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GET weather.gov/nws HTTP 20057 ms6.8 KB$0.000195 captured Aug 7, 2026

National Weather Service, as data

One API turns any National Weather Service 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 57 ms
Page size
6.8 KB of markdown, 140 lines
Fields
Zone forecast, Hazard outlook, Watches, Warnings and 3 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This National Weather Service page cost $0.000195 to fetch.

response 200 · 57 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 National Weather Service

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.

57 ms · $0.000195
/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/nws'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"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What National Weather Service 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 $0.000195
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.005861
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 ≈ $1.95

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 weather.gov/nws.

The capture above took 57 ms and cost $0.000195. The same call takes any URL on weather.gov/nws.

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