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GET chess.com HTTP 200109 ms1.8 KB$0.000199 captured Aug 7, 2026

chess.com, as data

One API turns any chess.com 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 109 ms
Page size
1.8 KB of markdown, 60 lines
Fields
Business Name, Address, Phone, Category and 1 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This chess.com page cost $0.000199 to fetch.

response 200 · 109 ms · 1.8 KB
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POST /scrape · chess.com/index.md · markdown · 60 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on chess.com

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.

109 ms · $0.000199
/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 chess.com'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://chess.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What chess.com costs

Multiplied from the measured 1.8 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 1.8 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000199
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.005956
1,000 pages this size 1.7 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.20
10,000 pages this size 17.5 MB at the measured price ≈ $1.99

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 chess.com.

The capture above took 109 ms and cost $0.000199. The same call takes any URL on chess.com.

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