GET joelonsoftware.com HTTP 200146 ms21.4 KB$0.000143 captured Aug 7, 2026

joelonsoftware.com, as data

One API turns any joelonsoftware.com 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 146 ms
Page size: 21.4 KB of markdown, 197 lines
Fields: Product Name, Pricing, Features, Description and 2 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This joelonsoftware.com page cost $0.000143 to fetch.

response 200 · 146 ms · 21.4 KB

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POST /scrape · joelonsoftware.com/index.md · markdown · Showing 32 of 197 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on joelonsoftware.com

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.

146 ms · $0.000143

/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 joelonsoftware.com'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://joelonsoftware.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What joelonsoftware.com costs

Multiplied from the measured 21.4 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 21.4 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000143

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.004294

1,000 pages this size 20.9 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.14

10,000 pages this size 208.7 MB at the measured price ≈ $1.43

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 146 ms and cost $0.000143. The same call takes any URL on joelonsoftware.com.

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