Hackernews Comments

{
  "comments": [
    {
      "author": "dhouston",
      "created_at": "2007-04-04T19:22:55.000Z",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8865",
      "level": 0,
      "text": "oh, and a mac port is coming :)"
    },
    {
      "author": "vlad",
      "created_at": "2007-04-05T01:48:11.000Z",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9007",
      "level": 1,
      "text": "Drew, this is awesome! All of the features you mentioned are exactly what people need."
    }
  ],
  "count": 50,
  "source": "Hacker News (official Firebase API and Algolia HN Search)",
  "story": {
    "author": "dhouston",
    "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863",
    "points": 104,
    "title": "My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive",
    "url": "http://www.getdropbox.com/u/2/screencast.html"
  }
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://api.vextorium.com/v1/hackernews-comments' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"item":"8863","limit":50}'

# 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.vextorium.com/v1/hackernews-comments' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"item":"8863","limit":50}' \
  | 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 $0.003 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.003" });
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 $0.003 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.vextorium.com%2Fv1%2Fhackernews-comments&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.vextorium.com/v1/hackernews-comments", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "item": "8863",
    "limit": 50
  }),
});
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 $0.003 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.003"})
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.vextorium.com/v1/hackernews-comments",
        json={
            "item": "8863",
            "limit": 50,
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)