GET archiveofourown.org HTTP 200413 ms2.6 KB$0.000051 captured Aug 7, 2026

archiveofourown.org, as data

One API turns any archiveofourown.org 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 413 ms
Page size: 2.6 KB of markdown, 35 lines
Fields: Business Name, Address, Phone, Category and 1 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This archiveofourown.org page cost $0.000051 to fetch.

response 200 · 413 ms · 2.6 KB

## A non-profit, non-commercial archive for transformative fanworks; created by and for fans of books, music, art, games, shows, movies, real-person fiction (RPF), and other fandoms.The Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a project of the Organization for Transformative Works.#### With an AO3 account, you can:* Get notified when your favorite works, series, or users update* Keep track of works you've visited and works you want to check out laterYou can join by getting an invitation from our automated invite queue. All fans and fanworks are welcome!> In late July, Policy & Abuse (PAC) coordinated with Accessibility, Design & Technology and Systems to increase AO3 account security measures against logins with insecure passwords in response to an active phishing comment scam targeting thousands of users. PAC also worked with Communications and Support to publish several social media posts to help users secure their accounts and keep them informed.> Are you detail-oriented and passionate about supporting meaningful work behind the scenes? Do you have an interest in preserving fannish history, wiki editing, or writing help documentation? Do you know your way around the platforms where fan studies conversations happen? Are you a senior PhD student (ABD) or an early career scholar? Would you like to help your fellow fans use AO3? Are you fluent in Spanish? Do you have experience with mediation, arbitration, or conflict resolution? Are you good at administrative tasks and working with people? The Organization for Transformative Works is recruiting!> The election season is in full swing! As part of the election season, we have a chat with our candidates coming up soon. You can also find links to the candidates' answers to your questions at the bottom of this post.### Follow usFollow AO3 on Bluesky or Tumblr for status updates, and don't forget to check out the Organization for Transformative Works' news outlets for updates on our other projects!* @status.archiveofourown.org on Bluesky

POST /scrape · archiveofourown.org/index.md · markdown · 35 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on archiveofourown.org

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.

413 ms · $0.000051

/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 archiveofourown.org'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://archiveofourown.org/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What archiveofourown.org costs

Multiplied from the measured 2.6 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 2.6 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000051

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.00153

1,000 pages this size 2.6 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.05

10,000 pages this size 25.9 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.51

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.

Point this at the rest of archiveofourown.org.

The capture above took 413 ms and cost $0.000051. The same call takes any URL on archiveofourown.org.

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