# Orthogonal Crawl Snapshot

> Orthogonal Crawl Snapshot is a paid API for AI agents from x402.orthogonal.com, paid per call via x402, $0.03/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Saves a point-in-time snapshot of a webpage's content so it can later be compared against future versions to detect changes.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.orthogonal.com/bytemine/crawl/snapshot
- Price: $0.03/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/orthogonal-crawl-snapshot-4d7b97bc
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_8MkkSzlF71Hes47PoXFGl

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-crawl-snapshot-4d7b97bc -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Take a snapshot of https://example.com/pricing right now and save it so I can track whether their pricing page changes.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to establish a baseline content state for a specific URL before monitoring it for changes. It is the first step in a two-step change-detection workflow: snapshot first, then use /crawl/diff later to compare. Prefer this over a generic scrape endpoint when your goal is change tracking rather than immediate content extraction.

## Known failure modes

- URL is unreachable or returns a non-200 status — snapshot not created
- Invalid or malformed URL — request rejected with validation error
- Page requires JavaScript rendering that the crawler does not support — incomplete snapshot
- Network timeout reaching the target URL — request fails
- Insufficient credits/payment — 402 payment required error

## How this service works

Save a snapshot of a page's current content for change tracking. Use with /crawl/diff to detect changes. 1 credit.

## Output

A stored snapshot record of the page's current content at the time of the call, identified by the URL and a timestamp, which can subsequently be referenced by a /crawl/diff call to detect changes between snapshots.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "url": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "URL to take a snapshot of"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/orthogonal-crawl-snapshot-4d7b97bc/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)