GET orcid.org HTTP 200262 ms10.7 KB$0.000261 captured Aug 7, 2026

orcid.org, as data

One API turns any orcid.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 262 ms
Page size: 10.7 KB of markdown, 76 lines
Fields: Researcher name, ORCID iD, Affiliation, Publications and 4 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This orcid.org page cost $0.000261 to fetch.

response 200 · 262 ms · 10.7 KB

“Chancellor Award””Second Place Abstract Award Winner””University Gold Medal””Best conference paper prize”Paid or gratis membership of a society or association (i.e. does not include honorary memberships and fellowships as defined under Invited Position and Distinctions)Member of an association or society“Life member””Associate Member”Significant donations of time, money, or other resources to an organization or community. Includes volunteer work such as society officer positions, agricultural extension work, other voluntary workStandards body, expert panel, study group, conference organizer, conference panel chair, committee work, project work, volunteer society officer, elected board position“Project group member””Community Manager””National Advisory Committee member”Contributions to the growth, development, commissioning, and publication of a journal. May be paid or unpaidEditorial board, editorial team member, guest editor“Editorial board member” “Associate editor”# General guidelines* Each affiliation should have a start date, and if appropriate, an end date – this makes it easier to calculate which affiliations are current.* End dates should be added for any researchers that have resigned, retired or that are now deceased.* End dates do not have to be added for any researcher that is on a secondment placement or on sabbatical leave.* Each affiliation should have an Organization ID, such as a ROR ID* We recommend that the parent organization (and not the division or department) organization is used within the affiliation. Department information can be added in a separate field.* Organization IDs are mandatory when adding using the ORCID API, but optional when adding manually using the user interface – it is added for the researcher selects their organization from a drop down.# Related links* Blog post announcing new affiliation types* Working with organization identifiers

POST /scrape · info.orcid.org/documentation/integration-guide/admin-guide-to-affiliations.md · markdown · Showing 20 of 76 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on orcid.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.

262 ms · $0.000261

/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 orcid.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://info.orcid.org/documentation/integration-guide/admin-guide-to-affiliations/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://info.orcid.org/documentation/integration-guide/admin-guide-to-affiliations/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])

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

const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://info.orcid.org/documentation/integration-guide/admin-guide-to-affiliations/", {
  return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What orcid.org costs

Multiplied from the measured 10.7 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 10.7 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000261

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.007819

1,000 pages this size 10.4 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.26

10,000 pages this size 104.4 MB at the measured price ≈ $2.61

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 262 ms and cost $0.000261. The same call takes any URL on orcid.org.

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