Spider Transform API

Convert raw HTML or PDF into clean output (markdown, JSON, text).

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OpenAPI Specification

spider-cloud-transform-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Spider Cloud Crawling Transform API
  version: v1
  description: 'Spider Cloud is a Rust-based, AI-friendly web scraping and crawling platform.

    The REST API accepts and returns JSON (also XML, CSV, JSONL via the content-type header)

    and authenticates with a Bearer API key. Every account is allowed up to 10,000 core

    API requests per minute.

    '
  contact:
    name: Spider Cloud Support
    url: https://spider.cloud
    email: support@spider.cloud
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://spider.cloud
servers:
- url: https://api.spider.cloud
  description: Spider Cloud production API
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Transform
  description: Convert raw HTML or PDF into clean output (markdown, JSON, text).
paths:
  /transform:
    post:
      tags:
      - Transform
      summary: Transform HTML or PDF
      operationId: transform
      description: Convert raw HTML or PDF input into clean markdown, JSON, plain text, or other supported output formats.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/TransformRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Transformed output.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/TransformResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
        code:
          type: string
        message:
          type: string
    TransformResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        content:
          type: string
        metadata:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
    TransformRequest:
      type: object
      properties:
        html:
          type: string
        pdf_base64:
          type: string
        return_format:
          type: string
          enum:
          - markdown
          - text
          - json
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Missing or invalid API key.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: API Key