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GET mediawiki.org HTTP 200215 ms9.3 KB$0.000149 captured Aug 7, 2026

mediawiki.org, as data

One API turns any mediawiki.org 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 215 ms
Page size
9.3 KB of markdown, 48 lines
Fields
Headline, Summary, Author, Published Date
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This mediawiki.org page cost $0.000149 to fetch.

response 200 · 215 ms · 9.3 KB
# MediaWiki is a collaboration and documentation platform brought to you by a vibrant community.The MediaWiki software is used by tens of thousands of websites and thousands of companies and organisations.It powers Wikipedia and also this website.MediaWiki helps you collect and organise knowledge and make it available to people.It's powerful, multilingual, free and open, extensible, customisable, reliable, and free of charge.Find out more and if MediaWiki is right for you.### Set up and run MediaWiki* **Download**, install and configure MediaWiki* Add functionality by installing extensions* Problems? See errors and symptoms and FAQ* Don't own a server? Find hosting services* Get professional development and consulting* Join MediaWiki Stakeholders user group### Edit and use MediaWiki* Learn more about reading, editing, and personal customisation### Develop and extend code* Read the MediaWiki developer documentation* Visit the Wikimedia Developer Portal### Get help and contribute* Cannot find the answer to a problem with MediaWiki? Ask the support desk!* Get involved as a translator, designer, documentation writer, tester, tech ambassador, or developer* Report wrong software behaviour or a feature proposal### NewsMediaWiki 1.46.0 is now available.Security and maintenance release: 1.43.9 / 1.44.6 / 1.45.4 are now available.Team Challenges at Wikimania 2026: Registration for the Team Challenges closes on June 20th at 11pm UTC.
POST /scrape · mediawiki.org/index.md · markdown · Showing 26 of 48 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on mediawiki.org

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.

215 ms · $0.000149
/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 mediawiki.org'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://mediawiki.org/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What mediawiki.org costs

Multiplied from the measured 9.3 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 9.3 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000149
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.004459
1,000 pages this size 9.1 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.15
10,000 pages this size 91.0 MB at the measured price ≈ $1.49

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 mediawiki.org.

The capture above took 215 ms and cost $0.000149. The same call takes any URL on mediawiki.org.

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