GET www.gov.za HTTP 200472 ms7.0 KB$0.000103 captured Aug 7, 2026

www.gov.za, as data

One API turns any www.gov.za 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 472 ms
Page size: 7.0 KB of markdown, 104 lines
Fields: Title, Department, Date, Description and 1 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This www.gov.za page cost $0.000103 to fetch.

response 200 · 472 ms · 7.0 KB

## Social grants## Driving## Education## Citizens and Travel## World of work## Family## Documents## About Country## Government## In FocusThe Southern African Development Community (SADC) will convene its 46th Ordinary Summit of…## Latest News## Speeches and StatementsGovernment calls on South Africans to unite behind Banyana BanyanaGovernment urges public to take precautions on the expected cold frontNATJOINTS: Security and anti -illegal immigration## EventsPresident Cyril Ramaphosa leads 2026 National Women's Day Commemoration, 9 AugDeputy Minister Kenny Morolong leads Milestones of Freedom Campaign in Western Cape, 10 to 11 AugNATJOINTS briefs media on immigration enforcement operations, 7 AugOperation Vulindlela Phase II Q1 Progress ReportAnimal Diseases Act: Control measures for outbreak of foot and mouth diseasesPYEI Quarterly Progress Report: Q4: Jan – Mar 2026## Documents for public commentNational Health Act: Regulations relating to Renal DialysisLabour Relations Act: Notice of intention to cancel the registration of an organisation: Public Servants Association of…## Multimedia## Video80th Session of the UN General Assembly## Photo GalleryPresident Cyril Ramaphosa receives Letters of Credence from Heads of Mission Designate

POST /scrape · gov.za/index.md · markdown · 104 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on www.gov.za

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.

472 ms · $0.000103

/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.za'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.za/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://www.gov.za/", 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.za/", {
  return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What www.gov.za costs

Multiplied from the measured 7.0 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 7.0 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000103

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.003095

1,000 pages this size 6.9 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.10

10,000 pages this size 68.8 MB at the measured price ≈ $1.03

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 472 ms and cost $0.000103. The same call takes any URL on www.gov.za.

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