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GET myexternalip.com HTTP 200211 ms10.7 KB$0.000084 captured Aug 7, 2026

myexternalip.com, as data

One API turns any myexternalip.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 211 ms
Page size
10.7 KB of markdown, 324 lines
Fields
Business Name, Address, Phone, Category and 1 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This myexternalip.com page cost $0.000084 to fetch.

response 200 · 211 ms · 10.7 KB
2015-02-23 Added: Erlang and Elixir samples2015-01-07 Enabled: ipv4.myexternalip.com and ipv6.myexternalip.com.I switched on ipv4.myexternalip.com which answers only to requests coming in via IPv4.ipv6.myexternalip.com will do the same for IPv6. This might come in handy when you test your2014-12-08 myexternalip.com in the wildHere are some clever uses of myexternalip.com I've seen in the wild:* [ipgetter - Utility to fetch your external IPaddress](https://github.com/phoemur/ipgetter)* [Dyn53 - Update DNS records dynamically withRoute 53](https://github.com/onigoetz/dyn53)DNS - Tom CHapman's Blog](http://tom-chapman.uk/2014/03/18/cloudflare-and-dynamic-dns/)Forum](http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/support/server-support/2077893-help-with-my-server)PI - direct webserver (JBoss) to URL](http://www.mashupnerd.com/2013/02/10/raspberry-pi-direct-webserver-jboss-to-url/)2014-12-04 Support for JSON / JSON-PI added support for JSON / JSON-P to make retrieving the IP via Javascript a little bit easier.* JSON: http://myexternalip.com/json* JSON-P: http://myexternalip.com/json?jsonp=yourCallback2014-08-26 Flattr and throttleFlattr: I created a flattr-account and start accepting(small, big, does not matter). If you want to donate by other means: contact me.Throttle: some folks out there have either running curlin a while-loop or a crazy understanding of how often their external ip changes or they needtool to help keeping a line busy. Whatever the case might be: 20+ requests / second is way tooand thus I decided to throttle the answer a little bit. The good folks among you won't hardlyit at all, the .. strange .. folks might.2014-03-11 Introducing access rateUsually this service runs very low profile and without much handholding. Recently I watched atload and then on some logs and on some more logs and on some tcpdumps: One machine out there
POST /scrape · myexternalip.com/index.md · markdown · Showing 28 of 324 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on myexternalip.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.

211 ms · $0.000084
/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 myexternalip.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://myexternalip.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What myexternalip.com costs

Multiplied from the measured 10.7 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 10.7 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000084
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.002532
1,000 pages this size 10.5 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.08
10,000 pages this size 104.6 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.84

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 myexternalip.com.

The capture above took 211 ms and cost $0.000084. The same call takes any URL on myexternalip.com.

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