GET usgs.gov HTTP 2001.3 s24.1 KB$0.000261 captured Aug 10, 2026

usgs.gov, as data

One API turns any usgs.gov 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.

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Render mode: Plain HTTP, no browser needed
Response: HTTP 200 in 1.3 s
Page size: 24.1 KB of markdown, 445 lines
Fields: Title, Department, Date, Description and 2 more
Captured: Aug 10, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This usgs.gov page cost $0.000261 to fetch.

response 200 · 1.3 s · 24.1 KB

#### 6.232 km WSW of Sarangani, Philippines#### 4.3southeast of the Loyalty IslandsEarthquake Hazards Program# Earthquake Hazards Program**The USGS monitors and reports on earthquakes, assesses earthquake impacts and hazards, and conducts targeted research on the causes and effects of earthquakes. We undertake these activities as part of the largerNational Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program(NEHRP), a four-agency partnership established by Congress.**Latest earthquakes map and list (past 24 hours, M2.5+) from the ANSS (Advanced National Seismic System).Find an earthquake or a list of earthquakes by time window, magnitude, area, and more, and choose the output format - map and list, CVS, and others.Is this what you're looking for?* Realtime Earthquake Products* Earthquake Topics - learn more* Science for Everyone - plain language research summaries## NewsThe Loneliest Seismometers on Earth#### The Loneliest Seismometers on EarthUpdates for ShakeAlert False Alert for M5.9 Earthquake near Carson City, NV (Dec. 2025)#### Updates for ShakeAlert False Alert for M5.9 Earthquake near Carson City, NV (Dec. 2025)USGS releases aftershock forecast for M8.8 Russian Kamchatka Peninsula Earthquake#### USGS releases aftershock forecast for M8.8 Russian Kamchatka Peninsula Earthquake## PublicationsTesting characteristic magnitude distributions in modern PSHA models Testing characteristic magnitude distributions in modern PSHA modelsThe characteristic magnitude distribution hypothesis predicts a higher rate of large earthquakes than a Gutenberg–Richter extrapolation of the small‐earthquake rate would imply. Characteristic magnitude distributions have been commonly applied to faults in probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA), and in modern models they can emerge from the way short‐term seismicity constraints are...Morgan T. Page, Kevin Ross Milner, Edward H. Field

POST /scrape · usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards.md · markdown · Showing 24 of 445 lines · captured Aug 10, 2026

What Spider does on usgs.gov

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.

1.3 s · $0.000261

/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 usgs.gov'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://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])

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

const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards", {
  return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What usgs.gov costs

Multiplied from the measured 24.1 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 24.1 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000261

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.007827

1,000 pages this size 23.6 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.26

10,000 pages this size 235.5 MB at the measured price ≈ $2.61

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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