GET sur.ly HTTP 200198 ms9.7 KB$0.000096 captured Aug 7, 2026
sur.ly, as data
One API turns any sur.ly 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 198 ms
- Page size
- 9.7 KB of markdown, 125 lines
- Fields
- Title, Content, Date, Source
- Captured
- Aug 7, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This sur.ly page cost $0.000096 to fetch.
# Sur.ly alters the outbound links on your site so that visitors can get to external target pages without leaving your domain.## Surely the simplest tool to:Cope with fake users signing up for your site to get backlinksSur.ly can nullify all efforts of spammers trying to create fake profiles on a public site to get a free link and thus steal some link juice from it.Minimize the risk of an algorithmic Google penaltySur.ly turns any risky or toxic outbound links within user-generated content into safe and SEO-friendly internal links.Keep users within your domain longer to reduce the bounce rateSur.ly allows users to view the external pages while staying within your domain as long as possible and thus helps you keep the bounce rate in check.Recapture users leaving via outbound linksSur.ly helps you to attract users back to your site with the headlines and pics from your articles listed on a clickable panel at the top of every external page.Protect users after they follow the outbound linksSur.ly provides users with a toolbar showing an up-to-date safety status of every website they visit via your links and warns about detected threats.Keep your traffic data private and secureConfidentiality is the key to success. With Sur.ly you can keep all the external traffic stats to yourself by relying upon your subdomain as a safety buffer.Increase your brand awarenessYou can customize Sur.ly toolbar to fit your website’s visual design and branding.Integrate with the web analytics serviceIntegrate Sur.ly with Google Analytics to track user behaviour after they leave your site.Sur.ly plugin is free and available for any content management system of your choice.## Custom colors and brandingBring your brand out with Sur.ly toolbar! Simply choose toolbar colors and suitable fonts, as Sur.ly automatically adds your website’s name, favicon, latest headlines, pics and article snippets.What Spider does on sur.ly
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.
198 ms · $0.000096Page 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://sur.ly/", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://sur.ly/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://sur.ly/", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What sur.ly costs
Multiplied from the measured 9.7 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.
Point this at the rest of sur.ly.
The capture above took 198 ms and cost $0.000096. The same call takes any URL on sur.ly.