GET devpost.com HTTP 2002.9 s5.8 KB$0.00008 captured Aug 7, 2026
devpost.com, as data
One API turns any devpost.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.
- Render mode
- Plain HTTP, no browser needed
- Response
- HTTP 200 in 2.9 s
- Page size
- 5.8 KB of markdown, 65 lines
- Fields
- Headline, Summary, Author, Published Date
- Captured
- Aug 7, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This devpost.com page cost $0.00008 to fetch.
Before every hackathon, Dylan made himself a promise: he'd learn at least one new technology during the event. First hackathon, APIs. Second, databases. Each weekend added a layer, and the knowledge stacked up.> "You're committed to sitting there to build something, and why not just use that same weekend to learn something new?"He didn't wait until he felt ready for a new tool. The hackathon was the forcing function. By his 20th event, he had exposure to tools and frameworks that would've taken years to pick up through coursework alone.## Dylan's take on what wins hackathonsDylan's advice on pitching is simple. Convince the judge that a problem exists, show what people currently do about it, then explain why your solution is better."The first step of my ‘three-step plan’ is to convince the judge that there is a problem. The second one is to say what people are doing right now. And the third one is to talk about how you come in and how you are better than the existing status quo."He also thinks the best projects tend to mix technologies. Hardware plus web plus AI plus mobile—the more elements you combine, the more the project grabs attention. But the pitch is what seals it.*Dylan Vu is a software engineer at Amazon. He graduated in 2024 and has been part of nearly 60 hackathons as a hacker, mentor, and judge.*Feeling inspired to build something amazing? Check out our hackathons happening now!## Related posts Participant resources ### User Story: How Iron Man Inspired a Win at the Gemini Live Agents Challenge Here's how Bryen Param built a drone you can talk to — and why he almost didn't believe he'd won Best of Live Agents in Google's Gemini Live Agent Challenge.Participant resources ### Build AI agents for real-world challenges in the Google Cloud Rapid Agent Hackathon Build a Gemini-powered AI agent using MCP integrations from six technology partners and compete for prizes in the Google Cloud Rapid Agent Hackathon.What Spider does on devpost.com
Same key, five endpoints. The numbers under a cell were measured on this page.
Page to markdown
Clean text for RAG and LLM context, boilerplate removed. The lane that runs without a key.
2.9 s · $0.00008Page to JSON
Spider reads the page and names the fields. Pass your own schema when you need exact keys.
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.
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://info.devpost.com/blog/user-story-dylan-vu", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://info.devpost.com/blog/user-story-dylan-vu", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://info.devpost.com/blog/user-story-dylan-vu", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What devpost.com costs
Multiplied from the measured 5.8 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.
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 devpost.com.
The capture above took 2.9 s and cost $0.00008. The same call takes any URL on devpost.com.