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ons.gov.uk · HTTP 200

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Spider read ons.gov.uk in 390 ms without a browser and returned 219 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Main figures", "Employment" and "Inflation".

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Response ons.gov.uk/index.md markdown · 219 lines 
- 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.
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The same call, in code.

The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on ons.gov.uk.

ons-gov-uk-scraper.ts 
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://ons.gov.uk");

// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser, no selectors

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Fields you can pull.

TitleDepartmentDateDescriptionDocument URLCategory

Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.

What ons.gov.uk costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000134 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.

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Run it keyless, no account 

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://ons.gov.uk/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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