GET hal.science HTTP 2001.3 s6.9 KB$0.000021 captured Aug 7, 2026
hal.science, as data
One API turns any hal.science 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.
- Render mode
- Plain HTTP, no browser needed
- Response
- HTTP 200 in 1.3 s
- Page size
- 6.9 KB of markdown, 75 lines
- Fields
- Title, Authors, Abstract, Journal and 2 more
- Captured
- Aug 7, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This hal.science page cost $0.000021 to fetch.
* **ANR project(s)**: enter the project’s decision code, the acronym or the project’s title;* **European project(s)**: enter the project(s) linked to the article;* **Contract, financing**: if necessary, enter the other sources of funding for the article (free text field).### 5. Other informationsThis section allows you to enter other information such as classification, JEL or MeSH keywords, Research infrastructure, etc.## ValidationIn order to finalise the application, the various validation stages must be followed.### 1. Check the information in the citationThe bibliographic citation is based on the information entered in the form. Check the citation and correct the metadata in the form if necessary.Reminder: the type of document must be “Preprints, Working Papers, …” to the exclusion of all others. Only this type of document can activate the document transfer function on Episciences.Check the metadata carefully:* Author: first names and surnames of all authors;### 2. Transferring your depositIf the article has an abstract in English and is related to a discipline on arXiv, it can be transferred to the open repository (conditions for transfer to arXiv). To do this, check “I transfer to arXiv”.### 3. Submitting your preprint to a publishing or a peer-review serviceTo submit your preprint directly to an Episciences journal or a peer-review service, select the desired journal from the drop-down list.After validation of the submission form (next stage), the preprint is subjected to a human technical check. Once validated, the preprint will be available online on HAL and automatically sent to the chosen journal.### 4. Accept the HAL terms and conditionsTo validate the deposit, check “I accept these conditions” and click on “Upload”.#### Gestion des cookiesWhat Spider does on hal.science
Same key, five endpoints. The numbers under a cell were measured on this page.
Page to markdown
Clean text for RAG and LLM context, boilerplate removed. The lane that runs without a key.
1.3 s · $0.000021Page to JSON
Spider reads the page and names the fields. Pass your own schema when you need exact keys.
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.
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://doc.hal.science/en/deposit/submitting-preprint-to-publishing-service/", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://doc.hal.science/en/deposit/submitting-preprint-to-publishing-service/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://doc.hal.science/en/deposit/submitting-preprint-to-publishing-service/", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What hal.science costs
Multiplied from the measured 6.9 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.
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 hal.science.
The capture above took 1.3 s and cost $0.000021. The same call takes any URL on hal.science.