GET hex.pm HTTP 200183 ms6.6 KB$0.000153 captured Aug 7, 2026
hex.pm, as data
One API turns any hex.pm 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 183 ms
- Page size
- 6.6 KB of markdown, 261 lines
- Fields
- About Hex, About Hex Link, About Hex Title, Help and 16 more
- Captured
- Aug 7, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This hex.pm page cost $0.000153 to fetch.
Specify your Mix dependencies as two-item tuples likeFetch dependencies from Hex without creating an account. Hex is usable out of the box in Elixir withfor commonly asked questions.and follow the publishing guide.Your package will be immediately available to all Elixir and Erlang users and the documentation will be available on HexDocs.Publish private packages by creating an organization.Private packages cost $9 / user / month after a free 30-day trial and include fast dependency fetching and HexDocs on the same reliable infrastructure that serves millions of packages daily. See ourKeep dependency rules consistent across projects with signed, organization-managed policies. Free organizations can publish public policies for public Hex packages. Paid organizations can also publish private policies covering public and private packages, visible only to organization members. See the## Most DownloadedA blazing fast JSON parser and generator in pure Elixir.Dynamic dispatching library for metrics and instrumentationsCompose web applications with functionsA MIME type module for ElixirCrypto-related functionality for the webArbitrary precision decimal arithmetic.What Spider does on hex.pm
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.
183 ms · $0.000153Page 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://hex.pm/", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://hex.pm/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://hex.pm/", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What hex.pm costs
Multiplied from the measured 6.6 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 hex.pm.
The capture above took 183 ms and cost $0.000153. The same call takes any URL on hex.pm.