# Orthogonal Bytemine Web Scraper (Markdown + Metadata)

> Orthogonal Bytemine Web Scraper (Markdown + Metadata) is a paid API for AI agents from x402.orthogonal.com, paid per call via x402, $0.03/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Scrapes a given URL and returns structured markdown content, extracted links, page metadata, and tech stack information, falling back to Firecrawl if the primary scrape fails.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.orthogonal.com/bytemine/crawl/scrape
- Price: $0.03/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/orthogonal-bytemine-web-scraper-markdown-metadata-a623ea4d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_XIMokhcMO8RO55dk3H7DC

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-scraper-markdown-metadata-a623ea4d -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you scrape https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/15/openai-news/ and give me the article content as markdown along with any links and the tech stack the site uses?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need rich structured output from a single URL — specifically markdown content, links, metadata, and tech stack all in one call. It is preferable over a raw HTML scraper when your downstream use case is content reading, summarization, or link extraction, since it pre-processes the page into clean markdown. The Firecrawl fallback improves reliability over single-provider scrapers.

## Known failure modes

- Target URL is behind a login wall or CAPTCHA — returns partial or empty content
- URL is unreachable or returns a non-200 status — returns an error response
- Primary scraper fails and Firecrawl fallback is invoked, which may add latency
- Dynamically rendered JavaScript-heavy pages may return incomplete content if JS is not executed
- Very large pages may be truncated

## How this service works

Scrape a URL and return markdown, links, metadata, and tech stack. Falls back to Firecrawl if needed. 1 credit.

## Output

Returns structured data including the page content rendered as markdown (clean, readable text stripped of HTML), a list of all hyperlinks found on the page, page metadata (title, description, Open Graph tags, etc.), and detected tech stack information (frameworks, CMS, analytics tools, etc.).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "url": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "URL to scrape"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/orthogonal-bytemine-web-scraper-markdown-metadata-a623ea4d/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)