GET illinois.gov HTTP 200131 ms2.4 KB$0.000114 captured Aug 7, 2026

illinois.gov, as data

One API turns any illinois.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.

target profile from the capture

Render mode: Plain HTTP, no browser needed
Response: HTTP 200 in 131 ms
Page size: 2.4 KB of markdown, 110 lines
Fields: Title, Department, Date, Description and 2 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

Start scraping illinois.gov See the code

Free balance on signup, no card. This illinois.gov page cost $0.000114 to fetch.

response 200 · 131 ms · 2.4 KB

* Government * Business * Employment * Education * Residents * Visiting# Welcome to Illinois.gov!Find places to go, things to see. Search through all the different services offered by the various Illinois agencies.## Stay InformedDuring live broadcasts use the links below to tune in to audio and video feeds for the latest coverage from the State of Illinois.## Recent NewsView More News No Press Releases Found Get Email Updates## Popular ServicesIDES ### Certify Weekly Unemployment BenefitsIDFPR ### Professional License Look-upISP ### Locate Registered Sex Offenders## Popular Agencies## Footer

POST /scrape · illinois.gov/index.md · markdown · 110 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on illinois.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.

131 ms · $0.000114

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

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What illinois.gov costs

Multiplied from the measured 2.4 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 2.4 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000114

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.003421

1,000 pages this size 2.4 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.11

10,000 pages this size 23.8 MB at the measured price ≈ $1.14

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 illinois.gov.

The capture above took 131 ms and cost $0.000114. The same call takes any URL on illinois.gov.

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