GET ons.gov.uk HTTP 200390 ms8.1 KB$0.000134 captured Aug 7, 2026

ons.gov.uk, as data

One API turns any ons.gov.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 390 ms
Page size: 8.1 KB of markdown, 219 lines
Fields: Title, Department, Date, Description and 2 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This ons.gov.uk page cost $0.000134 to fetch.

response 200 · 390 ms · 8.1 KB

- Office for National StatisticsData and analysis from Census 2021# Main figuresFrom our time series explorer## EmploymentAged 16 to 64 seasonally adjusted (Mar - May 2026)Aged 16+ seasonally adjusted (Mar - May 2026)## Inflation## GDP## UK populationWe are improving the ONS website, with brand new navigation, page designs and content.Explore the ONS preview siteView all of our releases by date## Taking part in a survey? It's never been more important.# In focus</h2>A guide to data, statistics and the ONSWatch our video to find out how we at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) collect and use data to produce statistics.Statistics from across the UKHow to use statistics produced by government and devolved administrations.What the census is, why it’s important and our plans for 2031.Economic statistics and surveys improvement planLatest quarterly update for surveys and economic statistics.# Around the ONS</h2>Find, compare and visualise statistics about places within the United Kingdom.Other government statisticsOfficial Statistics available from across government.Navigating Numbers - the ONS data education programmeFind out how to use the toolkits in our data education programme.Find out how ONS secure data could help your research project.

POST /scrape · ons.gov.uk/index.md · markdown · 219 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on ons.gov.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.

390 ms · $0.000134

/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 ons.gov.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://ons.gov.uk/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What ons.gov.uk costs

Multiplied from the measured 8.1 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 8.1 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000134

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.004029

1,000 pages this size 7.9 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.13

10,000 pages this size 79.5 MB at the measured price ≈ $1.34

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 390 ms and cost $0.000134. The same call takes any URL on ons.gov.uk.

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