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Ref Check

by CitePulse in Security & trust

x402 APIFailing, checked 8 h ago

Bibliography verification for AI research agents — POST up to 20 citations (DOIs or free-text references) and get a per-reference verdict: exists/not-found, retracted/withdrawn (Crossref + Retraction Watch + OpenAlex), and title/author/year mismatches against a real record. Built for agents auditing LLM-generated bibliographies before a citation ships.

GET
https://citepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/ref-check
Price
$0.02
per call in USDC
Uptime
0.0%
last 30 days
Response time
-
no timed checks yet
Last check
Failed
8 h ago, next any minute now

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How to call it

GET https://citepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/ref-check

Each call costs $0.02 in USDC on Polygon, 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://citepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/ref-check

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
citationsstringNoComma-separated DOIs/free-text refs (GET), or JSON array in the body (POST) — up to 20 items. Each item can be a plain string (DOI or a full reference string) or an object {doi, title, authors, year} for stricter mismatch checking.

Example response

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

{
  "checked": 3,
  "not_found": 1,
  "results": [
    {
      "confidence": 0.98,
      "input": "10.1016/S0140-6736(97)11096-0",
      "is_retracted": true,
      "retraction": [
        {
          "date": "2010-02-06",
          "notice_doi": "10.1016/s0140-6736(10)60175-4",
          "source": "retraction-watch",
          "type": "retraction"
        }
      ],
      "verdict": "retracted"
    }
  ],
  "retracted": 1,
  "verified": 1
}

Call it from code

The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.02.

curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://citepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/ref-check'

# 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://citepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/ref-check' \
  | 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 $0.02 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.02" });
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 $0.02 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitepulse.theaslangroupllc.com%2Fapi%2Fref-check
const res = await pay("https://citepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/ref-check");
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 $0.02 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.02"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://citepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/ref-check")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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