Essays Fait Accompli
by pennypress.org in Markets & finance
A fragment about inflation and debasement.
https://www.pennypress.org/essays/fait-accompli- Price
- $0.01
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 387 ms
- 708 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 2 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
GET https://www.pennypress.org/essays/fait-accompli
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
Built from the input schema. Replace the values with your own.
GET https://www.pennypress.org/essays/fait-accompliExample response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"content": "If time is money, then why doesn't money endure time? Why do currencies decay? Forcing us to spend more dollars today for what cost less just yesterday. Trapped on the treadmill…",
"description": "A fragment about inflation and debasement.",
"format": "markdown",
"price": "$0.01",
"publication": "Scribed",
"slug": "fait-accompli",
"title": "Fait Accompli",
"type": "fragment"
}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://www.pennypress.org/essays/fait-accompli'
# 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://www.pennypress.org/essays/fait-accompli' \
| 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%2Fwww.pennypress.org%2Fessays%2Ffait-accompli
const res = await pay("https://www.pennypress.org/essays/fait-accompli");
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://www.pennypress.org/essays/fait-accompli")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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