GET motherjones.com HTTP 200181 ms267.8 KB$0.000429 captured Aug 7, 2026

motherjones.com, as data

One API turns any motherjones.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 181 ms
Page size: 267.8 KB of markdown, 2,141 lines
Fields: Headline, Author, Published date, Section and 4 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This motherjones.com page cost $0.000429 to fetch.

response 200 · 181 ms · 267.8 KB

<html lang="en-US" class="no-js mj-www">A Photographer’s View of ICE’s Relentless Courthouse Arrests </a><p class="byline"><span class="byline-override">Text and Photographs by Victor J. Blue</span></p> </div><section id="Homepage_BTF_970x250_Wrapper" class="ad hidden-sm hidden-xs hidden-xxs"><!-- Tag ID: motherjones_homepage_leaderboard_btf_4 -->placementName: "motherjones_homepage_leaderboard_btf_4",slotId: "Homepage_BTF_970x250"<section class="ad footer-ad mobile_ad"><!-- Tag ID: motherjones_homepage_mobile_4 --><div id="Mobile_Footer_300x250_Homepage">placementName: "motherjones_homepage_mobile_4",slotId: "Mobile_Footer_300x250_Homepage"<div id="site-footer-promos" class="grid"><section id="custom_html-11" class="widget_text widget widget_custom_html"><h2 class="widget-title">Mag Promo</h2><div class="textwidget custom-html-widget"><div id="footer-promo-mag" class="grid"><h3>Independent. In print. In your mailbox.</h3><p>Inexpensive, too! Subscribe today and get a full year of <em>Mother Jones</em> for just $19.95.</p><a href="https://secure.motherjones.com/flex/MOJ/SUBS/?p=SEGHGP&c=SEGHGC&d=SEGHGD&f=SEGHGF" title="Subscribe" data-ga-label="MagazineSubscribeClick" data-ga-category="BottomPromo"><button class="btn-primary">Subscribe</button></a><div class="col-sm-8 col-xs-12 grid"><div class="mag-promo col-xs-4 col-xxs-12"><a href="/mag/2026/07/toc/" data-ga-category="BottomPromo" data-ga-label="MagazineSubscribeMagCover_1|imageClick"><a href="/mag/2026/07/toc" data-ga-category="BottomPromo" data-ga-label="MagazineSubscribeMagCover_1|textClick">August 2026</a><div class="mag-promo col-xs-4 hidden-xxs-12"><a href="/mag/2026/05/toc/" data-ga-category="BottomPromo" data-ga-label="MagazineSubscribeMagCover_2|imageClick"><a href="/mag/2026/05/toc" data-ga-category="BottomPromo" data-ga-label="MagazineSubscribeMagCover_2|textClick">June 2026</a>

POST /scrape · motherjones.com/index.md · markdown · Showing 22 of 2,141 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on motherjones.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.

181 ms · $0.000429

/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 motherjones.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://motherjones.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://motherjones.com/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])

import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";

const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://motherjones.com/", {
  return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What motherjones.com costs

Multiplied from the measured 267.8 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 267.8 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000429

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.01

1,000 pages this size 261.6 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.43

10,000 pages this size 2615.6 MB at the measured price ≈ $4.29

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.

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The capture above took 181 ms and cost $0.000429. The same call takes any URL on motherjones.com.

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