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GET theaustralian.com.au HTTP 200121 ms92.5 KB$0.00074 captured Aug 7, 2026

theaustralian.com.au, as data

One API turns any theaustralian.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 121 ms
Page size
92.5 KB of markdown, 567 lines
Fields
Headline, Summary, Author, Published Date and 1 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This theaustralian.com.au page cost $0.00074 to fetch.

response 200 · 121 ms · 92.5 KB
David RogersandValerina ChangarathilSoftware revolutionTechnology49 minutes ago### Atlassian CEO flags buy-in as shares soar on turnaround quarterAtlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes pledges to buy $US250m of the software giant’s shares, dismisses concerns the AI boom will make his software obsolete.The Inner SanctumLeadership### Intrepid ambition: The building of a billion-dollar travel companyData centre boomTechnology29 minutes ago### Aussie AI firm cops $612m loss from its own successMargin CallMargin Call### Nats enlist Howard for Coalition’s defence against One NationCourtBusiness### Bankrupt Adgemis tries to have pubs autopsy held in secretLawyers for former Sydney pubs boss Jon Adgemis claimed he was the victim of an abuse of process in court on Thursday, seeking for his examination to be closed or scrapped.EXCLUSIVENation### Labor’s first-home ‘loophole’ for foreign property ownersPeople who own property overseas are still eligible for the scheme, as new figures show one in six people who have accessed it are permanent residents, not citizens.Margin CallMargin Call### New Liberal director builds bridges over a brewski or twoThe Opposition Leader’s office and Liberal Party HQ certainly haven’t always seen eye to eye, but they were spotted going pint for pint on Wednesday night.Max AitchisonandWill Glasgow## Wealthoverpriced or must-have?Investing### The overlooked reason CBA keeps beating the scepticsCommonwealth Bank’s annual results loom as a fresh test of its extraordinary valuation.CommentaryWealth### Labor’s tax overhaul: a dog’s breakfast of fixesAfter ramming through the biggest wealth tax changes in a generation, the Albanese government is still scrambling to fix flaws it was warned would emerge | WATCH’disadvantaged’Property Investing### Labor’s CGT rules set to punish property investors for success
POST /scrape · theaustralian.com.au/index.md · markdown · Showing 19 of 567 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on theaustralian.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.

121 ms · $0.00074
/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 theaustralian.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://theaustralian.com.au/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What theaustralian.com.au costs

Multiplied from the measured 92.5 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 92.5 KB over HTTP, measured $0.00074
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.02
1,000 pages this size 90.4 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.74
10,000 pages this size 903.5 MB at the measured price ≈ $7.40

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 theaustralian.com.au.

The capture above took 121 ms and cost $0.00074. The same call takes any URL on theaustralian.com.au.

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