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Read

by AgentReader in Search & web

x402 APIPassing, checked 3 h ago

Scrape any public web page and get back the main article as clean, LLM-ready markdown. Fetches the URL, strips nav, ads, cookie banners and footers with Readability, and returns JSON: title, byline, site name, publish date, excerpt, language, word count and the markdown body. The cheap way to feed real page content to an agent without burning tokens on raw HTML. Static-HTML extraction (no JS rendering) - use /screenshot when you need a rendered browser view.

GET https://agentreader.dev/read

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Uptime
100%
Response time
636 ms typical, 889 ms slowest 5%
Last check
3 h ago
Next check
any minute now

How to call it

GET https://agentreader.dev/read

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.

GET https://agentreader.dev/read?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHTTP_402

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
urlstringYesAbsolute http(s) URL of the page to read

Example response

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

{
  "byline": null,
  "excerpt": "HTTP 402 Payment Required is a client error response...",
  "lang": "en",
  "markdown": "# HTTP 402\n\nThe HTTP 402 Payment Required client error...",
  "publishedTime": null,
  "siteName": "Wikipedia",
  "title": "HTTP 402",
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_402",
  "wordCount": 512
}

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 'https://agentreader.dev/read?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHTTP_402'

# 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://agentreader.dev/read?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHTTP_402' \
  | 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 $0.01 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%2Fagentreader.dev%2Fread
const res = await pay("https://agentreader.dev/read?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHTTP_402");
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.get("https://agentreader.dev/read?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHTTP_402")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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