GET houstontx.gov HTTP 200332 ms4.3 KB$0.000094 captured Aug 7, 2026

houstontx.gov, as data

One API turns any houstontx.gov 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.

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Render mode: Plain HTTP, no browser needed
Response: HTTP 200 in 332 ms
Page size: 4.3 KB of markdown, 81 lines
Fields: Title, Department, Date, Description and 1 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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response 200 · 332 ms · 4.3 KB

# Welcome to Houston## Popular City Pages* Public Feedback: Parking Regulations and Enforcement Revisions* Mayor's Office of CommunicationsThe State of the City is Strong### NEWSMayor Whitmire Addresses ICE ShootingMayor Whitmire's Statement on ICE ShootingMayor Whitmire: Outlook Improvement Reflects Houston's Fiscal ProgressMayor Whitmire and City Council Pass FY 2027 BudgetMayor Whitmire Thanks Public-Private Partners for Donation to Power Protection InitiativeMayor John Whitmire Announces Proposed Fiscal Year 2027 Budget### EVENTSHouston Shakespeare Fetival, thru August 8Abilities Expo, thru August 2Mayor's Back 2 School and Health FairHouston Disaster and Recovery Expo, August 22Houston Solid Waste Management has launched HTX Collects, a mobile app that will allow residents to stay better connected with the City’s waste and recycling collection programs.This portal provides detailed information about the City of Houston’s finances. You can visualize the allocation of these funds, or you can explore the raw data.311 Houston Help and Info puts your City government at your fingertips –- one contact, via the channel of your choice, phone or email -- and you get answers or have your service problem solved.HTV Houston Television cablecasts 24/7 and provides live programming of City Council and council committee meetings. HTV Houston Television is headquartered in a multi-faceted production facility on the first floor of City Hall at 901 Bagby.The Open Data Portal is the platform to host City-wide open data. The Open Data Portal’s goal is to encourage civic engagement and collaboration, improve transparency, and facilitate access to public information.Usted puede utilizar este sitio para tener acceso a recursos, herramientas e información sobre los departamentos de la Ciudad las 24 horas del día, los 7 días de la semana.Updated: Thu Jul 23 09:20:01 AM CDT 2026

POST /scrape · houstontx.gov/index.md · markdown · 81 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on houstontx.gov

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.

332 ms · $0.000094

/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 houstontx.gov'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://houstontx.gov/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What houstontx.gov costs

Multiplied from the measured 4.3 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 4.3 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000094

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.00282

1,000 pages this size 4.2 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.09

10,000 pages this size 41.8 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.94

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 332 ms and cost $0.000094. The same call takes any URL on houstontx.gov.

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