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GET newscientist.com HTTP 200149 ms18.2 KB$0.000327 captured Aug 7, 2026

newscientist.com, as data

One API turns any newscientist.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 149 ms
Page size
18.2 KB of markdown, 325 lines
Fields
Title, Authors, Abstract, Journal
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This newscientist.com page cost $0.000327 to fetch.

response 200 · 149 ms · 18.2 KB
Online ### Darwin, Wallace, and the joint discovery of natural selection Online 3 September 2026Online ### Chasing totality: How to view and photograph the 2026 solar eclipse Online On Demand EventListen to our weekly science and technology round-up show, as well as your other favourite New Scientist podcasts#### Change your mind ### Caffeine – Could Your Morning Coffee be Protecting Your Brain? Podcast#### Change your mind ### Bonus Brain Tips – How to maintain your friendships and how to use sunlight to get better sleep Podcast#### Change your mind ### Bonus Brain Tips – How To Hack Your Nap and How to Beat Chronic Stress PodcastExplore all of our podcasts New episodes every week, available wherever you listen to podcasts## Video### Watch the latest science news, discoveries and big ideas from New Scientist’s video team* [ Video ## The paradox that breaks the laws of physics | John Goold Video](https://www.newscientist.com/video/2583218-2583218/)* [ Video ## The biggest mysteries in physics may have one answer Video](https://www.newscientist.com/video/2582019-the-biggest-mysteries-in-physics-may-have-one-answer/)* [ Video ## We still don’t know how black holes get so big | Becky Smethurst Video](https://www.newscientist.com/video/2580686-we-still-dont-know-how-black-holes-get-so-big-becky-smethurst/)* [ Video ## “Physics is the antagonist” in Claire North’s space opera Slow Gods Video](https://www.newscientist.com/video/2580111-physics-is-the-antagonist-in-claire-norths-space-opera-slow-gods/)* [ Video ## The Dinosaur Extinction Was More Complicated Than You Think Video](https://www.newscientist.com/video/2579776-the-dinosaur-extinction-was-more-complicated-than-you-think/)* [ Video ## The physicist trying to solve the gravity question Video](https://www.newscientist.com/video/2533453-the-physicist-trying-to-solve-the-gravity-question/)
POST /scrape · newscientist.com/index.md · markdown · Showing 15 of 325 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on newscientist.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.

149 ms · $0.000327
/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 newscientist.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://newscientist.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What newscientist.com costs

Multiplied from the measured 18.2 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 18.2 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000327
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.009809
1,000 pages this size 17.7 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.33
10,000 pages this size 177.5 MB at the measured price ≈ $3.27

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 newscientist.com.

The capture above took 149 ms and cost $0.000327. The same call takes any URL on newscientist.com.

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