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GET pcgamer.com HTTP 2001.3 s202.7 KB$0.002761 captured Aug 7, 2026

pcgamer.com, as data

One API turns any pcgamer.com 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 1.3 s
Page size
202.7 KB of markdown, 2,271 lines
Fields
Article title, Score, Author, Publish date and 3 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This pcgamer.com page cost $0.002761 to fetch.

response 200 · 1.3 s · 202.7 KB
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.* Hackers claim they've breached a Chinese supercomputer and are demanding huge amounts of crypto for the data, but security researchers are sceptical* A renowned New York Times investigative reporter thinks British cryptographer is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, said cryptographer says no* Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.5 site teases a potential return to the void for its next expansion* Top dollar for top cache: AMD's dual 3D V-Cache Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 will sell for a wallet-burning $899* US victims lost nearly $21 billion to cybercrime last year says FBI with crypto and AI 'complaints among the costliest'* Crimson Desert might have an enemy density problem, fans worry as they approach endgame* Use this handy cheat sheet to keep track of all those confusing Samsung QD-OLED gaming monitor panel generations* It's a RAMpocalypse-buster: Even though it's two bucks over $900, this RTX 5060 gaming PC actually comes with 32 GB of DRAM and a 1 TB SSD* South Korea takes one look at rising PC costs and decides to hand out free PCs to citizens* The devs behind Peak and Content Warning made a publisher to support their games and other indie developers: 'We help them with money and advice'* Crimson Desert lets you watch NPCs build statues and bridges in real-time which Kingdom Come: Deliverance director thinks is 'absolutely insane'* After a Redditor said there's a 'zero percent chance' of porting macOS to a Wii, one developer went and did it anyway* Whoopsie: Microsoft has been shipping Xbox controllers without batteries and is now compensating customers with rechargeable kits* Project Zomboid identifies and bans over a dozen Steam Workshop mods containing 'heavily obfuscated code' that was 'creating malicious files'
POST /scrape · pcgamer.com/news/archive/2026/04.md · markdown · Showing 15 of 2,271 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on pcgamer.com

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.

1.3 s · $0.002761
/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 pcgamer.com'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://www.pcgamer.com/news/archive/2026/04/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What pcgamer.com costs

Multiplied from the measured 202.7 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 202.7 KB over HTTP, measured $0.002761
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.08
1,000 pages this size 198.0 MB at the measured price ≈ $2.76
10,000 pages this size 1979.6 MB at the measured price ≈ $27.61

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.

Point this at the rest of pcgamer.com.

The capture above took 1.3 s and cost $0.002761. The same call takes any URL on pcgamer.com.

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