Locus Workplace Employment Context
by api.locus.report in Weather & location
Census LODES workplace jobs and broad industry sectors within a radius for commercial site research. Annual block-level aggregates, with no worker demographics; not shoppers, visits, foot traffic, sales, demand, or a forecast. Charge-free when a state snapshot is missing, stale, unavailable, or no blocks fall in radius.
https://api.locus.report/api/locus-workplace-employment-context- Price
- $0.01
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 320 ms
- 2.9 s slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 4 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
How to call it
POST https://api.locus.report/api/locus-workplace-employment-context
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.
POST https://api.locus.report/api/locus-workplace-employment-context
content-type: application/json
{
"address": "1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601"
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
address | string | No | |
industrySectors | array of string | No | |
latitude | number | No | |
longitude | number | No | |
radiusMeters | integer | No |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
Example response, 36 lines
{
"caveats": [
"Annual workplace-area counts only; jobs are not shoppers, visits, foot traffic, sales, demand, or a forecast.",
"Example artifact; not live data."
],
"employment": {
"candidateBlocksScanned": 12,
"jobsTotal": 4210,
"sectors": [
{
"code": "S000",
"jobs": 4210,
"label": "All sectors"
}
],
"sourceBlocksIncluded": 12
},
"geography": {
"method": "block_centroid_within_radius",
"note": "Includes workplace blocks whose published centroid falls within the requested radius."
},
"ok": true,
"point": {
"latitude": 35.9132,
"longitude": -79.0558
},
"provenance": {
"recordLocator": "37 WAC S000 JT00 2022; aggregated w_geocode rows whose LODES xwalk internal point falls within the radius",
"sourceName": "Census LODES Workplace Area Characteristics",
"sourcePage": "https://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/lodes/",
"sourceYear": 2022
},
"radiusMeters": 800,
"stateFips": "37",
"status": "answered_with_data"
}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 -X POST 'https://api.locus.report/api/locus-workplace-employment-context' \
-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-workplace-employment-context' \
-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 --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%2Fapi.locus.report%2Fapi%2Flocus-workplace-employment-context&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.locus.report/api/locus-workplace-employment-context", {
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());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.post(
"https://api.locus.report/api/locus-workplace-employment-context",
json={
"address": "1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601",
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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