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GET metacritic.com HTTP 200151 ms62.7 KB$0.002375 captured Aug 7, 2026

metacritic.com, as data

One API turns any metacritic.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.

target profile from the capture
Render mode
Plain HTTP, no browser needed
Response
HTTP 200 in 151 ms
Page size
62.7 KB of markdown, 966 lines
Fields
Game title, Metascore, User score, Platform and 4 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This metacritic.com page cost $0.002375 to fetch.

response 200 · 151 ms · 62.7 KB
* Each review is scored based on its overall quality.* The summarized weighted average captures the essence of critical opinion.Learn More## Latest News### Every Game Available for Xbox Game Pass #### Jason Dietz Find an up-to-date list of every game available in the Xbox Game Pass (and PC Game Pass) library at all membership levels, and find out which games are coming soon and leaving soon. * game### 2026-27 Movie Release Calendar #### Jason Dietz Find a schedule of release dates for every movie coming to theaters, VOD, and streaming throughout 2026 and beyond, updated daily. * movie### Notable Video Game Releases: New and Upcoming #### Jason Dietz Find release dates and scores for every major upcoming and recent video game release for all platforms, updated several times per week. * game### What to Watch on Paramount+ Right Now #### Jason Dietz Find a list of the best movies and TV shows recently added to Paramount+ and Paramount+ With Showtime, plus a list of titles coming soon to the streaming services. * tv show### What to Watch on Netflix Right Now #### Jason Dietz Get a list of the best movies and TV shows recently added (and coming soon) to Netflix, updated frequently. You can also find a list of titles leaving Netflix this month. * tv show### New Free & Subscription Games for All Platforms #### Jason Dietz Our frequently updated list shows the latest free games available from Epic Games Store, IndieGala, Steam, Fanatical, GOG, and more as well as new and upcoming titles added to subscription services like Game Pass, PlayStation Plus, Amazon Prime (Luna), and Humble. * game### What to Watch on Apple TV Right Now #### Jason Dietz Get a list of the best movie and TV titles recently added (and coming soon) to Apple TV, updated frequently. * tv show
POST /scrape · metacritic.com/index.md · markdown · Showing 10 of 966 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on metacritic.com

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.

151 ms · $0.002375
/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 metacritic.com'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://metacritic.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What metacritic.com costs

Multiplied from the measured 62.7 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 62.7 KB over HTTP, measured $0.002375
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.07
1,000 pages this size 61.2 MB at the measured price ≈ $2.37
10,000 pages this size 612.4 MB at the measured price ≈ $23.75

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 metacritic.com.

The capture above took 151 ms and cost $0.002375. The same call takes any URL on metacritic.com.

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