GET lwn.net HTTP 200110 ms19.2 KB$0.000053 captured Aug 7, 2026
lwn.net, as data
One API turns any lwn.net 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 110 ms
- Page size
- 19.2 KB of markdown, 234 lines
- Fields
- Business Name, Address, Phone, Category
- Captured
- Aug 7, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This lwn.net page cost $0.000053 to fetch.
# Welcome to LWN.net[Kernel] Posted Aug 5, 2026 15:59 UTC (Wed) by jakeUserspace](https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/fuse/) (FUSE) maintainer Miklos Szeredi led a birds-of-a-feather(BoF) discussion about the subsystem atFilesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lsfmmbpf/). In it, he talked aboutmaintenance challenges, proposed features and their status, and his plansfor a new FUSE API. There is a lot of interest and activity in theFUSE community these days it seems.## [$] Fedora considers conflict-of-interest policy[Distributions] Posted Aug 4, 2026 16:43 UTC (Tue) by jzbCouncil](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/) is consideringa conflict-of-interest (COI) policy for its decision-making bodies,such as the [Fedora EngineeringSteering Committee](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/) (FESCo), special-interest groups (SIGs), andany other groups or individuals that report to the council andare responsible for decisions that impact the Fedora project. Thecurrent draft does not, however, apply to the council itself. The [publicdiscussion](https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/conflict-of-interest-guidelines-policy-draft-feedback-please/197508) for the COI policy began on July23 and seems to benearing completion, with the council set to discuss the topic againduring its meeting on August13.## [$] The beginning of a process-builder API[Kernel] Posted Aug 4, 2026 13:27 UTC (Tue) by corbetThe recent discussion on "spawn templates"raised questions about whether it was time to provide an alternative to theclassic Unix fork()/exec() pattern for process creation.One idea that was raised there was to shift the template pattern into aninterface that could be used to efficiently assemble new processes frombare cloth, without duplicating the parent process. Preferably, thatinterface would be able to implement posix_spawn().What Spider does on lwn.net
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.
110 ms · $0.000053Page 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://lwn.net/", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://lwn.net/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://lwn.net/", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What lwn.net costs
Multiplied from the measured 19.2 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 lwn.net.
The capture above took 110 ms and cost $0.000053. The same call takes any URL on lwn.net.