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Spider read healthdirect.gov.au in 169 ms without a browser and returned 69 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Get health information and advice", "Symptom Checker" and "Get started".
# Get health information and advice## Symptom Checker* The Symptom Checker advises if you should see a doctor or care for yourself at home.* It will ask questions about your symptoms — this takes an average of 6 minutes.* **It cannot give you a diagnosis and is not a substitute for professional healthcare.**### Get startedWho is this symptom check for?* It will ask questions about your symptoms — this takes an average of 6 minutes.## Find a health service* Please enter a suburb or postcode of your location and select from the list.* Unable to find your location. Please enter manually below.## Health topicsSearch all our content for trusted health information including resources from our information partners.# Healthdirect 24hr 7 days a week hotline24 hour health advice you can count on# Government Accredited with over 140 information partnersWe are a government-funded service, providing quality, approved health information and adviceHealthdirect Australia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and their continuingconnection to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners and to Elders both past and© 2026 Healthdirect Australia LimitedSupport for this browser is being discontinued for this site* Internet Explorer 11 and lowerWe currently support Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox and Safari. For more information, please visit the links below:You are welcome to continue browsing this site with this browser. Some features, tools or interaction may not work correctly.The same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on healthdirect.gov.au.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://healthdirect.gov.au");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const spider = new Spider({ apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY! });
const result = await spider.scrapeUrl("https://www.healthdirect.gov.au", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(result);Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What healthdirect.gov.au costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000108 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
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