GET govinfo.gov HTTP 200203 ms6.0 KB$0.000116 captured Aug 7, 2026

govinfo.gov, as data

One API turns any govinfo.gov 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 203 ms
Page size: 6.0 KB of markdown, 121 lines
Fields: Title, Department, Date, Description
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This govinfo.gov page cost $0.000116 to fetch.

response 200 · 203 ms · 6.0 KB

** #### A to Z Browse documents by alphabetical order** #### Category Browse documents in specific collections** #### Date Browse documents within a timeframe or date range** #### Committee Browse documents by the issuing committee** #### Author View documents by government authors** #### Author Browse documents by government authors## Recent* Congressional Record Daily Digest* Federal Register Table of Contents* Congressionally Mandated Reports## Popular* Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR) | (annual)* Congressional Committee Prints* Congressional Serial Set | Browse by Topic* Congressionally Mandated Reports | Browse by Topic* Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence, Pocket Edition* United States Courts Opinions## Trending* Declaration of Independence* Budget of the United States Government, FY 2027* United States Reports Collection (U.S. Supreme Court Opinions)* H.R. 1 (ENR) - One Big Beautiful Bill Act, 2025* Congressionally Mandated Reports Collection* January 6th Committee Final Report | Browse the Report Collection* Congressional Tributes and Commemorations%20or%20crtype:(CELEBRATING)%20or%20crtype:(COMMEMORATING)%20or%20crtype:(COMMENDING)%20or%20crtype:(CONGRATULATIONS)%20or%20crtype:(HONORING)%20or%20crtype:(INMEMORYOF)%20or%20crtype:(HONORING)%20or%20crtype:(RECOGNIZING)%20or%20crtype:(RETIREMENT)%20or%20crtype:(TRIBUTETO)%22,%22historical%22:false,%22sortBy%22:%222%22%7D)# FeaturesKorean War Armistice Day 2026The anniversary of the signing of the Korean War ArmisticeArt in Government Publications Series, Part 3: Art in U.S. Federal BuildingsFederal Government publications that not only tell a story, but highlight works of artAnnual Reports Derived Collection, America's 250th Anniversary, Prototype XHTML in Bills Collection for Browser XSLT Deprecation

POST /scrape · govinfo.gov/index.md · markdown · Showing 31 of 121 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on govinfo.gov

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.

203 ms · $0.000116

/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 govinfo.gov'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://govinfo.gov/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What govinfo.gov costs

Multiplied from the measured 6.0 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 6.0 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000116

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.003493

1,000 pages this size 5.8 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.12

10,000 pages this size 58.4 MB at the measured price ≈ $1.16

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 203 ms and cost $0.000116. The same call takes any URL on govinfo.gov.

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