GET sacred-texts.com HTTP 200273 ms3.5 KB$0.00005 captured Aug 7, 2026

sacred-texts.com, as data

One API turns any sacred-texts.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 273 ms
Page size: 3.5 KB of markdown, 83 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 sacred-texts.com page cost $0.00005 to fetch.

response 200 · 273 ms · 3.5 KB

Dear Readers of ISTA, our newer site is temporarily down, thanks for browsing and for your support in the meantime! —ISTA StaffWith the **ISTA FLASH-DRIVE 9.0** you hold the world's wisdom in the palm of your hand - the most comprehensive collection of books on religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric ever assembled...an incredible value with over 1700 books. Buy it here.W**elcome to the largest freely available archive** of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. The site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship, and has the largest readership of any similar site on the web.We need you to keep this site online. Help *TODAY* to ensure that these books are preserved by purchasing the new ISTA FLASH DRIVE 9.0 **here**...Search Sacred-texts](search.htm)|The Book of Shadows](bos/index.htm)|[Native American](nam/index.htm)|[#### Thank you!The Teachings of Zoroaster](zor/toz/index.htm)The Splendour of God](bhi/sog/index.htm)The Kebra Nagast](afr/kn/index.htm)The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq](isl/taa/index.htm)**This is a quiet place in cyberspacedevoted to religious tolerance and scholarship**Non-public domain contents of this site*Open Source for the Human Soul*

POST /scrape · sacred-texts.com/index.md · markdown · 83 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on sacred-texts.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.

273 ms · $0.00005

/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 sacred-texts.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://sacred-texts.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What sacred-texts.com costs

Multiplied from the measured 3.5 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 3.5 KB over HTTP, measured $0.00005

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.001495

1,000 pages this size 3.4 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.05

10,000 pages this size 33.8 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.50

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 273 ms and cost $0.00005. The same call takes any URL on sacred-texts.com.

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