GET wikimedia.org HTTP 200146 ms3.2 KB$0.000092 captured Aug 7, 2026

wikimedia.org, as data

One API turns any wikimedia.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 146 ms
Page size: 3.2 KB of markdown, 85 lines
Fields: Headline, Summary, Author, Published Date and 2 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This wikimedia.org page cost $0.000092 to fetch.

response 200 · 146 ms · 3.2 KB

Welcome! The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely. Join us in making all knowledge available to everyone, everywhere.Our projects are the core of the Wikimedia movement. All major projects are operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, and the content is collaboratively developed by over 260,000 users worldwide using the MediaWiki software.Wikipedia The Free EncyclopediaWiktionary Free dictionaryWikiquote Free quote compendiumCommons Free media collectionWikisource Free content libraryWikiversity Free learning resourcesWikispecies Free content libraryWikidata Free knowledge baseWikifunctions Free function libraryMediaWiki Free & open wiki softwareWikivoyage Free travel guideMeta-Wiki Community coordination & documentationThe Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that hosts all Wikimedia projects and supports communities all over the world who create and curate freely accessible content.Your donation protects the human right to free and open knowledge for everyone.Questions about the Wikimedia Foundation or Wikimedia projects? Get in touch.This page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

POST /scrape · wikimedia.org/index.md · markdown · 85 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on wikimedia.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.

146 ms · $0.000092

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

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What wikimedia.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 $0.000092

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.00277

1,000 pages this size 3.2 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.09

10,000 pages this size 31.7 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.92

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 146 ms and cost $0.000092. The same call takes any URL on wikimedia.org.

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