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GET sciencealert.com HTTP 200148 ms10.8 KB$0.000313 captured Aug 7, 2026

sciencealert.com, as data

One API turns any sciencealert.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 148 ms
Page size
10.8 KB of markdown, 96 lines
Fields
Title, Authors, Abstract, Journal and 2 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This sciencealert.com page cost $0.000313 to fetch.

response 200 · 148 ms · 10.8 KB
As Ice Melts, Antarctica Is Leaking Mercury Into The OceanMassive Study of 10 Million Siblings Links Birth Order To Risk of ADHD, Autism](https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-are-starting-to-understand-the-largest-biomechanical-event-on-earth-whales-hunting-for-food-on-a-single-breath)Blue Whales Shouldn't Be Able to Hunt The Way They Do. Scientists Have Finally Discovered How They Pull It Off](https://www.sciencealert.com/ghosts-of-your-memories-may-linger-in-your-brain-even-when-you-think-theyre-forgotten)Ghosts of 'Forgotten' Memories May Linger in The Brain, Study Suggests – And Could Even Be Restored](https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-mapped-the-invisible-rivers-flowing-through-the-sky-above-south-america)An Entire Continent Runs on Rivers You Can't See. Scientists Just Mapped Them](https://www.sciencealert.com/gut-fungi-from-a-common-pest-can-chew-holes-in-styrofoam)Gut Fungi From a Common Pest Can Chew Holes in Styrofoam](https://www.sciencealert.com/historys-barbarians-were-far-more-sophisticated-than-we-give-them-credit-for)'Barbarians' Have Been Misunderstood For Centuries, Researchers Explain](https://www.sciencealert.com/strange-dna-structures-found-in-the-human-genome-go-beyond-the-double-helix)Your DNA Isn't Just a Double Helix. Scientists Just Found What Else It's Hiding](https://www.sciencealert.com/your-gums-may-be-quietly-hinting-at-a-future-health-risk)Bleeding Gums Might Be an Early Sign of Something Much Bigger](https://www.sciencealert.com/exceeded-our-expectations-one-antioxidant-could-be-key-to-keeping-aging-muscles-strong)'Exceeded Our Expectations': One Antioxidant Could Be Key to Keeping Aging Muscles Strong](https://www.sciencealert.com/a-key-meat-protein-has-been-grown-in-lettuce-for-the-first-time)A Key Meat Protein Has Been Grown in Lettuce For The First Time
POST /scrape · sciencealert.com/index.md · markdown · Showing 20 of 96 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on sciencealert.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.

148 ms · $0.000313
/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 sciencealert.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://sciencealert.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What sciencealert.com costs

Multiplied from the measured 10.8 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 10.8 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000313
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.009383
1,000 pages this size 10.5 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.31
10,000 pages this size 105.4 MB at the measured price ≈ $3.13

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 sciencealert.com.

The capture above took 148 ms and cost $0.000313. The same call takes any URL on sciencealert.com.

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