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GET sourceware.org HTTP 200201 ms7.6 KB$0.000038 captured Aug 7, 2026

sourceware.org, as data

One API turns any sourceware.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 201 ms
Page size
7.6 KB of markdown, 156 lines
Fields
Business Name, Address, Phone, Category and 1 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This sourceware.org page cost $0.000038 to fetch.

response 200 · 201 ms · 7.6 KB
sourceware.org: Free software! Get your fresh hot free software!**I can't access the ftp site. Mirrors?**There are several sites which mirror thecan see the full list on the [free software mirrorsDuring the dot-com boom years I was called *sources.redhat.com*Can I host my free software project there?**Currently, we are pleased to be able to provide a home for variouscore toolchain and development tool offerings and certainBinutils, and others. However, we currently only have the capacity tohost a limited number of projects.can be hosted here, we do have to be selective in what we offer.With luck, this will change soon, as we are contemplating increasing the capacityof both the sourceware.org system and the internet connection that it uses tocommunicate with the outside world.**I need an account on sourceware for git/svn/cvs write access to project *XYZ*?**Ok, you need write access for a project hosted on Sourceware you say? Well, first you'll need to have your request approved by the project maintainer(s). Once they give their ok, you can use our handy dandy little form and we'll process your request. This will provide you with an account on sourceware.org. If, in the future, you want tocontribute to the repository of another project (remember that sourceware.org, cygwin.com and gcc.gnu.org share projects), have a responsible party send email to the admin-requests mailing list atthis site requesting that you be added to the project. *Do not fill this form out again.***Do you have a privacy statement for this site?**We're not recording anything about you, short of the normal web logswhich show what pages are being downloaded by what host. We'd neveruse any of the mailing list subscription information for anythingother than the normal distribution of e-mail to that list.Oh, from time to time we do generate some aggregate reports but thosedon't identify you individually, so stop worrying.
POST /scrape · sourceware.org/index.md · markdown · Showing 25 of 156 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on sourceware.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.

201 ms · $0.000038
/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 sourceware.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://sourceware.org/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What sourceware.org costs

Multiplied from the measured 7.6 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 7.6 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000038
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.001128
1,000 pages this size 7.5 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.04
10,000 pages this size 74.7 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.38

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 sourceware.org.

The capture above took 201 ms and cost $0.000038. The same call takes any URL on sourceware.org.

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