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met.police.uk · HTTP 200

Police Scraper

Spider read met.police.uk in 141 ms without a browser and returned 78 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Welcome to the Metropolitan Police website", "Welcome" and "What's happening in your area?".

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Response met.police.uk/index.md markdown · 78 lines
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?
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The same call, in code.

The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on met.police.uk.

met-police-uk-scraper.ts
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://met.police.uk");

// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser, no selectors

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Fields you can pull.

TitleContentDateSourceCategory

Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.

What met.police.uk costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000295 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.

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Run it keyless, no account

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://met.police.uk/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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