Adverse Media Check
by api.strale.io in Company & people data
Screens a person or company for adverse news coverage across 235,000+ sources via Dilisense (primary) with Serper Google search fallback. Returns audit-grade evidence: risk level with documented thresholds, FATF-aligned category counts, top article headli…
https://api.strale.io/x402/v2/adverse-media-check- Price
- $0.216
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 132 ms
- 383 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 2 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
How to call it
GET https://api.strale.io/x402/v2/adverse-media-check
Each call costs $0.216 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
GET https://api.strale.io/x402/v2/adverse-media-check?country=example_country&entity_name=example_entity_name&entity_type=person&name=example_nameParameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
country | string | No | Additional context like industry or country (optional) |
entity_name | string | No | Alias for name (optional) |
entity_type | string | No | Override auto-detection of entity type (optional) One of: person, company. |
name | string | Yes | Person or company name to screen |
Example response
The listing has no example response.
Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.216.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://api.strale.io/x402/v2/adverse-media-check?country=example_country&entity_name=example_entity_name&entity_type=person&name=example_name'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://api.strale.io/x402/v2/adverse-media-check?country=example_country&entity_name=example_entity_name&entity_type=person&name=example_name' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.216 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.216" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.216 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.strale.io%2Fx402%2Fv2%2Fadverse-media-check
const res = await pay("https://api.strale.io/x402/v2/adverse-media-check?country=example_country&entity_name=example_entity_name&entity_type=person&name=example_name");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.216 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.216"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://api.strale.io/x402/v2/adverse-media-check?country=example_country&entity_name=example_entity_name&entity_type=person&name=example_name")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 h ago | Passed | 402 | 125 ms | $0.216 |
| 6 h ago | Passed | 402 | 304 ms | $0.216 |
| 10 h ago | Passed | 402 | 272 ms | $0.216 |
| 14 h ago | Passed | 402 | 129 ms | $0.216 |
| 18 h ago | Passed | 402 | 294 ms | $0.216 |
Show 10 older checks
| 22 h ago | Passed | 402 | 286 ms | $0.216 |
| 26 h ago | Passed | 402 | 422 ms | $0.216 |
| 30 h ago | Passed | 402 | 361 ms | $0.216 |
| 34 h ago | Passed | 402 | 129 ms | $0.216 |
| 37 h ago | Passed | 402 | 126 ms | $0.216 |
| 41 h ago | Passed | 402 | 331 ms | $0.216 |
| 44 h ago | Passed | 402 | 383 ms | $0.216 |
| 47 h ago | Passed | 402 | 292 ms | $0.216 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 129 ms | $0.216 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 359 ms | $0.216 |