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GET met.police.uk HTTP 200141 ms4.8 KB$0.000295 captured Aug 7, 2026

met.police.uk, as data

One API turns any met.police.uk 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 141 ms
Page size
4.8 KB of markdown, 78 lines
Fields
Title, Content, Date, Source and 1 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This met.police.uk page cost $0.000295 to fetch.

response 200 · 141 ms · 4.8 KB
Current timestamp: 07/08/2026 13:31:12## CookiesWe use some essential cookies to make our website work. We’d like to set additional cookies so we can remember your preferences and understand how you use our site.Sorry, there was a technical problem. Please try again.# Welcome to the Metropolitan Police website## WelcomeThis site is a beta, which means it's a work in progress and we'll be adding more to it over the next few weeks. Your feedback helps us make things better, so please let us know what you think.## What's happening in your area?Find your local officer, get the latest crime statistics and advice, help us with appeals for information and find out what we’re doing to tackle crime in your area.### Find your area## From the Met* ### Stay informed with Met Engage Sign up for crime alerts, safety advice and local news. * Campaigns* ### A New Met for London The next phase of our plan to make the Met an outstanding local police service for London. * About us* ### Be Switched On Phone thieves don’t just want your phone; they want access to your bank accounts, documents and identity. Whichever phone you use, it is quick and easy to activate your phone’s in-built anti-theft protection. * Campaigns* ### Become a police constable We offer multiple entry routes to join us as a regular or volunteer police constable. * Careers* ### Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) action plan Find out what we've been doing to tackle VAWG.* ### MPS Drugs Action Plan The plan reflects our commitment to core policing and to addressing London’s evolving drugs threat. * About us* ### The Stop and Search Charter The Charter is an agreement between the Met and Londoners to ensure Stop and Search is used fairly, appropriately and accurately. * About usIs there a problem with this page?
POST /scrape · met.police.uk/index.md · markdown · 78 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on met.police.uk

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.

141 ms · $0.000295
/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 met.police.uk'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://met.police.uk/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What met.police.uk costs

Multiplied from the measured 4.8 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 4.8 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000295
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.008838
1,000 pages this size 4.7 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.29
10,000 pages this size 47.3 MB at the measured price ≈ $2.95

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 met.police.uk.

The capture above took 141 ms and cost $0.000295. The same call takes any URL on met.police.uk.

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