GET metal-archives.com HTTP 200257 ms21.5 KB$0.000085 captured Aug 7, 2026
metal-archives.com, as data
One API turns any metal-archives.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 257 ms
- Page size
- 21.5 KB of markdown, 188 lines
- Fields
- Business Name, Address, Phone, Category and 2 more
- Captured
- Aug 7, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This metal-archives.com page cost $0.000085 to fetch.
Phantom Corporation / CatbreathSo how does this poll work? Select your top ten metal albums of the year. Make sure those albums are listed on MA, that they consist of new, original material, and were released in 2025. Put your list in order, with #1 being the album you liked the most. You get one ballot, and your account on MA must've been registered before December 2nd, 2025 in order to participate.Once you're certain you have your list, send it to Voidsel by private message (pm) on the forum. You have until **12:00AM EST on January 1st, 2026** to submit your list to him - once the year changes, the polls are closed!The results of the poll will hopefully be announced in early January. In the meantime, feel free to discuss the poll in the thread located here.16th Diamhea Memorial Review Challenge / 2025-11-19 12:29Our classic reviews challenge will soon be upon us yet again.This challenge is a time-honored tradition among our reviewers here. Every spring and autumn, reviewers are encouraged to spend a week writing and submitting as many **quality** reviews as possible. The challenge is focused on **virgin albums: those with no reviews so far**.Every day, the reviews submitted and accepted are tallied, so that participants can see how they compare with one another and whether or not, altogether, we've been able to surpass previous challenges' totals. There's no prizes or rewards except knowing that you've given a review to an album that didn't previously have one. There's also bragging rights for the most reviews, if that matters to you. Please read this thread for the rules and to discuss the challenge!The challenge is named in memory of our friend Diamhea, a long-time contributor to the challenge and staff member here at Metal Archives, who sadly passed away on May 21st, 2018. He was the first person to have ever written 100 reviews for a single challenge!The challenge will run from **12:00AM EST on Monday December 1st** until **11:59PM EST on Sunday December 7th**.Everyone is welcome to participate - all you have to do is submit reviews as usual during that week.Looking forward to your participation! \m/What Spider does on metal-archives.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.
257 ms · $0.000085Page to JSON
Spider reads the page and names the fields. Pass your own schema when you need exact keys.
Whole site
Follows metal-archives.com's own links, respects robots, streams pages as they land.
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://metal-archives.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://metal-archives.com/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://metal-archives.com/", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What metal-archives.com costs
Multiplied from the measured 21.5 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 metal-archives.com.
The capture above took 257 ms and cost $0.000085. The same call takes any URL on metal-archives.com.