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GET observer.co.uk HTTP 200163 ms24.4 KB$0.002629 captured Aug 7, 2026

observer.co.uk, as data

One API turns any observer.co.uk 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 163 ms
Page size
24.4 KB of markdown, 373 lines
Fields
Title, Content, Date, Source
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This observer.co.uk page cost $0.002629 to fetch.

response 200 · 163 ms · 24.4 KB
News, culture and style | The ObserverEducation ### Classroom wars Education is too important to be a political football, but there is a complacency amongst those defending the status quo. Andy Burnham must seize his chance to reinvent our schools By Rachel SylvesterRussia #### The woman who took on Putin Maria Andreyevna tells Åsne Seierstad how her vocal opposition to the mobilisation of Russian men to fight in Ukraine has led to her losing her job and her freedom Data centres #### Battle of Brick Lane Residents are outraged the government has overruled council objections to approve a new server farm in the heart of London’s Bengali community. It is an early test of the Burnham agenda, Evan Moffitt reports Football #### Time to chill Chelsea are searching for calm and consistency amid another summer spending splurge. Xabi Alonso will have to contend with a bloated squad, George Simms writes### For todayData centres Isabel Coles ###### The opposition to an east London data centre forms part of a global backlash Architecture Rowan Moore ###### How Iran became the frontline of modern architecture Body politic Lily Isaacs ###### Ariana Grande exposes a double standard in a slimming world Film Wendy Ide ###### The Summer Book review – this Tove Jansson adaptation is a masterclass in restraint### Time well spentFurther reading #### From Cicero to Susie Dent Your essential guide from The Observer’s books desk Further watching #### From Possession to Ted Lasso The Observer’s TV critic Barbara Ellen on the best new shows airing and streaming Further listening #### Pop duets that are more than the sums of their parts Our critic picks five tracks that have been embellished thanks to other artists### CultureMusic Kitty Empire ###### Cate Le Bon is a pop star from a parallel world Books Ammar Kalia ###### The life and death of dubstep Theatre Fiona Maddocks ###### Tao of Glass – Philip Glass inspires a theatrical wonder Books Edith Hall ###### Cicero: A Roman tragedy
POST /scrape · observer.co.uk/index.md · markdown · Showing 9 of 373 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on observer.co.uk

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.

163 ms · $0.002629
/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 observer.co.uk'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://observer.co.uk/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What observer.co.uk costs

Multiplied from the measured 24.4 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 24.4 KB over HTTP, measured $0.002629
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.08
1,000 pages this size 23.8 MB at the measured price ≈ $2.63
10,000 pages this size 238.0 MB at the measured price ≈ $26.29

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 observer.co.uk.

The capture above took 163 ms and cost $0.002629. The same call takes any URL on observer.co.uk.

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