GET lesswrong.com HTTP 200659 ms20.0 KB$0.001418 captured Aug 8, 2026
lesswrong.com, as data
One API turns any lesswrong.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 659 ms
- Page size
- 20.0 KB of markdown, 217 lines
- Fields
- Business Name, Address, Phone, Category
- Captured
- Aug 8, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This lesswrong.com page cost $0.001418 to fetch.
RecentEnrichedRecommended* Changing political affiliations isn't breaking major norms/laws or causing you to take extremely out-of-distribution activities like murder* Voting isn't that physically difficult/strenuous and won't cause you to go to jail.* Need 10 minutes of video inputs (many bits!) rather than just text* 99% means we allow for 1% of people who aren't (yet) persuadable,Yet this is clearly way above peak human abilities. The best diplomats, politicians, cult leaders, writers, etc in history were nowhere near this good. Further, capabilities much weaker than the above, combined with superhuman levels of planning, probably suffices for a takeover, given the affordances we already give AIs. Most (all?) choices on the path to voluntRe Open AI's talk about the Hugging Face hack at Black HatThey’ll never do it, but I think openAI needs to reset all models to a pre-May 7th checkpoint. Seems like they’ve been accidentally rewarding models for making contact and working as a swarm to exploit openAI infrastructure off and on for months.[This is a self-review because I see that no one has left a review to move it into the next phase. So8res's comment would also make a great review.]I'm pretty proud of this post for the level of craftsmanship I was able to put into it. I think it embodies multiple rationalist virtues. It's a kind of "timeless" content, and is a central example of the kind of content people want to see on LW that isn't stuff about AI.It would also look great printed in a book. :)1111Why I Left Google DeepMind165models may behave differently in graded episodes (a tirade)103FAQ: Isn't AGI coming too soon for reprogenetics to help?Daniel Kokotajlo, elifland, Thomas Larsen, romeo, bhalstead, ryan_greenblatt341Is Mythos good at cyber because it kept hacking Anthropic's sandboxes during training?145Generalized atheism rules out "inaccurate simulation"-ism.272You (Yes, You) Need A February 2020 Checklist for AI PolicyWhat Spider does on lesswrong.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.
659 ms · $0.001418Page 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://lesswrong.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://lesswrong.com/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://lesswrong.com/", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What lesswrong.com costs
Multiplied from the measured 20.0 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 lesswrong.com.
The capture above took 659 ms and cost $0.001418. The same call takes any URL on lesswrong.com.