News Brief

{
  "as_of": "2026-10-02T13:00:00Z",
  "brief": "• … (https://example.com/story)\n• … (https://another.org/item)",
  "digest": {
    "as_of": "2026-10-02T12:00:00Z",
    "report_url": "https://ioswarm.io/s/…",
    "stories": [
      {
        "headline": "…",
        "link": "https://…",
        "source": "example.com"
      }
    ],
    "title": "Today's news"
  },
  "headlines": [
    {
      "headline": "…",
      "link": "https://…",
      "published": "2026-10-02T12:30:00Z",
      "publisher": "…"
    }
  ],
  "paid": {
    "transaction": "0x…",
    "usd": 0.05
  },
  "usage": {
    "completion_tokens": 300,
    "prompt_tokens": 900
  }
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://ioswarm.io/api/v1/news/brief' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{}'

# 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://ioswarm.io/api/v1/news/brief' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{}' \
  | 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 $0.05 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.05" });
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 $0.05 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fioswarm.io%2Fapi%2Fv1%2Fnews%2Fbrief&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://ioswarm.io/api/v1/news/brief", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({}),
});
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 $0.05 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.05"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.post(
        "https://ioswarm.io/api/v1/news/brief",
        json={},
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)