GET packetstream.io HTTP 200145 ms10.6 KB$0.000121 captured Aug 10, 2026
packetstream.io, as data
One API turns any packetstream.io 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.
- Render mode
- Plain HTTP, no browser needed
- Response
- HTTP 200 in 145 ms
- Page size
- 10.6 KB of markdown, 166 lines
- Fields
- Business Name, Address, Phone, Category and 2 more
- Captured
- Aug 10, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This packetstream.io page cost $0.000121 to fetch.
## Common questions.PacketStream is a peer-to-peer residential proxy network. Real users around the world (“Packeters”) run the desktop app, and businesses route traffic through those household connections with country targeting.How is this different from data-center proxies?Data-center ranges are published, so a site can block an entire provider with one rule — which is why a cheap proxy pool works for a week and then returns nothing but 403s. PacketStream exits are ordinary household connections, so there is no block-the-whole-range shortcut.Proxy bandwidth is metered at $1.00/GB with a $50 minimum purchase and no subscription. Purchased balance does not expire.How do rotating and sticky sessions work?Automatic rotation selects a residential exit for each new proxy connection. Add a session ID to keep the same exit for up to 60 minutes. A sticky session stays tied to that one household for its lifetime, so it ends rather than continuing under a different identity.Can I trust that a response came from the country I asked for?Yes. Country targeting uses ISO two-letter codes, and a response only ever comes back from the country you specified. Where an exit is not available in that country, you get an error rather than a quiet substitution — so the data you collect always matches the location you targeted.Yes. Submit the trial request form or email support with your use case. Support reviews each request; approval and credit amount are discretionary.## Field notes on proxies & scraping.[Jul 17, 2026### How HTTP Connection Pooling Affects Residential Proxy RotationRead article](https://packetstream.io/how-http-connection-pooling-affects-proxy-rotation/)[Jul 9, 2026### How to Estimate Proxy Bandwidth Before Scaling a Scraping ProjectWhat Spider does on packetstream.io
Same key, five endpoints. The numbers under a cell were measured on this page.
Page to markdown
Clean text for RAG and LLM context, boilerplate removed. The lane that runs without a key.
145 ms · $0.000121Page to JSON
Spider reads the page and names the fields. Pass your own schema when you need exact keys.
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.
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://packetstream.io/", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://packetstream.io/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://packetstream.io/", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What packetstream.io costs
Multiplied from the measured 10.6 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.
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 packetstream.io.
The capture above took 145 ms and cost $0.000121. The same call takes any URL on packetstream.io.