GET character.ai HTTP 200762 ms5.4 KB$0.000522 captured Aug 7, 2026

character.ai, as data

One API turns any character.ai 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.

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Render mode: Plain HTTP, no browser needed
Response: HTTP 200 in 762 ms
Page size: 5.4 KB of markdown, 53 lines
Fields: Business Name, Address, Phone, Category and 1 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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response 200 · 762 ms · 5.4 KB

Character.AI](https://book.character.ai/)* Remixing and Definition Visibility* Direct Image Description Visibility* 🎨Image Generating Characters* Challenges and LimitationsFor the complete documentation index, see llms.txt. This page is also available as Markdown.# Avatar**Avatar** *The avatar image will be used in combination with the name and other elements to make your Character visually interesting and unique.*The avatar can be in a variety of formats (png, gif, jpeg) and ideally be a square aspect ratio image that is 512x512.The avatar you upload will be cropped into a circle in chat contexts (left) and shown as an uncropped square image on the home screen when in a character information card form (right).The avatar you upload will be run through moderation filters, and will be denied if it does not meet our guidelines.PreviousNameNextGreeting

POST /scrape · book.character.ai/character-guide/character-attributes/avatar.md · markdown · 53 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on character.ai

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.

762 ms · $0.000522

/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 character.ai'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://book.character.ai/character-guide/character-attributes/avatar", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://book.character.ai/character-guide/character-attributes/avatar", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])

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

const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://book.character.ai/character-guide/character-attributes/avatar", {
  return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What character.ai costs

Multiplied from the measured 5.4 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 5.4 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000522

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.02

1,000 pages this size 5.3 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.52

10,000 pages this size 52.8 MB at the measured price ≈ $5.22

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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