GET newspapers.com HTTP 200626 ms4.7 KB$0.001028 captured Aug 7, 2026
newspapers.com, as data
One API turns any newspapers.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.
- Render mode
- Plain HTTP, no browser needed
- Response
- HTTP 200 in 626 ms
- Page size
- 4.7 KB of markdown, 62 lines
- Fields
- Headline, Summary, Author, Published Date
- Captured
- Aug 7, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This newspapers.com page cost $0.001028 to fetch.
# The past: read all about it.Bloomington, Illinois](https://www.newspapers.com/paper/the-pantagraph/3152/)## Headline from Aug 6, 1920## 144-Year-Old Man Attends Independence Day CelebrationFound in Greeley Daily Tribune (Greeley, Colorado)## The Fishwrap Blog[### The Explosive History of Bannerman IslandNear West Point, rising from the waters of the Hudson River, sits a Scottish castle in ruins. To passing commuters, it looks like the remnant](https://blog.newspapers.com/the-explosive-history-of-bannerman-island/)## Gift a Newspapers.com Subscription## Start your step-by-step search guide## Never miss a discovery.NewGet notified when we add new pages that match your search.## Search by location## Clip Articles, Obituaries, Photos, and moreClippings are an easy way to keep track of interesting things you find on Newspapers.com™. With a Newspapers.com™ account you can clip an article or an entire page, and once its clipped, you can easily find it again or share it with friends. You can also follow a newspaper, follow another member's profile, or save a search—and receive notifications when they're updated.The Newspapers.com™ viewer is a powerful tool that lets you explore a newspaper page in detail, clip a page or article, and print, save, or share what you find. When you find something on Newspapers.com that you would like to have a copy of, you can print the image directly from the viewer or you can download the image and save a digital copy.## About Newspapers.com™**The largest online newspaper archive**, established in 2012. Used by millions for genealogy and family history, historical research, true crime, journalism, and entertainment. Search for obituaries, marriage announcements, birth announcements, social pages, national and local news articles, sports, advertisements, entertainment, fashion and lifestyle pages, comics, and more. Everything you’d expect in the paper—and maybe something you didn't!What Spider does on newspapers.com
Same key, five endpoints. The numbers under a cell were measured on this page.
Page to markdown
Clean text for RAG and LLM context, boilerplate removed. The lane that runs without a key.
626 ms · $0.001028Page to JSON
Spider reads the page and names the fields. Pass your own schema when you need exact keys.
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.
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://newspapers.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://newspapers.com/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://newspapers.com/", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What newspapers.com costs
Multiplied from the measured 4.7 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.
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 newspapers.com.
The capture above took 626 ms and cost $0.001028. The same call takes any URL on newspapers.com.