GET npmjs.org HTTP 200257 ms4.2 KB$0.000025 captured Aug 7, 2026

npmjs.org, as data

One API turns any npmjs.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.

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Render mode: Plain HTTP, no browser needed
Response: HTTP 200 in 257 ms
Page size: 4.2 KB of markdown, 27 lines
Fields: Business Name, Address, Phone, Category and 2 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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response 200 · 257 ms · 4.2 KB

*This piece is a part of our Customer Convos series. We’re sharing stories of how people use npm at work. Want to share your thoughts? Drop us a line.***Q: Hi! Can you state your name, what you do, and/or what your company does?****A:** Hey there! My name is Feross Aboukhadijeh. I&rsquo;m an entrepreneur and programmer who spends a lot of time writing open source code. A few examples of projects I started are WebTorrent and Standard, which are open source. You can learn more about my newest projects by checking out my blog or GitHub profile.Pretty great! I&rsquo;m happy that it&rsquo;s finally the weekend. I&rsquo;m doing some reading, open source maintenance, and tonight I&rsquo;m hosting a party with my awesome housemates.**Tell me the story of npm at your company. What specific problem did you have that npm solved?**I first encountered npm while starting my first company, PeerCDN, in 2013. PeerCDN was a peer-to-peer content delivery network (CDN) which aimed to make the web faster, and help reduce website bandwidth costs. npm allowed us to build something useful super quickly. We installed `express`, `ws`, wrote some custom WebRTC magic and we had prototype off the ground in a few weeks. (We were eventually acquired by Yahoo).The vast majority of the software I&rsquo;ve written has been open source. I have over 100 packages on npm! I am able to create lots of value in the world when I don’t restrict how people can use my work. Publishing things under an open source license lets anyone use my code however they like, which is super powerful.**To people who are unsure what they could use npm for — how would you explain the use case?**If you want to use any modern JavaScript library, you&rsquo;re going to get it from npm. Period.**How’s the day to day experience of using npm?**These two magic commands are the not-so-secret incantations that bring any npm package to life. As an npm user, you&rsquo;ll type these commands dozens of times every day.

POST /scrape · blog.npmjs.org/post/175052604130/customer-convos-standard-js.md · markdown · Showing 11 of 27 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on npmjs.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.

257 ms · $0.000025

/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 npmjs.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://blog.npmjs.org/post/175052604130/customer-convos-standard-js.html", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://blog.npmjs.org/post/175052604130/customer-convos-standard-js.html", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])

import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";

const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://blog.npmjs.org/post/175052604130/customer-convos-standard-js.html", {
  return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What npmjs.org costs

Multiplied from the measured 4.2 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 4.2 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000025

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.000753

1,000 pages this size 4.1 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.03

10,000 pages this size 40.7 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.25

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.

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