# Shotlane, free, GET /v1/markdown: Web scraping API

> Screenshots, clean Markdown, PDFs and scrolling videos of any web page, rendered in current Chrome. One HTTP request or an MCP server, with nothing to install or keep running.

Shotlane's Free plan for the web scraping API costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. Shotlane's docs list 1 of the 7 fields on our checklist: Markdown.
We haven't run Shotlane through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 2,648 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.996 per 1,000 pages or less. [See the best free web scraping API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
[LinkPreview's $8 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkpreview/8-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. LinkPreview's web scraping API costs nothing beyond the plan price. [Spider Cloud's Pay as you go plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-scrape-scrape/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 pages a month: $1.00.
[WebScraping.AI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/29-monthly-personal-get-html-get-page-html-datacenter-proxy-no-js-rendering/llms.txt), [Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt) and [ScraperAPI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/299-monthly-business-get-sync-api/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotlane/free-get-v1-markdown
- [Web scraping API: 140+ scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://shotlane.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://shotlane.dev/v1/markdown`
- API key: with the plan, on https://shotlane.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://shotlane.dev/docs/markdown?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#markdown
- Sold by: Shotlane (https://shotlane.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Markdown: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Extract content and metadata · Scrape values by selector · Create a bulk job · Map a site's URLs · Start a crawl · Screenshot a URL or HTML · Render a URL or HTML to PDF · One page on several devices · Does the page look right? · A scrolling video of the page · Check a monitor now

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Screenshots, clean Markdown, PDFs and scrolling videos of any web page, rendered in current Chrome. One HTTP request or an MCP server, with nothing to install or keep running.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may not use the Service to: violate any law or third-party rights, capture content you have no right to access, attack, scan or overload third-party systems, attempt to reach private networks, generate material that is illegal, infringing or abusive, or resell raw API access. [...] You are responsible for the URLs, HTML and Markdown you submit and for how you use the output. We don't claim ownership of your content.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits a month
- Enough for: 100 calls a month
- Expires: unused allowance does not carry over

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: html, main_content, selector, exclude_selectors, include_links, include_images, max_chars, cache_ttl, async
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/markdown

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone aged 16 or over with a confirmed email address that isn't a disposable one (under 18 with a parent's or guardian's consent)

## The only field the plan's answer can hold

page markdown

## Shotlane's plans (8)

- [Shotlane, free, GET /v1/markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotlane/free-get-v1-markdown/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Shotlane, free, Keyless](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotlane/free-keyless/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Shotlane, $12 pack, 2,000 credits, GET /v1/markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotlane/12-pack-2000-credits-get-v1-markdown/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Shotlane, $39 pack, 10,000 credits, GET /v1/markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotlane/39-pack-10000-credits-get-v1-markdown/llms.txt): $3.90 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Shotlane, $50 pack, 14,000 credits, GET /v1/markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotlane/50-pack-14000-credits-get-v1-markdown/llms.txt): $3.571 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Shotlane, $129 pack, 50,000 credits, GET /v1/markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotlane/129-pack-50000-credits-get-v1-markdown/llms.txt): $2.58 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Shotlane, $200 pack, 100,000 credits, GET /v1/markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotlane/200-pack-100000-credits-get-v1-markdown/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Shotlane, $500 pack, 250,000 credits, GET /v1/markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotlane/500-pack-250000-credits-get-v1-markdown/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live

## Shotlane's calls (5)

- `POST /v1/bulk`: [Shotlane, free, POST /v1/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotlane/free-post-v1-bulk/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/extract`: [Shotlane, free, GET /v1/extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotlane/free-get-v1-extract/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/markdown`: [Shotlane, free, GET /v1/markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotlane/free-get-v1-markdown/llms.txt)
- `GET /md/{url}`: [Shotlane, free, Keyless](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotlane/free-keyless/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/scrape`: [Shotlane, free, POST /v1/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotlane/free-post-v1-scrape/llms.txt)

## Shotlane's APIs (1)

- [Shotlane: web scraping API pricing, 8 plans, GET /v1/markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotlane/free-get-v1-markdown/llms.txt)

## Shotlane: web scraping API alternatives

- [WebScraping.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, GET /text, Get Page Text, residential proxy, no JS rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/top-up-from-20-pay-as-you-go-get-text-get-page-text-residential-proxy-no-js-rendering/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [APIFreaks, $500 monthly, Monthly 10,000,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper API, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/500-monthly-monthly-10000000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [AlterLab, top-up from $10, Deposit $10, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape a web page, Protected](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/alterlab/top-up-from-10-deposit-10-post-api-v1-scrape-scrape-a-web-page-protected/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [FetchFox, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /api/visit](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fetchfox/top-up/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

- https://shotlane.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://shotlane.dev/docs/authentication?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://shotlane.dev/docs/bulk?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://shotlane.dev/docs/errors?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://shotlane.dev/docs/markdown?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://shotlane.dev/docs/scrape?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://shotlane.dev/docs/scrape?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#scrape
- https://shotlane.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://shotlane.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://shotlane.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing