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GET rba.gov.au HTTP 200202 ms13.8 KB$0.000106 captured Aug 7, 2026

rba.gov.au, as data

One API turns any rba.gov.au 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 202 ms
Page size
13.8 KB of markdown, 320 lines
Fields
Title, Department, Date, Description and 1 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This rba.gov.au page cost $0.000106 to fetch.

response 200 · 202 ms · 13.8 KB
## The Bank's mission and key statisticsBut there are many other things that we are responsible for as well.The Reserve Bank’s also responsible for the stability of the financial system. We typically think ofa stable financial system as one that is safe and helps money flow within the economy, even when thereare disruptive events. We contribute to financial stability in a number of ways. One important way is bysetting monetary policy that helps keep inflation low and stable and people fully employed. We alsocollaborate with other financial regulators – Australian Prudential Regulation Authority,Australian Securities and Investment Commission and the Australian Treasury – through the Councilof Financial Regulators to identify risks in the financial system and to develop plans to address them ifthey arise. In extreme situations, we can also provide lending to financial institutions that are soundbut experiencing difficulties with liquidity.Now we also make and distribute Australia’s banknotes. We have some of the highest quality and mostsecure banknotes in the world and they use technology that we in Australia invented, the Bank invented it with the CSIRO in the 1980s –polymer, or if you like, plastic banknotes. We have a purpose-built banknote printing facility and vaultin the outer suburbs of Melbourne. It might surprise many people that despite the use of electronicpayments increasing, there is still a lot of demand for banknotes, particularly as a store of value.We also operate the payment system that is at the centre of the movement of money in Australia. When moneygoes from one bank to another, say when you pay a bill to somebody who banks with a different bank, themoney comes through the Reserve Bank. We are also constantly looking at innovations to provideAustralians with the most efficient and secure ways to pay. For example, we worked with the banks to
POST /scrape · rba.gov.au/index.md · markdown · Showing 20 of 320 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on rba.gov.au

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.

202 ms · $0.000106
/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 rba.gov.au'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://rba.gov.au/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What rba.gov.au costs

Multiplied from the measured 13.8 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 13.8 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000106
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.003176
1,000 pages this size 13.5 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.11
10,000 pages this size 135.0 MB at the measured price ≈ $1.06

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 202 ms and cost $0.000106. The same call takes any URL on rba.gov.au.

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