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GET itch.io HTTP 200129 ms27.5 KB$0.000188 captured Aug 7, 2026

itch.io, as data

One API turns any itch.io 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 129 ms
Page size
27.5 KB of markdown, 440 lines
Fields
Game Title, Platform, Price, Rating and 2 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This itch.io page cost $0.000188 to fetch.

response 200 · 129 ms · 27.5 KB
Issue #77 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.Build the recording studio of your dreams!To quench a thirst for coffee!Strategy meets physics, in this roguelike word game, where you combine spelling with cool upgrades to score high#Turn-based Strategy, #StrategyThe Mainframe is lost, corps rule the Net. But the Hacker is back.A beautiful throwback to the simulation games of the 90s/00s, designed with modern-day featuresHarvest body parts. Create brutal combos.Tavern Talk Stories: DreamwalkerLove at The Milky Way Diner - DemoA LGBT-friendly cozy sci-fi cooking/dating sim about making friends, finding love, and running a diner in deep spacea story-driven watercolour puzzle gameThe sequel to one of the most famous C64 games of all time is here![Bloodbane: The Crimson Nocturne [Post-Ludum ver.]](https://hvdr02.itch.io/bloodbane-the-crimson-nocturne-post-ludum-ver)Command your servant, harvest blood and resources, unlock new lands with cards—and slay an ancient vampireUncle Lee’s Cookbook: Five Recipes for Disaster#Pixel Art, #Female ProtagonistUncle Lee has done it again. And again. And again. And again. And again.An extraction fishing experience with inventory management and upgradesJack reaches new heights in this turn-based puzzle-platformer sequel![DAWN CHORUS [DEMO]](https://haraiva.itch.io/dawn-chorus-demo)#Interactive Fiction, #Post-apocalyptic[ALTEREDBLOOD+ [DEMO]](https://trueworldstudios.itch.io/alteredblood)An FPS about standing in the blood of your enemiesA card-slashing horror game about unearthing the contents of a cryptic 1995 CD-ROM that should have never existed.Moss the world and find secrets (PICO-8).A wholesome slice of life yuri story about maids and (maybe) vampires?An incremental game where you manage a tavern with a deadly secret beneath it.Bass cannot break the law of conservation of massBlack Omens: House of Crimson Silk
POST /scrape · itch.io/index.md · markdown · Showing 30 of 440 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on itch.io

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.

129 ms · $0.000188
/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 itch.io'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://itch.io/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What itch.io costs

Multiplied from the measured 27.5 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 27.5 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000188
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.005649
1,000 pages this size 26.8 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.19
10,000 pages this size 268.5 MB at the measured price ≈ $1.88

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 itch.io.

The capture above took 129 ms and cost $0.000188. The same call takes any URL on itch.io.

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