GET xkcd.com HTTP 200200 ms3.2 KB$0.000022 captured Aug 7, 2026

xkcd.com, as data

One API turns any xkcd.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.

target profile from the capture

Render mode: Plain HTTP, no browser needed
Response: HTTP 200 in 200 ms
Page size: 3.2 KB of markdown, 52 lines
Fields: Business Name, Address, Phone, Category
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This xkcd.com page cost $0.000022 to fetch.

response 200 · 200 ms · 3.2 KB

XKCD updates every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.Permanent link to this comic: https://xkcd.com/3281/Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/antiques_roadshow.pngJunior Scientist Power HourTips on technology and government,xkcd.com is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below on a Pentium 3&plusmn;1 emulated in Javascript on an Apple IIGSat a screen resolution of 1024x1. Please enable your ad blockers, disable high-heat drying, and remove your devicefrom Airplane Mode and set it to Boat Mode. For security reasons, please leave caps lock on while browsing.This work is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). More details.

POST /scrape · xkcd.com/index.md · markdown · 52 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on xkcd.com

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.

200 ms · $0.000022

/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 xkcd.com'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://xkcd.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://xkcd.com/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])

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

const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://xkcd.com/", {
  return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What xkcd.com costs

Multiplied from the measured 3.2 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 3.2 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000022

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.000648

1,000 pages this size 3.1 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.02

10,000 pages this size 31.0 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.22

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 200 ms and cost $0.000022. The same call takes any URL on xkcd.com.

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