GET pcre.org HTTP 200110 ms5.8 KB$0.000032 captured Aug 7, 2026
pcre.org, as data
One API turns any pcre.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.
- Render mode
- Plain HTTP, no browser needed
- Response
- HTTP 200 in 110 ms
- Page size
- 5.8 KB of markdown, 102 lines
- Fields
- Business Name, Address, Phone, Category
- Captured
- Aug 7, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This pcre.org page cost $0.000032 to fetch.
# PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular ExpressionsThe PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regularexpression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics asPerl5. PCRE has its own native API, as well as a set ofwrapper functions that correspond to the POSIX regular expressionAPI. The PCRE library is free, even for building proprietaryPCRE was originally written for thebut is now used by many high-profile open source projects, includingPCRE has also found its way into some well known commercial products, likeApple Safari, and is widely used in website monitoring and load testing tools for its ability to perform complex pattern matching in HTTP responses and validate content structure.Some other interesting projects using PCRE include## VersionsThere are two major versions of the PCRE library. The currentThe older, but still widely deployed PCRE library, originallyreleased in 1997, is at version **8.45**. This version of PCRE isnow at end of life, and is no longer being actively maintained. Version8.45 is expected to be the final release of the older PCRE library,and new projects should use PCRE2 instead. However, it's still found in various legacy systems and some platforms, including certain services that continue to use the original PCRE for compatibility reasons.## DownloadYou can download the current release of the PCRE2 library on GitHub:* **https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2/releases**You can also download the older, unmaintained PCRE library from* https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcre/files/You can check out the PCRE2 source code via Git:`> git clone https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2.gitNote that the former ftp.pcre.org FTP site is no longeravailable, and that PCRE2 releases will no longer be kept up to dateon SourceForge. Any scripts that download PCRE source code should use### Contributed PortsIf you just need the command-line PCRE or PCRE2 tools on Windows,What Spider does on pcre.org
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.
110 ms · $0.000032Page 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://pcre.org/", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://pcre.org/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://pcre.org/", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What pcre.org costs
Multiplied from the measured 5.8 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 pcre.org.
The capture above took 110 ms and cost $0.000032. The same call takes any URL on pcre.org.