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GET metro.co.uk HTTP 2001.7 s13.9 KB$0.000464 captured Aug 7, 2026

metro.co.uk, as data

One API turns any metro.co.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 1.7 s
Page size
13.9 KB of markdown, 120 lines
Fields
Headline, Summary, Author, Published Date and 1 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This metro.co.uk page cost $0.000464 to fetch.

response 200 · 1.7 s · 13.9 KB
She then explained: ‘I want to be clear that I intend to use these proceeds of my work, as well as my public platform generally, to go on supporting Palestine Action and direct action against genocide in whatever way I can.’Rooney also wrote how she believed the ‘present UK government has willingly stripped its own citizens of basic rights and freedoms, including the right to express and read dissenting opinions, in order to protect its relationship with Israel’.Her best-selling novels Normal People and Conversations with Friends were made into BBC TV series’ (Picture: BBC/ Element Pictures/ Hulu)‘The ramifications for cultural and intellectual life in the UK… are and will be profound,’ she added.In a statement Downing Street has told several media publications that ‘support for a proscribed organisation is an offence under the Terrorism Act’.Funding the group can now carry up to 14 years imprisonment under the Terrorism Act 2000.However, the group are not banned under Irish law, where Rooney lives.In a statement to Metro, a BBC spokesperson said: ‘Matters relating to proscribed organisations are for the relevant authorities.’More than 500 people were arrested in London over the weekend after attending a Palestine Action protest (Picture: Tolga Akmen/ EPA)It is understood the BBC is not currently working with Rooney on any upcoming projects and has never been a staff member at the national broadcaster.### Tom Holland and Zendaya marry in £500,000 countryside celebration with strict rule2. Perez Hilton's family reveal his children fled home during distressing livestream3. Greg James and wife hit back at critics as they grieve death of dog4. Tom Holland's shocking Spider-Man salary revealed as it smashes box office record
POST /scrape · metro.co.uk/2025/08/19/normal-people-author-risks-arrested-support-proscribed-terrorist-group-23947057.md · markdown · Showing 14 of 120 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on metro.co.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.

1.7 s · $0.000464
/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 metro.co.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://metro.co.uk/2025/08/19/normal-people-author-risks-arrested-support-proscribed-terrorist-group-23947057/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What metro.co.uk costs

Multiplied from the measured 13.9 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 13.9 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000464
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.01
1,000 pages this size 13.6 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.46
10,000 pages this size 136.0 MB at the measured price ≈ $4.64

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 metro.co.uk.

The capture above took 1.7 s and cost $0.000464. The same call takes any URL on metro.co.uk.

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