GET libera.chat HTTP 200135 ms7.5 KB$0.000054 captured Aug 7, 2026
libera.chat, as data
One API turns any libera.chat 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 135 ms
- Page size
- 7.5 KB of markdown, 120 lines
- Fields
- Username, Post Content, Likes, Comments and 1 more
- Captured
- Aug 7, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This libera.chat page cost $0.000054 to fetch.
## LLMsLLM usage is *not* being banned outright on Libera.Chat. However,going forward, we are going to require greater transparency fromoperators of bots with LLM features *and* from channels whose operators haveexplicitly permitted LLMs to read or write messages in their channels.First, LLM usage on Libera.Chat must be supervised. If you run a bot thateither uses LLMs to produce message content or uses LLMs to process messages,you must ensure that either you or another human who has agreedto supervise your bot is present in any channels the bot has joined.Second, we’re going to be considering the processing of messages by LLMsto be public logging. This includes cases where messages are submitted toon submitted input, as well as cases where the bot operator asserts thatthe models are being run locally. We have no way of validating either claim,and LLM developers and advocates have an unfortunate track recordof acting in bad faith toward contributors to the common good.This has implications for channel operators. Specifically, channeloperators must inform users that their messages may be processed by LLMsif the operators consented to LLMs processing messages in their channels.In addition, we will also require channel operators to inform users if theymight interact with LLMs, as well as ensure that users can tell whichnicks in a channel correspond to LLM-powered bots.We recommend putting this information in the topic or a `ChanServ` entryAdditionally, we’re going to codify the assumption that an LLM is capableof taking any action permitted by the bot/client whenever promptingoccurs, regardless of what the prompt says. This reflects a growing corpusof real-world examples of AI assistants disobeying prompts and deletingimportant information. One of the practical consequences of this is that**AI assistants, agents, and other LLM-driven autonomous clients will be What Spider does on libera.chat
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.
135 ms · $0.000054Page 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://libera.chat/", "return_format": "markdown"}' from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://libera.chat/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"]) import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://libera.chat/", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content); What libera.chat costs
Multiplied from the measured 7.5 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 libera.chat.
The capture above took 135 ms and cost $0.000054. The same call takes any URL on libera.chat.