GET happycow.net HTTP 200474 ms2.6 KB$0.000183 captured Aug 7, 2026

happycow.net, as data

One API turns any happycow.net 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 474 ms
Page size: 2.6 KB of markdown, 69 lines
Fields: Business Name, Address, Phone, Category and 2 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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response 200 · 474 ms · 2.6 KB

#### Display only vegan and vegetarian restaurants:# Find Vegan Options in XianNote: For sorting by Highest Rated and on Best of the City listings we use the Wilson Score Interval rather thana straight average of listing ratings; for this reason a business with less stars may appear above one with more stars.Still hungry? We've got you covered. Try searching for areas surrounding Xian.**Please help us improve this Xian vegan restaurant guide:**Add health food stores, cafes, or vegan restaurants in Xian.Link to this page from your webpage or blog.Please let these businesses know you found them on HappyCow.Once-a-month update on the latest veg related news,global restaurant and travel highlights, plus giveaways!

POST /scrape · happycow.net/asia/china/xian.md · markdown · 69 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on happycow.net

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.

474 ms · $0.000183

/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 happycow.net'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://www.happycow.net/asia/china/xian/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://www.happycow.net/asia/china/xian/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])

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

const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://www.happycow.net/asia/china/xian/", {
  return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What happycow.net costs

Multiplied from the measured 2.6 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 2.6 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000183

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.005481

1,000 pages this size 2.5 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.18

10,000 pages this size 25.3 MB at the measured price ≈ $1.83

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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