GET wikisource.org HTTP 200140 ms41.7 KB$0.000296 captured Aug 7, 2026

wikisource.org, as data

One API turns any wikisource.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 140 ms
Page size: 41.7 KB of markdown, 487 lines
Fields: Business Name, Address, Phone, Category
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This wikisource.org page cost $0.000296 to fetch.

response 200 · 140 ms · 41.7 KB

# Wikisource:Main PageThis page contains changes which are not marked for translation.**Welcome to Wikisource**, the free library that anyone can improve.This is **Multilingual Wikisource**, a site for works in all languages, and for connecting different language-specific Wikisource projects. Works on this site include:* Works in multiple languages)* Works in languages that do not have their own language subdomain (for example, languages with a small corpus)* Works made up of non-linguistic content)* Works in languages that have language subdomains, but cannot be hosted on those sites due to their site-specific policies100,⁠000+• 10,⁠000+• 1,⁠000+• 100+• <100• All languagesatWikisource## 100,000 +## 10,000 +## 1,000 +## 100 +## < 100## All languages at Wikisource**Local Wikisource languages** • ***Wikisource — The Free Library***Table of Wikisources • Proofreading statistics

POST /scrape · wikisource.org/index.md · markdown · 487 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on wikisource.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.

140 ms · $0.000296

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

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What wikisource.org costs

Multiplied from the measured 41.7 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 41.7 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000296

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.008886

1,000 pages this size 40.7 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.30

10,000 pages this size 407.4 MB at the measured price ≈ $2.96

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 140 ms and cost $0.000296. The same call takes any URL on wikisource.org.

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