GET metafilter.com HTTP 200108 ms35.3 KB$0.000119 captured Aug 7, 2026
metafilter.com, as data
One API turns any metafilter.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 108 ms
- Page size
- 35.3 KB of markdown, 185 lines
- Fields
- Business Name, Address, Phone, Category
- Captured
- Aug 7, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This metafilter.com page cost $0.000119 to fetch.
## Workin' On A World (Iris DeMent)3:45 song by Iris DeMent with an important message for our times. I just love this song and its message, and I thought I'd share it with you, my MF friends <3posted by mpark at 11:36 AM - 10 comments## You can already hear his roar in your head before you click play"As long as nuclear weapons or nuclear power exists, Godzilla will never not be relevant."* [more inside]posted by Kitteh at 11:05 AM - 42 comments## [The ultimate sin of any [platform] is contempt for the audience.](https://metafilter.com/214060/The-ultimate-sin-of-any-platform-is-contempt-for-the-audience)Jacob Daneman broke the news last night that *BrooklynVegan* fired their entire staff yesterday. Today it was confirmed, in addition to similar mass firings at *Alternative Press, Goldmine* and *Revolver*. [more inside]posted by 99_ at 10:42 AM - 38 comments## I've embraced professional hater status> "I work for a company that produces luxury items", one worker tells me. "Any time I get prompted that my 'token spend' is too low (0), I go in and ask ChatGPT random gardening questions. So far it has failed to adequately build a rain garden, but I’ve gotten it to describe a sweet potato once."Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer's AI Mandatesposted by postcommunism at 8:30 AM - 150 comments## Better than the usual stuff I get when Meta spies on me...A couple of days ago, I made a post about the Heritage Crafts list of endangered crafts and noted that I hoped to make some additional posts about some of the crafts. Then today, I got a suggested post on IG from Welby & Wright, maker of encaustic tiles, a craft on the critically endangered list. [more inside]posted by jacquilynne at 7:55 AM - 7 comments## The Yacht That Lost Everything but Its FameM/Y Nabila 86m was launched 1980.What Spider does on metafilter.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.
108 ms · $0.000119Page 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://metafilter.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://metafilter.com/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://metafilter.com/", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What metafilter.com costs
Multiplied from the measured 35.3 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 metafilter.com.
The capture above took 108 ms and cost $0.000119. The same call takes any URL on metafilter.com.