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GET freedesktop.org HTTP 200588 ms18.4 KB$0.000081 captured Aug 7, 2026

freedesktop.org, as data

One API turns any freedesktop.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 588 ms
Page size
18.4 KB of markdown, 598 lines
Fields
Business Name, Address, Phone, Category and 1 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This freedesktop.org page cost $0.000081 to fetch.

response 200 · 588 ms · 18.4 KB
# GstRTSPUrl*GstRtsp.RTSPUrl.prototype.copy*`function GstRtsp.RTSPUrl.prototype.copy(): {// javascript wrapper for 'gst_rtsp_url_copy'`def GstRtsp.RTSPUrl.copy (self):#python wrapper for 'gst_rtsp_url_copy'`*gst_rtsp_url_decode_path_components*gst_rtsp_url_decode_path_components (const GstRTSPUrl * url)Splits the path of *url* on '/' boundaries, decoding the resulting components,The decoding performed by this routine is "URI decoding", as defined in RFC3986, commonly known as percent-decoding. For example, a string "foo%2fbar"will decode to "foo/bar" -- the %2f being replaced by the corresponding bytewith hex value 0x2f. Note that there is no guarantee that the resulting bytesequence is valid in any given encoding. As a special case, %00 is notunescaped to NUL, as that would prematurely terminate the string.Also note that since paths usually start with a slash, the first componentwill usually be the empty string.NULL-terminated array of URL components. Free withg_strfreev when no longer needed.*GstRtsp.RTSPUrl.prototype.decode_path_components*`function GstRtsp.RTSPUrl.prototype.decode_path_components(): {// javascript wrapper for 'gst_rtsp_url_decode_path_components'GLib.prototype.strfreev when no longer needed.*GstRtsp.RTSPUrl.decode_path_components*`def GstRtsp.RTSPUrl.decode_path_components (self):#python wrapper for 'gst_rtsp_url_decode_path_components'`None-terminated array of URL components. Free withGLib.strfreev when no longer needed.gst_rtsp_url_free (GstRTSPUrl * url)*GstRtsp.RTSPUrl.prototype.free*`function GstRtsp.RTSPUrl.prototype.free(): {// javascript wrapper for 'gst_rtsp_url_free'
POST /scrape · gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/rtsplib/gstrtspurl.md · markdown · Showing 32 of 598 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on freedesktop.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.

588 ms · $0.000081
/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 freedesktop.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://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/rtsplib/gstrtspurl.html", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What freedesktop.org costs

Multiplied from the measured 18.4 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 18.4 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000081
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.002422
1,000 pages this size 18.0 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.08
10,000 pages this size 179.7 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.81

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 freedesktop.org.

The capture above took 588 ms and cost $0.000081. The same call takes any URL on freedesktop.org.

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