GET legislation.gov.au HTTP 200170 ms2.4 KB$0.00011 captured Aug 7, 2026
legislation.gov.au, as data
One API turns any legislation.gov.au 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.
- Render mode
- Plain HTTP, no browser needed
- Response
- HTTP 200 in 170 ms
- Page size
- 2.4 KB of markdown, 46 lines
- Fields
- Title, Department, Date, Description
- Captured
- Aug 7, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This legislation.gov.au page cost $0.00011 to fetch.
# Federal Register of Legislation# Explore the Federal Register of LegislationAt least one of the wordsContains all the wordsContains phraseThe Federal Register of Legislation (the Register) is the authorised whole-of-government website for Commonwealth legislation and related documents. It contains the full text and details of the lifecycle of individual laws and the relationships between them.The Register is managed by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel in accordance with the *Legislation Act 2003*.## Your recently viewed itemsYou have not viewed any items## What's newNew and amended titles recently published on the Federal Register of Legislation within the last 7 days.Acts/collection(act)/sort(registeredat desc)>)Legislative Instruments/collection(LegislativeInstrument)/sort(registeredat desc)>)Notifiable Instruments/collection(NotifiableInstrument)/sort(registeredat desc)>)Gazettes/collection(Gazette)/sort(registeredat desc)>)Administrative Arrangements Orders/collection(AdministrativeArrangementsOrder)/sort(registeredat desc)>)Prerogative Instruments/collection(PrerogativeInstrument)/sort(registeredat desc)>)## My AccountThe new register provides a more personalised experience when you are using your account.Receive email notification updates or changes to Commonwealth law based on your preferences, create custom searches and easily save items to your profile to quickly reference when needed.What Spider does on legislation.gov.au
Same key, five endpoints. The numbers under a cell were measured on this page.
Page to markdown
Clean text for RAG and LLM context, boilerplate removed. The lane that runs without a key.
170 ms · $0.00011Page to JSON
Spider reads the page and names the fields. Pass your own schema when you need exact keys.
Whole site
Follows legislation.gov.au's own links, respects robots, streams pages as they land.
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.
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://legislation.gov.au/", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://legislation.gov.au/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://legislation.gov.au/", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What legislation.gov.au costs
Multiplied from the measured 2.4 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.
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 legislation.gov.au.
The capture above took 170 ms and cost $0.00011. The same call takes any URL on legislation.gov.au.