GET libguides.com HTTP 200487 ms1.8 KB$0.00006 captured Aug 8, 2026
libguides.com, as data
One API turns any libguides.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.
- Render mode
- Plain HTTP, no browser needed
- Response
- HTTP 200 in 487 ms
- Page size
- 1.8 KB of markdown, 25 lines
- Fields
- Business Name, Address, Phone, Category
- Captured
- Aug 8, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This libguides.com page cost $0.00006 to fetch.
# Genealogy at the State Library of Pennsylvania: City DirectoriesA guide to resources available to genealogy and family history researchers through the State Library of Pennsylvania.City Directories containaddress by address listings in a town orcity. Researchers use city directories to gather information about individuals and the towns where they lived. Directories include names, addresses, and occupations of individuals as well as information about local government, churches, businesses, schools and other organizations.The State Library's collection includes directories for many different Pennsylvania cities and townsfromthe 1800's to the presenton microfim and in print. Search the State Library catalog for more information.Ancestry Library Edition, HeritageQuest and Fold3 have digitized city, church,business and professional directories available. State Library patrons may use Ancestry Library Edition, HeritageQuest and Fold3 onsite at the State Library of Pennsylvania. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania employees may search HeritageQuest and Fold3 remotely using our A-Z databases page.Other places to search for digitized city directories:Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new window Digital resources from across the United States. * HathiTrust This link opens in a new window * Internet Archive This link opens in a new window ;)What Spider does on libguides.com
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.
487 ms · $0.00006Page to JSON
Spider reads the page and names the fields. Pass your own schema when you need exact keys.
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://pa-gov.libguides.com/c.php?g=1069281&p=7784035", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://pa-gov.libguides.com/c.php?g=1069281&p=7784035", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://pa-gov.libguides.com/c.php?g=1069281&p=7784035", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What libguides.com costs
Multiplied from the measured 1.8 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 libguides.com.
The capture above took 487 ms and cost $0.00006. The same call takes any URL on libguides.com.