GET die.net HTTP 200218 ms1.6 KB$0.000018 captured Aug 7, 2026

die.net, as data

One API turns any die.net 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 218 ms
Page size: 1.6 KB of markdown, 34 lines
Fields: Business Name, Address, Phone, Category and 2 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This die.net page cost $0.000018 to fetch.

response 200 · 218 ms · 1.6 KB

Online since 1996, **die.net** hosts the collective**Mar 28** Removed obsolete Google Translate widget**Mar 22** Site template is now more responsive and accessible**Nov 19** Moved hosting to newer hardware**Nov 18** Trace Explorer shut down**May 20** Added a CDN to improve page load time**Oct 12** Switched to responsive CSS to improve mobile experience**Apr 13** Dictionary.die.net shut down**Nov 17** Added Reducing Junk Mail,my short guide on freeing my home's mailbox from unwanted piles of paper**Apr 05** Added Trace Explorer, an Internet routing visualization tool**Jan 27** The World Sunlight Map and Moon Phase images now look a bit better**Oct 28** Optimizing page load time addedand was quickly featured on Slashdot,**Jan 13** The New York Times ran a short blurb about the World Sunlight Map**Jul 14** Google ads added to dictionary.die.net and Linux man pages**Jun 17** Linux man pages reformatted nicely**Feb 27** Dictionary.die.net online dictionary added**Jan 08** United States National Debt analysis added**Dec 05** TCP tarpit module accepted by maintainers of Linux iptables

POST /scrape · die.net/index.md · markdown · Showing 20 of 34 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on die.net

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.

218 ms · $0.000018

/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 die.net'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://die.net/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

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

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

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

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What die.net costs

Multiplied from the measured 1.6 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 1.6 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000018

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.000527

1,000 pages this size 1.5 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.02

10,000 pages this size 15.4 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.18

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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The capture above took 218 ms and cost $0.000018. The same call takes any URL on die.net.

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