GET ycombinator.com HTTP 200295 ms24.8 KB$0.000468 captured Aug 7, 2026
ycombinator.com, as data
One API turns any ycombinator.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 295 ms
- Page size
- 24.8 KB of markdown, 371 lines
- Fields
- Site Footer, Site Header
- Captured
- Aug 7, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This ycombinator.com page cost $0.000468 to fetch.
Brian, Joe, and Nate did YC in W09.YC compresses months of growth into weeks.The sense of urgency is so infectious among founders that it becomes the most productive period in most people’s lives.It’s a community of founders that you can’t find anywhere else.It feels like having the entire world at your back—from Partners to batchmates.Being surrounded by the top 1% of founders in the world just completely resets the bar.You leave with a completely new sense of how fast ‘fast’ can be.## Be in the room with …## All partners wereGarry TanPosterous, S08 Co-founder of Posterous (acquired by Twitter) and Initialized Capital. Early engineer at Palantir, designed company logo.Harj TaggarAuctomatic, W07 Co-founder and CEO of Triplebyte (acquired by Karat) and Auctomatic (acquired by Live Current Media). Graduated from Oxford.Jared FriedmanScribd, S06 Co-founder of Scribd, one of the top 100 sites on the web. Harvard CS dropout.Aaron EpsteinCreative Market, W10 Co-founder of Creative Market, generating over $100M in sales for independent creators worldwide.Diana HuEscher Reality, S17 Co-founder and CTO of Escher Reality (acquired by Niantic). Shipped AR tech for Pokémon GO to 100M+ users and grew up in Chile.Gustaf AlströmerHeysan, W07 Led Growth at Airbnb for 4.5 years. Co-founder of Heysan. Previously Head of Growth at Voxer.Nicolas DessaigneAlgolia, W14 Co-founder of Algolia, a Search API used by millions of developers. PhD in Computer Science.Tom BlomfieldGoCardless, S11 Co-founder of Monzo (£500M raised, 10% UK population). Founded GoCardless. Awarded OBE in 2019.Brad FloraPerfect Audience, S11 Co-founder and CEO of Perfect Audience (acquired by Marin Software). Active angel investor and Slate contributor.Pete KoomenOptimizely, W10 Co-founder of Optimizely, grew to $100M+ ARR before acquisition. Master’s in CS from UIUC.What Spider does on ycombinator.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.
295 ms · $0.000468Page 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://ycombinator.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://ycombinator.com/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://ycombinator.com/", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What ycombinator.com costs
Multiplied from the measured 24.8 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 ycombinator.com.
The capture above took 295 ms and cost $0.000468. The same call takes any URL on ycombinator.com.