GET gzip.org HTTP 200124 ms2.0 KB$0.000017 captured Aug 7, 2026

gzip.org, as data

One API turns any gzip.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 124 ms
Page size: 2.0 KB of markdown, 37 lines
Fields: History Links, Link Url
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This gzip.org page cost $0.000017 to fetch.

response 200 · 124 ms · 2.0 KB

### Intro### Linkswhere you can find the latest gzip source code, documentation, and development information* gzip documentation (from that home page),if you came here with questions about how to use gzip, *this is the link for you*where pigz is a parallel implementation of gzip, able to take advantage of multiple processors, cores, and threadswhich is the specification of the gzip wrapper formatwhich is the specification of the deflate compressed data format, contained within the gzip wrappera free software library written in C, which you can use to read and write gzip files and memory streams* How are zlib, gzip and zip related?,to answer your most pressing questions (*summary:* gzip is not zip, zip is not gzip)### A Brief Historywoolly mammoths](http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/woolly-mammoths-walk/) roamed the Earth,the *gzip* utility to replace the Unix *compress* utility. Atthe time the continued use of *compress* was threatened by giantcorporations holding patents on the LZW algorithm used by*compress*. In addition to avoiding patent infringement,*gzip* provided superior compression. The *gzip* utility and

POST /scrape · gzip.org/index.md · markdown · Showing 18 of 37 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on gzip.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.

124 ms · $0.000017

/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 gzip.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://gzip.org/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What gzip.org costs

Multiplied from the measured 2.0 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 2.0 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000017

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.000511

1,000 pages this size 1.9 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.02

10,000 pages this size 19.4 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.17

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 124 ms and cost $0.000017. The same call takes any URL on gzip.org.

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