GET openfoodfacts.org HTTP 200301 ms1.8 KB$0.001248 captured Aug 7, 2026

openfoodfacts.org, as data

One API turns any openfoodfacts.org 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 301 ms
Page size: 1.8 KB of markdown, 32 lines
Fields: Recipe Name, Ingredients, Cook Time, Servings and 1 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This openfoodfacts.org page cost $0.001248 to fetch.

response 200 · 301 ms · 1.8 KB

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POST /scrape · openfoodfacts.org/index.md · markdown · 32 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on openfoodfacts.org

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.

301 ms · $0.001248

/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 openfoodfacts.org'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://openfoodfacts.org/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What openfoodfacts.org costs

Multiplied from the measured 1.8 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 1.8 KB over HTTP, measured $0.001248

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.04

1,000 pages this size 1.8 MB at the measured price ≈ $1.25

10,000 pages this size 17.5 MB at the measured price ≈ $12.48

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 301 ms and cost $0.001248. The same call takes any URL on openfoodfacts.org.

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