# Bytemine Crawl Start

> Bytemine Crawl Start is a paid API for AI agents from Bytemine at mpp.orthogonal.com, paid per call via MPP, $1.5/call (dynamic — varies by input), status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Starts a multi-page website crawl job with sitemap discovery and configurable depth and page limits, returning a job_id for tracking.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://mpp.orthogonal.com/bytemine/crawl/start?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $1.5/call (dynamic — varies by input)
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: Bytemine
- Docs: https://www.bytemine.ai/for/developers
- Website: https://www.bytemine.ai
- Tags: sales-intelligence, prospecting, enrichment, data
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/bytemine-crawl-start-d1c9cb7c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_tbyj8eYra73TQsVTwu5J5

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability bytemine-crawl-start-d1c9cb7c -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Start a crawl job on https://example.com with a depth of 3 and a limit of 50 pages, using Bytemine's multi-page crawler, and give me the job ID when it's kicked off.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to crawl an entire website or large sections of it across multiple pages and depths, rather than mapping URLs without scraping (use /map for that) or scraping a single page. Best suited for batch content extraction with sitemap-guided discovery.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unreachable URL returns an error
- Exceeded page or depth limits causes job rejection
- Insufficient credits (1 credit per call) causes authorization failure
- Malformed request body returns a 400 bad request
- Sitemap not found falls back to link extraction only

## How this service works

Start a multi-page crawl job with sitemap discovery and configurable depth/page limits. Returns job_id. 1 credit per page.

## Output

Returns a job_id that the agent can use to track or retrieve the results of the multi-page crawl job once it completes.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/bytemine-crawl-start-d1c9cb7c/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from mpp.orthogonal.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/mpp.orthogonal.com/llms.txt)