Controversy Pulse
by research.halowerk.com in News & content
Tracks how much is written about an organisation and in what tone, comparing a recent window against the same term own longer baseline, and returns both the volume ratio and the tone shift with the articles behind them. The framing is fixed and repeated in the response: this is an attention signal and not a judgement. A tone drop means more negative language is being used, not that something happened, and a product recall, a lawsuit and a critical opinion piece produce the same deflection.
https://research.halowerk.com/v1/controversy-pulse- Price
- $0.006
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 128 ms
- 197 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 3 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
POST https://research.halowerk.com/v1/controversy-pulse
Each call costs $0.006 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://research.halowerk.com/v1/controversy-pulse
content-type: application/json
{
"baseline": "1w",
"include_articles": false,
"organisation": "Volkswagen",
"window": "1d"
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
baseline | string | No | Default: "8w". |
include_articles | boolean | No | Default: true. |
organisation | string | Yes | |
window | string | No | Default: "7d". |
Example response
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Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.006.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://research.halowerk.com/v1/controversy-pulse' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"baseline":"1w","include_articles":false,"organisation":"Volkswagen","window":"1d"}'
# 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://research.halowerk.com/v1/controversy-pulse' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"baseline":"1w","include_articles":false,"organisation":"Volkswagen","window":"1d"}' \
| 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 $0.006 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.006" });
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 $0.006 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fresearch.halowerk.com%2Fv1%2Fcontroversy-pulse&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://research.halowerk.com/v1/controversy-pulse", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"baseline": "1w",
"include_articles": false,
"organisation": "Volkswagen",
"window": "1d"
}),
});
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 $0.006 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.006"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.post(
"https://research.halowerk.com/v1/controversy-pulse",
json={
"baseline": "1w",
"include_articles": False,
"organisation": "Volkswagen",
"window": "1d",
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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