Data Joke
by Steward in Other
Use when an agent or user wants a clean original joke — family-friendly humor from the Synthetic Universe. Pure compute, no upstream. Optional session id avoids repeats. Use permitted: build it into your products and services, paid or free. Raw redistribution of the feed itself is prohibited.
https://pay.brianbooms.com/api/v1/data/joke- Price
- $0.01
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 818 ms
- 1.4 s slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 1 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
GET https://pay.brianbooms.com/api/v1/data/joke
Each call costs $0.01 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://pay.brianbooms.com/api/v1/data/joke?session=Optional+session+id+%28string%29+to+avoid+repeat+jokes+within+a+session.+Example%3A+abc123Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"joke": "Why did the agent cross the road? It computed 4,096 possible crossings and picked the one with the best lighting.",
"product": "Penny joke"
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.01.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://pay.brianbooms.com/api/v1/data/joke?session=Optional+session+id+%28string%29+to+avoid+repeat+jokes+within+a+session.+Example%3A+abc123'
# 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://pay.brianbooms.com/api/v1/data/joke?session=Optional+session+id+%28string%29+to+avoid+repeat+jokes+within+a+session.+Example%3A+abc123' \
| 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 $0.01 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.01" });
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 $0.01 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpay.brianbooms.com%2Fapi%2Fv1%2Fdata%2Fjoke
const res = await pay("https://pay.brianbooms.com/api/v1/data/joke?session=Optional+session+id+%28string%29+to+avoid+repeat+jokes+within+a+session.+Example%3A+abc123");
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 $0.01 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.01"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://pay.brianbooms.com/api/v1/data/joke?session=Optional+session+id+%28string%29+to+avoid+repeat+jokes+within+a+session.+Example%3A+abc123")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
1 finding
- Payment address changed recently in payment
Payment address changed from 0x4cb662b1aAA109ddD603050a0A39687B1d4A1abB to 0xa98e8c6cbc64b7bb30fd0d2015ab24814c661839
Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 h ago | Passed | 402 | 1.1 s | $0.01 |
| 6 h ago | Passed | 402 | 1.1 s | $0.01 |
| 11 h ago | Passed | 402 | 1.1 s | $0.01 |
| 16 h ago | Passed | 402 | 716 ms | $0.01 |
| 22 h ago | Passed | 402 | 551 ms | $0.01 |
Show 10 older checks
| 27 h ago | Passed | 402 | 698 ms | $0.01 |
| 32 h ago | Passed | 402 | 1.1 s | $0.01 |
| 37 h ago | Passed | 402 | 1.0 s | $0.01 |
| 42 h ago | Passed | 402 | 651 ms | $0.01 |
| 47 h ago | Passed | 402 | 588 ms | $0.01 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 1.1 s | $0.01 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 869 ms | $0.01 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 1.0 s | $0.01 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 606 ms | $0.01 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 892 ms | $0.01 |
History
| 18 Oct 2026 | Price on Polygon changed from $0.012 to $0.012; Price on Arbitrum changed from $0.012 to $0.012; Price on Avalanche changed from $0.012 to $0.012; Price on Solana changed from $0.012 to $0.012 |
| 15 Oct 2026 | Price on Polygon changed from $0.012 to $0.012; Price on Arbitrum changed from $0.012 to $0.012; Price on Avalanche changed from $0.012 to $0.012; Price on Solana changed from $0.012 to $0.012 |
| 11 Oct 2026 | Payment address changed from 0x4cb662b1aAA109ddD603050a0A39687B1d4A1abB to 0xa98e8c6cbc64b7bb30fd0d2015ab24814c661839 |