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GET theage.com.au HTTP 200188 ms71.9 KB$0.001872 captured Aug 7, 2026

theage.com.au, as data

One API turns any theage.com.au 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 188 ms
Page size
71.9 KB of markdown, 613 lines
Fields
Title, Content, Date, Source and 2 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This theage.com.au page cost $0.001872 to fetch.

response 200 · 188 ms · 71.9 KB
### ‘It was quite traumatic’: Hugo Weaving on overcoming a childhood diagnosis – and the secrets to a happy familyHe was once “a very shy little boy” – but the Australian actor has conquered more than one challenge to carve out an extraordinary career in the spotlight.### ‘My opinion didn’t count’: Tina Arena discusses ill-fated marriage to Ralph Carr in new documentaryThe top-selling singer opens up about her biggest regret, racist bullying and why she’s now doing things on her own terms.### Jason speaks Japanese, runs marathons and a business – but he couldn’t swim until Gary came along### I thought Parkinson’s had taken my mum away. Then we began playing poker##### Tony Wright’s Column### Long before her media bans, Pauline held a sleepover for journalists## Victoria##### Victorian Parliament### ‘Marshall should go’: Top corruption buster says fire union boss unfit to leadPeter Marshall defended his record and said his only duty was to his members. But top anti-corruption barrister Geoffrey Watson isn’t having a bar of it.##### Victoria Police conduct### Police told Brodie’s mum he suffered an ‘intoxicated fall’. Then she uncovered what really happenedBrodie Holt suffered brain damage after an arrest outside a Traralgon hotel where his head was allegedly slammed into a brick wall, amid broader concerns about alleged police misconduct in Gippsland.##### Public transport### The train lines that are about to be boosted with hundreds more servicesIn the first timetable shake-up since the Metro Tunnel was unveiled, hundreds of services have been added to Melbourne’s network, including a service connecting bayside with the western suburbs.##### Justice### Experts reveal flaw in using psychological risk to keep court cases secret
POST /scrape · theage.com.au/index.md · markdown · Showing 20 of 613 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on theage.com.au

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.

188 ms · $0.001872
/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 theage.com.au'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://theage.com.au/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What theage.com.au costs

Multiplied from the measured 71.9 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 71.9 KB over HTTP, measured $0.001872
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.06
1,000 pages this size 70.2 MB at the measured price ≈ $1.87
10,000 pages this size 702.3 MB at the measured price ≈ $18.72

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 188 ms and cost $0.001872. The same call takes any URL on theage.com.au.

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