GET thisamericanlife.org HTTP 200187 ms3.2 KB$0.000188 captured Aug 7, 2026

thisamericanlife.org, as data

One API turns any thisamericanlife.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 187 ms
Page size: 3.2 KB of markdown, 43 lines
Fields: Business Name, Address, Phone, Category and 2 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This thisamericanlife.org page cost $0.000188 to fetch.

response 200 · 187 ms · 3.2 KB

## I Couldn't Help butNoticePeople dealing with new, glaring, massive changes happening right where they live.## Hi. We love you.To keep the show going, we need more Life Partners. Sign up and get ad-free listening, bonus episodes, and greatest hits – 250 of them! – hand-picked by Ira Glass.## Recently Aired](https://thisamericanlife.org/893/testosterone)### TestosteroneEveryone at *This American Life* tests their testosterone and compares results.](https://thisamericanlife.org/892/trapped-on-a-bus)### Trapped on a BusPeople on journeys they did not intend — or agree to.](https://thisamericanlife.org/891/the-test-case)### The Test CaseThe government sets out to prove that Antifa is real.### Sign up for our newsletter for weekly news and updates.### Visit our store for shirts, posters, tote bags, and more.

POST /scrape · thisamericanlife.org/index.md · markdown · Showing 16 of 43 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on thisamericanlife.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.

187 ms · $0.000188

/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 thisamericanlife.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://thisamericanlife.org/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://thisamericanlife.org/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])

import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";

const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://thisamericanlife.org/", {
  return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What thisamericanlife.org costs

Multiplied from the measured 3.2 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 3.2 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000188

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.005641

1,000 pages this size 3.1 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.19

10,000 pages this size 31.4 MB at the measured price ≈ $1.88

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 187 ms and cost $0.000188. The same call takes any URL on thisamericanlife.org.

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