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Bots

by how.is in Developer tools

x402 APIPassing, checked 2 h ago

Partner tier of the dns.pizza bot observatory: every network (ASN), named crawler, TLS (JA4) fingerprint and firewall rule seen in the last 7 days, refreshed hourly. The public tier is free at https://dns.pizza/bots.

POST
https://how.is/v1/bots
Price
$0.05
per call in USDC
Uptime
100%
last 30 days
Response time
329 ms
471 ms slowest 5%
Last check
Passed
2 h ago, next any minute now

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How to call it

POST https://how.is/v1/bots

Each call costs $0.05 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.

POST https://how.is/v1/bots
content-type: application/json

{}

Example response

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

{
  "data": {
    "_shape": "data.data: generated_at, networks, bots, fingerprints (the free tier at dns.pizza/bots shows the same shape without fingerprints)."
  },
  "receipt": {
    "charge_usd": 0.05,
    "rail": "x402",
    "settlement_tx": "0x…",
    "tool": "bots"
  },
  "result": "Bot observatory feed for the requested subject"
}

Call it from code

The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.05.

curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://how.is/v1/bots' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{}'

# 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 - -X POST 'https://how.is/v1/bots' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{}' \
  | 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 $0.05 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.05" });
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 $0.05 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhow.is%2Fv1%2Fbots&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://how.is/v1/bots", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({}),
});
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 $0.05 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.05"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.post(
        "https://how.is/v1/bots",
        json={},
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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