GET pdflib.com HTTP 2002.2 s4.8 KB$0.000221 captured Aug 7, 2026

pdflib.com, as data

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Render mode: Plain HTTP, no browser needed
Response: HTTP 200 in 2.2 s
Page size: 4.8 KB of markdown, 132 lines
Fields: Business Name, Address, Phone, Category
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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response 200 · 2.2 s · 4.8 KB

# PDFlib CookbookOutput an imported PDF page several times, with its Blocks filled with different personalized data.Show Input (businesscard_blocks.pdf)* Output an imported PDF page several times, with its blocks being filled with* different personalized data* Import a PDF page representing a business card template. To create business* cards for various persons, output the page several times with the contained* blocks being filled with personalized data related to the respective person.* Required data: PDF document containing blockspackage com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.blocks;import com.pdflib.PDFlibException;public class business_cardspublic static void main (String argv[])/* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. *//* By default annotations are also imported. In some cases this* requires the Noto fonts for creating annotation appearance streams.* We therefore set the searchpath to also point to the font directory.String fontpath = "../resource/font";String outfile = "business_cards.pdf";String title = "Business Cards";String infile = "businesscard_blocks.pdf";int nblocks = 8; // number of blocks to be filled/* Names of the blocks contained in the imported page */"name", "business_title", "business_address_line1","business_address_city", "business_telephone_voice","business_telephone_fax", "business_email", "business_homepage"int npersons = 3; // number of persons/* Data related to various persons used for personalization */{"Victor Kraxi", "Chief Paper Officer", "17, Aviation Road","7079-4302", "victor@kraxi.com", "www.kraxi.com"},{"Paula Kraxi", "Chief Paper Pilot", "17, Aviation Road","7079-4302", "paula@kraxi.com", "www.kraxi.com"},

POST /scrape · pdflib.com/pdflib-cookbook/blocks/business_cards.md · markdown · Showing 32 of 132 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on pdflib.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.

2.2 s · $0.000221

/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 pdflib.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.pdflib.com/pdflib-cookbook/blocks/business_cards/?cHash=80c3ef6fbf7e7ff5d3a228b37834f3bd", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://www.pdflib.com/pdflib-cookbook/blocks/business_cards/?cHash=80c3ef6fbf7e7ff5d3a228b37834f3bd", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])

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

const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://www.pdflib.com/pdflib-cookbook/blocks/business_cards/?cHash=80c3ef6fbf7e7ff5d3a228b37834f3bd", {
  return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What pdflib.com costs

Multiplied from the measured 4.8 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 4.8 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000221

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.006635

1,000 pages this size 4.7 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.22

10,000 pages this size 46.9 MB at the measured price ≈ $2.21

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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