GET strath.ac.uk HTTP 2003.3 s25.9 KB$0.000026 captured Aug 7, 2026
strath.ac.uk, as data
One API turns any strath.ac.uk 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.
- Render mode
- Plain HTTP, no browser needed
- Response
- HTTP 200 in 3.3 s
- Page size
- 25.9 KB of markdown, 123 lines
- Fields
- Title, Content, Date, Source and 1 more
- Captured
- Aug 7, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This strath.ac.uk page cost $0.000026 to fetch.
When using a database service, it is important to know what material you are searching across.While it might be obvious that you won’t find a journal article if searching the *UK Parliamentary Papers* database, other considerations are less obvious. For example, you may need to check:* which sources are covered in a database,* which countries are covered.It is also important to know whether you are searching across full-text documents or abstracts (that is, summaries) as this can not only impact on what documents you retrieve, but also how you can search most effectively.You can usually find this information by following links within databases to ‘coverage’, ‘content’, ‘information’, ‘about’ , ‘help’ etc.'Search syntax' - using operators and connectors (Boolean searching)You can use these connectors to express the relationship between search terms in order to increase or reduce the number of results.Many are common between different databases, but some vary so always check the connectors you should be using.Be systematic when constructing searches, as you add terms and connectors take note of the effect they are having on your results.Below, you can see some of the main connector functions used across databases.Common operators/connectorsRestricts results to documents containing **both** termsExpands results to documents containing **either** termfootball**NOT **"american football"Restricts results to documents containing the first term **but not** the secondRestricts in similar way to AND but are more specific (e.g. searching for terms within a given number of words)**“**association football**”**Retrieves only documents which contain the terms appearing as an **exact phrase**What Spider does on strath.ac.uk
Same key, five endpoints. The numbers under a cell were measured on this page.
Page to markdown
Clean text for RAG and LLM context, boilerplate removed. The lane that runs without a key.
3.3 s · $0.000026Page to JSON
Spider reads the page and names the fields. Pass your own schema when you need exact keys.
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.
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://guides.lib.strath.ac.uk/literature-searching/undertaking-searches", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://guides.lib.strath.ac.uk/literature-searching/undertaking-searches", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://guides.lib.strath.ac.uk/literature-searching/undertaking-searches", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What strath.ac.uk costs
Multiplied from the measured 25.9 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.
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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