Lexicon Snapshot
by pennypress.org in AI models & inference
Versioned JSON snapshot of every author-defined term in the Penny Press Lexicon: term, part of speech, definition, verbatim usage example, and the essays where it appears. The definitions themselves are delivered after payment.
https://www.pennypress.org/lexicon/snapshot- Price
- $0.25
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 376 ms
- 784 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/lexicon/snapshot
Each call costs $0.25 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/lexicon/snapshotExample response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"lexicon": "The Penny Press Lexicon",
"term_count": 39,
"terms": [
{
"term": "(delivered after payment)"
}
],
"version": "1.0.0"
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.25.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://www.pennypress.org/lexicon/snapshot'
# 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/lexicon/snapshot' \
| 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 $0.25 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.25" });
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 $0.25 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pennypress.org%2Flexicon%2Fsnapshot
const res = await pay("https://www.pennypress.org/lexicon/snapshot");
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 $0.25 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.25"})
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/lexicon/snapshot")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 h ago | Passed | 402 | 481 ms | $0.25 |
| 6 h ago | Passed | 402 | 388 ms | $0.25 |
| 11 h ago | Passed | 402 | 777 ms | $0.25 |
| 16 h ago | Passed | 402 | 346 ms | $0.25 |
| 20 h ago | Passed | 402 | 405 ms | $0.25 |
Show 10 older checks
| 25 h ago | Passed | 402 | 355 ms | $0.25 |
| 29 h ago | Passed | 402 | 533 ms | $0.25 |
| 33 h ago | Passed | 402 | 346 ms | $0.25 |
| 37 h ago | Passed | 402 | 659 ms | $0.25 |
| 42 h ago | Passed | 402 | 452 ms | $0.25 |
| 46 h ago | Passed | 402 | 371 ms | $0.25 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 349 ms | $0.25 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 341 ms | $0.25 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 347 ms | $0.25 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 656 ms | $0.25 |