GET www.gov.ie HTTP 200703 ms6.3 KB$0.000553 captured Aug 7, 2026

www.gov.ie, as data

One API turns any www.gov.ie 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 703 ms
Page size: 6.3 KB of markdown, 131 lines
Fields: Title, Department, Date, Description
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This www.gov.ie page cost $0.000553 to fetch.

response 200 · 703 ms · 6.3 KB

This website uses cookies to collect information about how you use this site. This information is used to make the website work as well as possible. More details are available in our cookie and privacy policies.Did you find what you were looking for?Find what you were looking for?Help us improve AI search results by giving your feedback.* Welcome to the Government Digital Wallet* Procuring for Our Future: National Public Procurement Strategy 2026 - 2030## Your credentials* Get a Personal Public Service (PPS) Number* How to get a Public Services Card (PSC)* Birth, death, marriage and other certificates## Welfare supports* State Pension (Contributory)## Working supports* Jobseeker's Pay-Related Benefit## Becoming a parent## Education* Free online courses with eCollege* Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance## Your property* Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant## Additional assistance## Finding public services* Find your local motor tax office* Find your local Intreo CentreWe’re taking climate action to transform Ireland’s society and economyDelivering Homes, Building Communities 2025-2030This plan aims to speed up the delivery of new homes and tackle homelessnessAbout Migration and IrelandRead about Ireland’s humanitarian response to immigrationThis form is only for feedback relating to the current page.Do not include personal or financial information.

POST /scrape · gov.ie/index.md · markdown · Showing 31 of 131 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on www.gov.ie

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.

703 ms · $0.000553

/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 www.gov.ie'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.gov.ie/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What www.gov.ie costs

Multiplied from the measured 6.3 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 6.3 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000553

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.02

1,000 pages this size 6.2 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.55

10,000 pages this size 61.5 MB at the measured price ≈ $5.53

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 703 ms and cost $0.000553. The same call takes any URL on www.gov.ie.

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