GET kottke.org HTTP 200491 ms122.0 KB$0.000557 captured Aug 7, 2026
kottke.org, as data
One API turns any kottke.org 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 491 ms
- Page size
- 122.0 KB of markdown, 1,175 lines
- Fields
- Business Name, Address, Phone, Category
- Captured
- Aug 7, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This kottke.org page cost $0.000557 to fetch.
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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.
491 ms · $0.000557Page 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://kottke.org/", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://kottke.org/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://kottke.org/", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What kottke.org costs
Multiplied from the measured 122.0 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 kottke.org.
The capture above took 491 ms and cost $0.000557. The same call takes any URL on kottke.org.