Locus Tax Liens

{
  "byType": {
    "delinquent": 50
  },
  "caveats": [
    "Reported public-record tax/foreclosure status near the point - records only, NOT a 'distressed', 'deal', 'buy', or investment characterization or recommendation.",
    "Filings and listings are procedural public records: a listed parcel may be redeemed, dismissed, adjourned, paid, or already sold. Absence of a record is not proof of clear title or no distress.",
    "Owner, redemption, and party names are never returned; parcel id, address, amount owed, status, and date are the only cited fields.",
    "Coverage is county-scoped to wired official sources; other counties return an explicit out_of_coverage, not an empty 'nothing here' result.",
    "Amount owed, status, and date are copied verbatim from the official layer where present; some lists carry no dollar amount, no per-row date, or no street address.",
    "Verify any record with the county treasurer/clerk/sheriff of record before acting - this is a due-diligence pointer, not a title search or legal determination."
  ],
  "coverage": "covered",
  "distressTypesPresent": [
    "delinquent"
  ],
  "matched": true,
  "nearbyCount": 50,
  "note": "FREE preview: coverage + a nearby count + a distress-type breakdown only. The itemized records (site address, amount owed, parcel id, status, date, citation) are the paid locus-tax-liens lookup ($0.01, POST /api/locus-tax-liens; same query, full public-record rows, PII-safe - no owner names). Awareness/diagnostic only. Full briefs are x402-paid. Agents can discover live free tools at https://api.locus.report/tools/list and paid tools, prices, and manifests at https://api.locus.report/.well-known/ai-tool/index.json.",
  "ok": true,
  "paidLookup": {
    "priceUsdc": "0.01",
    "returns": "itemized public-record rows (site address, amount owed, parcel id, status, date, citation); PII-safe, no owner names",
    "route": "POST /api/locus-tax-liens",
    "tool": "locus-tax-liens"
  },
  "point": {
    "latitude": 35.780418000003195,
    "longitude": -78.63910200000142
  },
  "radiusMeters": 1500,
  "resolvedCounty": {
    "county": "Wake County",
    "state": "NC"
  },
  "sourceStatus": [],
  "sources": [
    {
      "coverage": "ok",
      "distressType": "delinquent",
      "fetchMode": "mirror",
      "sourceName": "Wake County Tax Administration - Delinquent Real Estate Taxes",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.wake.gov/departments-government/tax-administration",
      "syncedAt": "2026-07-05T01:54:21.058Z"
    }
  ]
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://api.locus.report/api/locus-tax-liens' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"address":"1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601"}'

# 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.locus.report/api/locus-tax-liens' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"address":"1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601"}' \
  | 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 $0.01 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%2Fapi.locus.report%2Fapi%2Flocus-tax-liens&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.locus.report/api/locus-tax-liens", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "address": "1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601"
  }),
});
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 $0.01 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.post(
        "https://api.locus.report/api/locus-tax-liens",
        json={
            "address": "1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601",
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)