GET weather.gov HTTP 200284 ms6.8 KB$0.000198 captured Aug 7, 2026

weather.gov, as data

One API turns any weather.gov 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 284 ms
Page size: 6.8 KB of markdown, 140 lines
Fields: Forecast, Temperature, Wind, Precipitation chance and 4 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This weather.gov page cost $0.000198 to fetch.

response 200 · 284 ms · 6.8 KB

* Damage/Fatality/Injury StatisticsSorry, the location you searched for was not found. Please try another search.Multiple locations were found. Please select one of the following:# Showers and Storms in the East; Dangerously Hot and Dry in the WestScattered showers and storms are expected across portions of the Central and Eastern U.S. through the end of the week. Meanwhile, dangerous heat will intensify across the Desert Southwest and Intermountain West. Hot, dry weather and increasing winds will allow elevated wildfire conditions to return to the northern Intermountain West, where air quality issues persist from ongoing fires.* Standard Radar (Low Bandwidth)Click on the map above for detailed alertsPublic Alerts in XML/CAP v1.2 and ATOM Formats[Severe Thunderstorm Warning](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Severe Thunderstorm Warning>)[Flash Flood Warning](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Flash Flood Warning>)[Severe Weather Statement](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Severe Weather Statement>)[Flood Warning](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Flood Warning>)[Extreme Heat Warning](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Extreme Heat Warning>)[Severe Thunderstorm Watch](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Severe Thunderstorm Watch>)[Red Flag Warning](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Red Flag Warning>)[Heat Advisory](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Heat Advisory>)[Flood Advisory](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Flood Advisory>)[Small Craft Advisory](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Small Craft Advisory>)[Rip Current Statement](<https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Rip Current Statement>)

POST /scrape · weather.gov/index.md · markdown · Showing 19 of 140 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on weather.gov

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.

284 ms · $0.000198

/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 weather.gov'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://weather.gov/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What weather.gov costs

Multiplied from the measured 6.8 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 6.8 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000198

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.005945

1,000 pages this size 6.6 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.20

10,000 pages this size 66.3 MB at the measured price ≈ $1.98

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 284 ms and cost $0.000198. The same call takes any URL on weather.gov.

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