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GET lichess.org HTTP 200229 ms8.0 KB$0.000065 captured Aug 7, 2026

lichess.org, as data

One API turns any lichess.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.

target profile from the capture
Render mode
Plain HTTP, no browser needed
Response
HTTP 200 in 229 ms
Page size
8.0 KB of markdown, 50 lines
Fields
Business Name, Address, Phone, Category and 1 more
Captured
Aug 7, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This lichess.org page cost $0.000065 to fetch.

response 200 · 229 ms · 8.0 KB
You can now customize the shape of buttons and other elements on Lichess! Open your account menu, go to *Theme* settings, and adjust the *Roundness* to make corners rounded or square.Our Game of the Month July Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in July 2026 until 2026-08-12! The winner will be announced on 2026-08-24, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.Congrats @Fritzi_2003 on winning our 2026 Summer Marathon with a 74% win rate in 875 games, finishing 720 points ahead of runner-up @speedrunchessgames! Thanks to all 20,350 registered players who played a total of 429,085 games and 30,608,664 moves. Our 2026 Autumn Marathon will start on 2026-10-24 at 00:00 UTC.More new features and improvements were added to Lichess! See what our developers and community contributors have been working on in the updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum.Our 2026 Summer Marathon starts on 2026-08-01 00:00 UTC! Join us for 24 hours of 1+0 Bullet and take part in one of the biggest chess tournaments in history. The top 500, top 100, top 50, top 10 and the winner will all get a unique trophy.Congrats @Bengal_Tiger_2011 on winning the Lichess Game of the Month June 2026! Thank you for all your countless submissions!Congratulations to IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher for winning our Bullet Titled Arena July 2026, ahead of FM @BrightFalcon, GM Pranav Venkatesh, GM Sergei Zhigalko, and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk!More »](https://lichess.org/tournament)More »](https://lichess.org/simul)About LichessFAQContactMobile AppTerms of ServicePrivacySource CodeAdsMastodonGitHubDiscordBlueskyYouTubeTwitch
POST /scrape · lichess.org/index.md · markdown · Showing 11 of 50 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on lichess.org

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.

229 ms · $0.000065
/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 lichess.org'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://lichess.org/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What lichess.org costs

Multiplied from the measured 8.0 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 8.0 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000065
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.001964
1,000 pages this size 7.9 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.07
10,000 pages this size 78.5 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.65

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 lichess.org.

The capture above took 229 ms and cost $0.000065. The same call takes any URL on lichess.org.

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