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GET medicare.gov HTTP 200127 ms3.1 KB$0.000179 captured Aug 7, 2026

medicare.gov, as data

One API turns any medicare.gov 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 127 ms
Page size
3.1 KB of markdown, 57 lines
Fields
Plan name, Plan type, Monthly premium, Deductible and 4 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This medicare.gov page cost $0.000179 to fetch.

response 200 · 127 ms · 3.1 KB
### Log in/create account### Find health & drug plans### Find care providers### Pay your premium### Report fraud### Replace your cardCoverage of GLP-1 drugs for weight lossAs of July 1, Medicare provides access to certain GLP-1 drugs to help you lose weight and improve your health if you have Medicare drug coverage (Part D), aren’t already getting these drugs covered by Part D, and meet other requirements. You’ll pay a $50 copay for a monthly supply.Diabetes prevention starts here!The Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program can help you prevent or delay type 2 diabetes. Get support making diet and exercises changes at no cost to you. Now you can attend sessions in-person or virtually. If you attend virtually, you can choose either live or self-paced sessions.Take control of your health data with Medicare’s app libraryFind secure third-party apps to track your health history, manage medications, share information with providers, and more.**Recent court decisions about nondiscrimination.**Find information on recent court decisions about nondiscrimination in health programs. Learn more.Important updates, straight to your inboxGet reminders about Open Enrollment, ways to save costs, and more.
POST /scrape · medicare.gov/index.md · markdown · 57 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on medicare.gov

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.

127 ms · $0.000179
/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 medicare.gov'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://medicare.gov/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What medicare.gov costs

Multiplied from the measured 3.1 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 3.1 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000179
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.005376
1,000 pages this size 3.0 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.18
10,000 pages this size 30.1 MB at the measured price ≈ $1.79

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 medicare.gov.

The capture above took 127 ms and cost $0.000179. The same call takes any URL on medicare.gov.

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