GET r-project.org HTTP 200377 ms1.4 KB$0.000024 captured Aug 7, 2026

r-project.org, as data

One API turns any r-project.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.

target profile from the capture

Render mode: Plain HTTP, no browser needed
Response: HTTP 200 in 377 ms
Page size: 1.4 KB of markdown, 32 lines
Fields: Business Name, Address, Phone, Category and 2 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This r-project.org page cost $0.000024 to fetch.

response 200 · 377 ms · 1.4 KB

# The R Project for Statistical Computing## Getting StartedR is a free software environment for statistical computing andgraphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms,Windows and MacOS. To **download R**,please choose your preferred CRAN mirror.If you have questions about R like how to download and install thesoftware, or what the license terms are, please read our [answers to frequently askedquestions](https://cran.R-project.org/faqs.html) before you send an email.## News4.6.1 (Happy Hop)**](https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4) has been released on 2026-06-24.4.5.3 (Reassured Reassurer)**](https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4) (wrap-up release) was released2026**](https://user2026.r-project.org) conference will take place in Warsaw, Poland, July* You can support the R Foundation with a renewable subscription as amember](https://www.r-project.org/foundation/donations.html).## News via Mastodon`<div class="loading-spinner"></div>`## Social Media

POST /scrape · r-project.org/index.md · markdown · 32 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on r-project.org

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.

377 ms · $0.000024

/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 r-project.org'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://r-project.org/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://r-project.org/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])

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

const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://r-project.org/", {
  return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What r-project.org costs

Multiplied from the measured 1.4 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 1.4 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000024

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.000728

1,000 pages this size 1.4 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.02

10,000 pages this size 13.8 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.24

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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The capture above took 377 ms and cost $0.000024. The same call takes any URL on r-project.org.

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