GET hku.hk HTTP 200165 ms6.6 KB$0.000164 captured Aug 7, 2026

hku.hk, as data

One API turns any hku.hk 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 165 ms
Page size: 6.6 KB of markdown, 163 lines
Fields: Title, Content, Date, Source and 2 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This hku.hk page cost $0.000164 to fetch.

response 200 · 165 ms · 6.6 KB

We regret to inform you that our website no longer supports Internet Explorer. To continue browsing the website, please consider using other browsers like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox or Safari.# The University of Hong Kong Index## Global acclaim and recognitionHKU academics have been named**&ldquo;Highly Cited Researchers 2025&rdquo;**by Clarivate as the most influential in the worldQS Asia University Rankings 2026QS World University Rankings 2027## Admissionsof discovery and innovation## A world of knowledge and excellence in ten Faculties* Web Accessibility Statement

POST /scrape · hku.hk/index.md · markdown · 163 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on hku.hk

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.

165 ms · $0.000164

/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 hku.hk'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://hku.hk/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What hku.hk costs

Multiplied from the measured 6.6 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 6.6 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000164

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.004907

1,000 pages this size 6.4 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.16

10,000 pages this size 64.3 MB at the measured price ≈ $1.64

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 165 ms and cost $0.000164. The same call takes any URL on hku.hk.

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