# Orthogonal Bytemine Web Crawl Start

> Orthogonal Bytemine Web Crawl Start is a paid API for AI agents from x402.orthogonal.com, paid per call via x402, $1.5/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Starts a multi-page website crawl job with sitemap discovery, returning a job_id for tracking; billed at 1 credit per page crawled.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.orthogonal.com/bytemine/crawl/start
- Price: $1.5/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/orthogonal-bytemine-web-crawl-start-29fcd9d8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_VlCom8pw1GdnzatEoH3Pz

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 orthogonal-bytemine-web-crawl-start-29fcd9d8 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you start a crawl of https://docs.example.com, going up to 4 levels deep and crawling at most 100 pages, so I can extract all the documentation content?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to systematically crawl and index multiple pages of a website with configurable depth and page limits, especially when sitemap discovery is useful. Prefer this over single-page fetch endpoints when you need content from an entire site or subsection, not just one URL. Best suited for batch, background workloads rather than real-time single-page retrieval.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unreachable URL returns an error with no job_id
- max_depth or max_pages values outside allowed ranges may be rejected
- Crawl job may fail if the target site blocks bots or requires authentication
- Exceeding credit balance may prevent job completion mid-crawl
- Sitemap discovery failure may limit pages found if no sitemap.xml exists

## 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 can be used to track the crawl job's progress and retrieve results. The crawl runs asynchronously, discovering pages via sitemap and link-following up to the configured depth and page count limits, billing 1 credit per page crawled.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "url": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Website URL to crawl"
  },
  "max_depth": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Maximum crawl depth (default 3)"
  },
  "max_pages": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Maximum pages to crawl (default 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/orthogonal-bytemine-web-crawl-start-29fcd9d8/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.orthogonal.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.orthogonal.com/llms.txt)