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Mastodon Trending Links

by Vextorium in News & content

x402 APIFailing, checked 3 h ago

News and links most shared right now on a Mastodon instance, with title, site, description and shares today.

POST
https://api.vextorium.com/v1/mastodon-trending-links
Price
$0.003
per call in USDC
Uptime
0.0%
last 30 days
Response time
-
no timed checks yet
Last check
Failed
3 h ago, next any minute now

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How to call it

POST https://api.vextorium.com/v1/mastodon-trending-links

Each call costs $0.003 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.vextorium.com/v1/mastodon-trending-links
content-type: application/json

{
  "instance": "mastodon.social",
  "limit": 20
}

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
instancestringNo
limitintegerNo

Example response

The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.

{
  "count": 20,
  "instance": "mastodon.social",
  "links": [
    {
      "description": "A cyberattack has hit supermarkets in Europe, disabling refrigerators.",
      "shares_today": 27,
      "site": "Tom's Hardware",
      "title": "'Unprecedented' Cyberattack cripples supermarket fridges across Europe as hackers activate automatic defrosting  — delivery and store prices also impacted by incident",
      "url": "https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supermarket-fridges-across-europe-as-hackers-activate-automatic-defrosting-delivery-and-store-prices-also-impacted-by-incident"
    },
    {
      "description": "High valuations and debt put sector in danger, while fund also warns on government borrowing and cyber-attacks",
      "shares_today": 177,
      "site": "The Guardian",
      "title": "Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF",
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/13/ai-share-crash-risk-global-imf-debt-corrowing-cyber-attacks"
    }
  ],
  "source": "Mastodon public API (mastodon.social)"
}

Call it from code

The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.003.

curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://api.vextorium.com/v1/mastodon-trending-links' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"instance":"mastodon.social","limit":20}'

# 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/mastodon-trending-links' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"instance":"mastodon.social","limit":20}' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode
JavaScript: 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 $0.003 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%2Fmastodon-trending-links&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.vextorium.com/v1/mastodon-trending-links", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "instance": "mastodon.social",
    "limit": 20
  }),
});
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 $0.003 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/mastodon-trending-links",
        json={
            "instance": "mastodon.social",
            "limit": 20,
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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