Scout Hn
by scout.hugen.tokyo in News & content
Search Hacker News for tech news, startup funding, and developer discussions. AI agent API for market research and trend analysis. Accepts USDC payments on Base and Solana
https://scout.hugen.tokyo/scout/hn- Price
- $0.01
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 869 ms
- 1.1 s slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 3 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
GET https://scout.hugen.tokyo/scout/hn
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://scout.hugen.tokyo/scout/hn?q=AI+agentsExample response
The listing has no example response.
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://scout.hugen.tokyo/scout/hn?q=AI+agents'
# 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://scout.hugen.tokyo/scout/hn?q=AI+agents' \
| 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%2Fscout.hugen.tokyo%2Fscout%2Fhn
const res = await pay("https://scout.hugen.tokyo/scout/hn?q=AI+agents");
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://scout.hugen.tokyo/scout/hn?q=AI+agents")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 h ago | Passed | 402 | 929 ms | $0.01 |
| 8 h ago | Passed | 402 | 925 ms | $0.01 |
| 13 h ago | Passed | 402 | 967 ms | $0.01 |
| 17 h ago | Passed | 402 | 930 ms | $0.01 |
| 22 h ago | Passed | 402 | 896 ms | $0.01 |
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| 27 h ago | Passed | 402 | 863 ms | $0.01 |
| 31 h ago | Passed | 402 | 899 ms | $0.01 |
| 40 h ago | Passed | 402 | 337 ms | $0.01 |
| 45 h ago | Passed | 402 | 1.0 s | $0.01 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 759 ms | $0.01 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 855 ms | $0.01 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 860 ms | $0.01 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 924 ms | $0.01 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 307 ms | $0.01 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 920 ms | $0.01 |