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GET politico.com HTTP 200197 ms57.3 KB$0.000554 captured Aug 7, 2026

politico.com, as data

One API turns any politico.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 197 ms
Page size
57.3 KB of markdown, 638 lines
Fields
Headline, Author, Published date, Category and 4 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This politico.com page cost $0.000554 to fetch.

response 200 · 197 ms · 57.3 KB
Can the GOP ‘defy history’ in the midterms? (with Speaker Mike Johnson)The stories behind the power.## **** **NEWSLETTERS**The unofficial guide to official Washington, every morning and weekday afternoons.* All fields must be completed to subscribe.### Trump’s Efforts to Sway Foreign Elections Are Missing Something The president is being all-too-brazen. By Nahal Toosi### Pete Buttigieg’s Case Against ‘Return to Normal’ He’s trying to convince voters that neither he nor his party can afford to look backward. By Jonathan Martin### This Senator Has a Very Midwestern Plan to Save the Democrats The Michigan senator says her party has a lot to learn about Midwestern nice. By Adam Wren### Anger Over Data Centers Is Fueling a New Political Movement Justin Pearson, a Tennessee lawmaker, has become one of the loudest voices amid a growing national backlash against the pollution and politics of America’s AI buildout. By Ariel Wittenberg### GOP Staffers Say the Party Has a Groyper Problem Party veterans are concerned that the pipeline of young Republican talent is veering off course — and into terminally online extremism. By Kathy Gilsinan### ‘It Wasn’t Part of Trump’s Plans’: Venezuela’s Feeble Earthquake Response Undermining US Credibility Bodies remain in the rubble four weeks later as residents dig by hand for relatives. By Eva Hartog### Brendan Carr Speaks Out on Jimmy Kimmel, the Media and Trump In a new interview, Trump’s FCC chair defends his controversial strategy. By Dasha Burns### Why Trump Is Afraid of International Law The administration worries “woke” institutions will go after its officials for alleged human rights abuses. By Nahal Toosi### Rahm Emanuel on Why Democrats Keep Losing The former Chicago mayor makes his case for his party’s future. By Jonathan Martin
POST /scrape · politico.com/index.md · markdown · Showing 14 of 638 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on politico.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.

197 ms · $0.000554
/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 politico.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://politico.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What politico.com costs

Multiplied from the measured 57.3 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 57.3 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000554
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.02
1,000 pages this size 56.0 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.55
10,000 pages this size 559.5 MB at the measured price ≈ $5.54

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 politico.com.

The capture above took 197 ms and cost $0.000554. The same call takes any URL on politico.com.

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