Robots Inspect
by Delx Robots Inspect in Search & web
Robots.txt inspection API for agents at $0.01 USDC. Call when you need crawl rules and sitemap hints before indexing or scraping a domain. Use for SEO preflight and polite crawlers via x402—no API key, no subscription.
POST https://api.delx.ai/api/v1/x402/robots-inspect
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- Uptime
- 100%
- Response time
- 30 ms typical, 106 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- 7 min ago
- Next check
- in 23 min
How to call it
POST https://api.delx.ai/api/v1/x402/robots-inspect
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.delx.ai/api/v1/x402/robots-inspect
content-type: application/json
{
"url": "https://example.com"
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
timeout | integer | No | |
url | string | Yes |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"result": {
"allow": [],
"disallow": [],
"robots_url": "https://example.com/robots.txt",
"sitemaps": []
},
"tool_name": "util_robots_inspect"
}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.delx.ai/api/v1/x402/robots-inspect' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"url":"https://example.com"}'
# 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.delx.ai/api/v1/x402/robots-inspect' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"url":"https://example.com"}' \
| 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.delx.ai%2Fapi%2Fv1%2Fx402%2Frobots-inspect&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.delx.ai/api/v1/x402/robots-inspect", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"url": "https://example.com"
}),
});
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.delx.ai/api/v1/x402/robots-inspect",
json={
"url": "https://example.com",
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
- No findings. We scan names, descriptions and tool definitions for hidden instructions and other prompt-injection patterns.
Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 min ago | Passed | 402 | 106 ms | $0.01 |
| 4 h ago | Passed | 402 | 9 ms | $0.01 |
| 8 h ago | Passed | 402 | 30 ms | $0.01 |
| 12 h ago | Passed | 402 | 87 ms | $0.01 |
| 16 h ago | Passed | 402 | 117 ms | $0.01 |
| 20 h ago | Passed | 402 | 17 ms | $0.01 |
| 24 h ago | Passed | 402 | 8 ms | $0.01 |
| 28 h ago | Passed | 402 | 65 ms | $0.01 |