diff --git a/components/spider/actions/scrape-new-page/scrape-new-page.mjs b/components/spider/actions/scrape-new-page/scrape-new-page.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8aa9325d9c445
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/spider/actions/scrape-new-page/scrape-new-page.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+import spider from "../../spider.app.mjs";
+
+export default {
+  key: "spider-scrape-new-page",
+  name: "Scrape New Page",
+  description: "Initiates a new page scrape (crawl). [See the documentation](https://spider.cloud/docs/api#crawl-website)",
+  version: "0.0.1",
+  type: "action",
+  props: {
+    spider,
+    infoBox: {
+      type: "alert",
+      alertType: "info",
+      content: "See [the Spider documentation](https://spider.cloud/docs/api#crawl-website) for information on limits and best practices.",
+    },
+    url: {
+      type: "string",
+      label: "URL",
+      description: "The URI resource to crawl, e.g. `https://spider.cloud`. This can be a comma split list for multiple urls.",
+    },
+    limit: {
+      type: "integer",
+      label: "Limit",
+      description: "The maximum amount of pages allowed to crawl per website. Default is 0, which crawls all pages.",
+      optional: true,
+    },
+    storeData: {
+      type: "boolean",
+      label: "Store Data",
+      description: "Decide whether to store data. Default is `false`.",
+      optional: true,
+    },
+  },
+  async run({ $ }) {
+    const content = await this.spider.initiateCrawl({
+      $,
+      data: {
+        url: this.url,
+        limit: this.limit,
+        store_data: this.storeData,
+      },
+    });
+    $.export("$summary", `Successfully scraped URL ${this.url}`);
+    return content;
+  },
+};
diff --git a/components/spider/package.json b/components/spider/package.json
index cc316e1ccfb32..6f467bb3f29fe 100644
--- a/components/spider/package.json
+++ b/components/spider/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@pipedream/spider",
-  "version": "0.0.1",
+  "version": "0.1.0",
   "description": "Pipedream Spider Components",
   "main": "spider.app.mjs",
   "keywords": [
@@ -11,5 +11,8 @@
   "author": "Pipedream <support@pipedream.com> (https://pipedream.com/)",
   "publishConfig": {
     "access": "public"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "@pipedream/platform": "^3.0.3"
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/components/spider/spider.app.mjs b/components/spider/spider.app.mjs
index 98004efd50fdd..115ffb6352914 100644
--- a/components/spider/spider.app.mjs
+++ b/components/spider/spider.app.mjs
@@ -1,11 +1,32 @@
+import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform";
+
 export default {
   type: "app",
   app: "spider",
   propDefinitions: {},
   methods: {
-    // this.$auth contains connected account data
-    authKeys() {
-      console.log(Object.keys(this.$auth));
+    _baseUrl() {
+      return "https://api.spider.cloud";
+    },
+    async _makeRequest({
+      $ = this, path = "/", headers, ...otherOpts
+    } = {}) {
+      return axios($, {
+        ...otherOpts,
+        url: this._baseUrl() + path,
+        headers: {
+          ...headers,
+          "Authorization": `Bearer ${this.$auth.api_key}`,
+          "Content-Type": "application/json",
+        },
+      });
+    },
+    async initiateCrawl(args) {
+      return this._makeRequest({
+        method: "POST",
+        path: "/crawl",
+        ...args,
+      });
     },
   },
-};
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+};
diff --git a/pnpm-lock.yaml b/pnpm-lock.yaml
index ed825eed80aef..5f23952045cb1 100644
--- a/pnpm-lock.yaml
+++ b/pnpm-lock.yaml
@@ -9396,7 +9396,10 @@ importers:
       form-data: 4.0.0
 
   components/spider:
-    specifiers: {}
+    specifiers:
+      '@pipedream/platform': ^3.0.3
+    dependencies:
+      '@pipedream/platform': 3.0.3
 
   components/spiritme:
     specifiers: