Hackmd Scraper
Spider read hackmd.io in 118 ms without a browser and returned 100 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Built for the team, open to your agents", "Write together, think together, ship together" and "Built for how communities actually work".
HackMD makes it easier to share with the team in concrete, technical details the features and rationale for a specific component.Mikerah Quintyne-CollinsFounder of HashCloak and Stoffel LabsRead the story](https://hackmd.io/blog/2026/05/07/hackmd-governance-layer-ai)## Built for the team, open to your agentsYour workspace, where humans collaborate and agents can keep up#### Write together, think together, ship togetherReal-time editing with multiple cursors, comments, version history, and GitHub sync. Everything your team already counts on, every day.* Live editing with multiple cursors* GitHub integrationEvery edit, every comment, every revision is tracked and recoverable, so your team's thinking isn't just captured in the final draft but in the full history of how you got there. That means onboarding someone new, revisiting a past decision, or understanding why something changed is never more than a scroll through the version timeline.Explore features](https://hackmd.io/s/features)#### Built for how communities actually work#### Give your agents the context they need, without the overheadEvery edit, every comment, every revision is tracked and recoverable, so your team's thinking isn't just captured in the final draft but in the full history of how you got there. That means onboarding someone new, revisiting a past decision, or understanding why something changed is never more than a scroll through the version timeline.[From hackathons and research groups to open-source projects, study groups, and devnets, HackMD has been the working surface for communities that build knowledge in the open.The same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on hackmd.io.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://hackmd.io");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const spider = new Spider({ apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY! });
const result = await spider.scrapeUrl("https://www.hackmd.io", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(result);Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What hackmd.io costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000345 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
- Free balance on signup
- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
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Start scraping hackmd.io.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.