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GET independent.ie HTTP 200120 ms61.7 KB$0.003541 captured Aug 7, 2026

independent.ie, as data

One API turns any independent.ie 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 120 ms
Page size
61.7 KB of markdown, 666 lines
Fields
Title, Content, Date, Source and 2 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This independent.ie page cost $0.003541 to fetch.

response 200 · 120 ms · 61.7 KB
More](https://www.independent.ie/business/money/)Money ## Premium‘Next of kin is a myth’ – why you need to create an enduring power of attorney An enduring power of attorney is a legal safeguard that allows you to plan for the future while you are in good health. Yet only 8pc of Irish adults have oneMoney ### Premium‘The cost of replacing certain parts can be extremely high’ – does a 10-year-old car make financial sense? Buying an older car can save thousands upfront, but does upkeep cost more in the long run?Money ### PremiumEoin McGee answers: ‘My girlfriend and I want to buy a house together. Do we have the right saving and investing strategy?’ At the moment, I have around €7.5k in savings and €9k in ETFs; my girlfriend is in a similar positionMoney ### Premium‘We got two BoConcept sofas for €1,000’ – meet the people who never pay full price From interiors to tech, three savvy shoppers share their tips for finding the best dealsMoney ### PremiumMichael Houghton: ‘My wife and I are a saver-spender couple. It has created conflict over the years’ Dynamics of a relationship ultimately determine a household’s financial stabilityMore](https://www.independent.ie/business/)Irish News ### Loans for weddings, home upgrades and EVs push Irish borrowings to highest level everIrish Business ### Large firms paid extra €1.1bn in corporation tax on foot of higher 15pc rate in JulyBusiness ### PremiumOisin Fanning’s multi-million-pound UK High Court battle over repossessed London home is dismissed Boss of oil and gas firm San Leon sued Guernsey-based lender last yearBusiness ### Kingspan says tech sector ‘fully detached’ from regular economy as profits jump Shares rise 15pc as Irish firm predicts strong 2026 performanceMore](https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/)
POST /scrape · independent.ie/index.md · markdown · Showing 12 of 666 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on independent.ie

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.

120 ms · $0.003541
/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 independent.ie'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://independent.ie/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What independent.ie costs

Multiplied from the measured 61.7 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 61.7 KB over HTTP, measured $0.003541
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.11
1,000 pages this size 60.2 MB at the measured price ≈ $3.54
10,000 pages this size 602.2 MB at the measured price ≈ $35.41

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 independent.ie.

The capture above took 120 ms and cost $0.003541. The same call takes any URL on independent.ie.

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