GET ghost.io HTTP 200119 ms15.7 KB$0.000199 captured Aug 7, 2026

ghost.io, as data

One API turns any ghost.io 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 119 ms
Page size: 15.7 KB of markdown, 251 lines
Fields: Business Name, Address, Phone, Category and 1 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This ghost.io page cost $0.000199 to fetch.

response 200 · 119 ms · 15.7 KB

## Advanced creator toolsPublish by web & email newsletter.An editor built from the ground-up for professionals. Calm by design, with advanced workflows by default. No more suffering through clumsy toolbars or drag & oops. Immerse yourself in the story with an interface that's invisible until you need it, and powerful when you do.### Rich media & dynamic cards.Modern publishing requires more than just words. Expand your story with image galleries, gifs, video, audio, products, info boxes, accordion toggles, downloadable files, bookmarks, and so much more.### Newsletters built-in.Deliver posts by email newsletter to your audience, so they'll be in the loop whenever something new goes live. Segment your audience and send multiple different newsletters based on preference.## Grow your audiencesTransform those clicks into contacts.Until now, building an indie publication with memberships and subscriptions has been difficult and complicated.Ghost makes it easy, with native signup forms that turn anonymous views into logged-in members.

POST /scrape · ghost.io/index.md · markdown · Showing 11 of 251 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on ghost.io

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.

119 ms · $0.000199

/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 ghost.io'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://ghost.io/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What ghost.io costs

Multiplied from the measured 15.7 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 15.7 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000199

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.005968

1,000 pages this size 15.3 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.20

10,000 pages this size 152.8 MB at the measured price ≈ $1.99

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 ghost.io.

The capture above took 119 ms and cost $0.000199. The same call takes any URL on ghost.io.

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