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GET parliament.uk HTTP 200578 ms10.7 KB$0.00023 captured Aug 7, 2026

parliament.uk, as data

One API turns any parliament.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 578 ms
Page size
10.7 KB of markdown, 194 lines
Fields
Title, Department, Date, Description and 2 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This parliament.uk page cost $0.00023 to fetch.

response 200 · 578 ms · 10.7 KB
# UK ParliamentLatest news from the House of Commons and Houses of Lords.Environment and Climate Change Committee calls for checks on pet parasite medication Environment and Climate Change Committee publish report on pet parasite medication 04 August 2026What are government’s plans for science, innovation and tech policy? Committee seeks explanation After the Government announced plans to break up the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) 04 August 2026Justice and Home Affairs Committee launches new inquiry into support for jurors in England and Wales Justice Committee opens juror support inquiry 30 July 2026Afghan allies left in danger by years of delay, secrecy and flawed decisions, MPs warn Afghans who worked with UK forces were wrongly refused relocation and left facing years of danger, delay and uncertainty. 29 July 2026Book a tour of the Palace of Westminster Visit Parliament this summer 29 July 2026‘This time, it needs to be different’: Layla Moran MP reacts to today’s social care announcement Layla Moran MP, responds to today’s announcements regarding social care in England 29 July 2026## What's on in the House of Commons and House of LordsWhat's on in the House of Commons and House of Lords.View the full Parliamentary calendar## WatchWatch live and archived coverage of all UK Parliament proceedings taking place in public.Live feeds of debates and committee meetings on Parliament TV. Also access videos of debates and committee meetings dating back to December 2007.UK Parliament YouTube Watch the latest videos about the work of Parliament on our official YouTube channel## DevelopersDeveloper hub Resources for developers, including a directory of open data APIs which allow Parliamentary data to be shared publicly## Other Parliamentary resourcesWritten questions, answers and statements Find written questions and answers, as well as written statements
POST /scrape · parliament.uk/index.md · markdown · Showing 19 of 194 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on parliament.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.

578 ms · $0.00023
/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 parliament.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://parliament.uk/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What parliament.uk 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 $0.00023
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.006899
1,000 pages this size 10.5 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.23
10,000 pages this size 104.5 MB at the measured price ≈ $2.30

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 parliament.uk.

The capture above took 578 ms and cost $0.00023. The same call takes any URL on parliament.uk.

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