GET vim.org HTTP 200611 ms3.0 KB$0.000031 captured Aug 7, 2026

vim.org, as data

One API turns any vim.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 611 ms
Page size: 3.0 KB of markdown, 56 lines
Fields: Business Name, Address, Phone, Category
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This vim.org page cost $0.000031 to fetch.

response 200 · 611 ms · 3.0 KB

**Comments, bugs, improvements**The plugin implements 2 functions: BlockShiftUp() and BlockShiftDown(). When selecting blocks of text in visual mode, these functions will shift the block one up, or down. The textmanip plugin offers equal functionality but did not behave the way I would've expect it.|Copy the file into you plugins directory (i.e. ~/.vim/plugins). Now you need to define the keyboard mappings in your .vimrc file:vmap <C-k> :call BlockShiftUp()<CR>vmap <C-j> :call BlockShiftDown()<CR>So, when you're in visual mode and selected a block of text, you now can shift it up/down by pressing [Ctrl]+[k] and [Ctrl]+[j].|script versions (upload new version)Click on the package to download.ip used for rating: 81.22.137.157Questions about Vim should go

POST /scrape · vim.org/scripts/script.md · markdown · Showing 10 of 56 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on vim.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.

611 ms · $0.000031

/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 vim.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://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4754", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4754", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])

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

const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4754", {
  return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What vim.org costs

Multiplied from the measured 3.0 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 3.0 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000031

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.000917

1,000 pages this size 2.9 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.03

10,000 pages this size 29.0 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.31

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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The capture above took 611 ms and cost $0.000031. The same call takes any URL on vim.org.

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