Business Entity Check

{
  "next_page": null,
  "page": 0,
  "page_size": 25,
  "rows": [
    {
      "city": "Colorado Springs",
      "county": null,
      "county_method": "none",
      "entity_id": "19871570075",
      "entity_key": "CO:19871570075",
      "entity_type": "Corp",
      "entity_type_raw": "DPC",
      "formation_date": "1984-05-03",
      "jurisdiction": "CO",
      "leie_match": false,
      "leie_matched_names": [],
      "match_method": "none",
      "name": "ACME PAWNSHOP INC.",
      "ofac_match": false,
      "ofac_matched_names": [],
      "principal_address": "2311 E Platte Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80909",
      "registered_agent": "DAVID THERON DOWNEY",
      "registry_url": "https://www.coloradosos.gov/biz/BusinessEntityCriteriaExt.do",
      "scraped_at": "2026-10-15T12:00:00Z",
      "source_url": "https://data.colorado.gov/resource/4ykn-tg5h",
      "state": "CO",
      "status": "active",
      "status_raw": "Good Standing",
      "zip": "80909"
    },
    {
      "city": null,
      "county": null,
      "county_method": "none",
      "entity_id": "19871091235",
      "entity_key": "CO:19871091235",
      "entity_type": "Other",
      "entity_type_raw": "IC",
      "formation_date": "1930-02-03",
      "jurisdiction": "CO",
      "leie_match": false,
      "leie_matched_names": [],
      "match_method": "none",
      "name": "ACME LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY",
      "ofac_match": false,
      "ofac_matched_names": [],
      "principal_address": null,
      "registered_agent": "Division of Insurance",
      "registry_url": "https://www.coloradosos.gov/biz/BusinessEntityCriteriaExt.do",
      "scraped_at": "2026-10-15T12:00:00Z",
      "source_url": "https://data.colorado.gov/resource/4ykn-tg5h",
      "state": "CO",
      "status": "active",
      "status_raw": "Exists",
      "zip": null
    },
    {
      "city": null,
      "county": null,
      "county_method": "none",
      "entity_id": "19871053880",
      "entity_key": "CO:19871053880",
      "entity_type": "Other",
      "entity_type_raw": "DT",
      "formation_date": "1911-03-13",
      "jurisdiction": "CO",
      "leie_match": false,
      "leie_matched_names": [],
      "match_method": "none",
      "name": "ACME DITCH COMPANY",
      "ofac_match": false,
      "ofac_matched_names": [],
      "principal_address": null,
      "registered_agent": null,
      "registry_url": "https://www.coloradosos.gov/biz/BusinessEntityCriteriaExt.do",
      "scraped_at": "2026-10-15T12:00:00Z",
      "source_url": "https://data.colorado.gov/resource/4ykn-tg5h",
      "state": "CO",
      "status": "active",
      "status_raw": "Exists",
      "zip": null
    }
  ],
  "service": "business-entity-check"
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://api.scrapebench.dev/v1/business-entity-check' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"name":"acme","state":"CO"}'

# 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://api.scrapebench.dev/v1/business-entity-check' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"name":"acme","state":"CO"}' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// 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 $0.08 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.08" });
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 $0.08 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.scrapebench.dev%2Fv1%2Fbusiness-entity-check&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.scrapebench.dev/v1/business-entity-check", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "name": "acme",
    "state": "CO"
  }),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# 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 $0.08 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.08"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.post(
        "https://api.scrapebench.dev/v1/business-entity-check",
        json={
            "name": "acme",
            "state": "CO",
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)