.gg costs

Multiplied from the measured 4.0 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 4.0 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000477
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.01
1,000 pages this size 3.9 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.48
10,000 pages this size 38.8 MB at the measured price ≈ $4.77

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 essential.gg.

The capture above took 112 ms and cost $0.000477. The same call takes any URL on essential.gg.

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