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Afriref

by afriref.dev in Markets & finance

x402 APIPassing, checked 32 min ago

Pan-African official government reference data as cited JSON, every covered country: income and corporate tax, VAT/GST, CPI inflation, central-bank policy rate, minimum wage, public holidays, business days, official exchange rate, statutory interest, social contributions. Each value has source URL, effective date, last_confirmed, stale. GET /v1/{country}/{series}, e.g. /v1/gh/policy-rate.

GET
https://afriref.dev/v1/:country/:series
Price
$0.005
per call in USDC
Uptime
100%
last 30 days
Response time
864 ms
972 ms slowest 5%
Last check
Passed
32 min ago, next any minute now

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How to call it

GET https://afriref.dev/v1/:country/:series

Each call costs $0.005 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://afriref.dev/v1/:country/:series

Example response

The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.

{
  "country": "GH",
  "effective_from": "2026-01-01",
  "illustrative": true,
  "last_confirmed": "2026-01-01",
  "name": "Central bank policy rate",
  "note": "Shape only. Values are placeholders; pay to receive the live cited figure.",
  "series": "policy-rate",
  "source_url": "https://example.gov/official-source",
  "stale": false,
  "unit": "%",
  "value": 0
}

Call it from code

The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.005.

curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://afriref.dev/v1/:country/:series'

# 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://afriref.dev/v1/:country/:series' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode
JavaScript: 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 $0.005 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.005" });
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 $0.005 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fafriref.dev%2Fv1%2F%3Acountry%2F%3Aseries
const res = await pay("https://afriref.dev/v1/:country/:series");
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 $0.005 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.005"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://afriref.dev/v1/:country/:series")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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