Sports Standings

{
  "groups": [
    {
      "name": "Eastern Conference",
      "teams": [
        {
          "abbreviation": "CAR",
          "games_behind": "-",
          "games_played": 7,
          "losses": 1,
          "overtime_losses": 1,
          "point_diff": 10,
          "points": 11,
          "points_against": 17,
          "points_for": 27,
          "record": "5-1-1, 11 PTS",
          "seed": 1,
          "streak": "W5",
          "team": "Carolina Hurricanes",
          "ties": null,
          "win_pct": null,
          "wins": 5
        },
        {
          "abbreviation": "NYR",
          "games_behind": "1",
          "games_played": 7,
          "losses": 2,
          "overtime_losses": 0,
          "point_diff": 10,
          "points": 10,
          "points_against": 13,
          "points_for": 23,
          "record": "5-2-0, 10 PTS",
          "seed": 2,
          "streak": "W1",
          "team": "New York Rangers",
          "ties": null,
          "win_pct": null,
          "wins": 5
        },
        {
          "abbreviation": "TB",
          "games_behind": "3",
          "games_played": 5,
          "losses": 1,
          "overtime_losses": 0,
          "point_diff": 4,
          "points": 8,
          "points_against": 12,
          "points_for": 16,
          "record": "4-1-0, 8 PTS",
          "seed": 3,
          "streak": "W4",
          "team": "Tampa Bay Lightning",
          "ties": null,
          "win_pct": null,
          "wins": 4
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Western Conference",
      "teams": [
        {
          "abbreviation": "VGK",
          "games_behind": "-",
          "games_played": 6,
          "losses": 1,
          "overtime_losses": 0,
          "point_diff": 9,
          "points": 10,
          "points_against": 14,
          "points_for": 23,
          "record": "5-1-0, 10 PTS",
          "seed": 1,
          "streak": "W4",
          "team": "Vegas Golden Knights",
          "ties": null,
          "win_pct": null,
          "wins": 5
        },
        {
          "abbreviation": "EDM",
          "games_behind": "1",
          "games_played": 5,
          "losses": 0,
          "overtime_losses": 1,
          "point_diff": 8,
          "points": 9,
          "points_against": 17,
          "points_for": 25,
          "record": "4-0-1, 9 PTS",
          "seed": 2,
          "streak": "W4",
          "team": "Edmonton Oilers",
          "ties": null,
          "win_pct": null,
          "wins": 4
        },
        {
          "abbreviation": "ANA",
          "games_behind": "2",
          "games_played": 5,
          "losses": 1,
          "overtime_losses": 0,
          "point_diff": 5,
          "points": 8,
          "points_against": 13,
          "points_for": 18,
          "record": "4-1-0, 8 PTS",
          "seed": 3,
          "streak": "W2",
          "team": "Anaheim Ducks",
          "ties": null,
          "win_pct": null,
          "wins": 4
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "league": "nhl",
  "note": "groups are conferences or divisions as published by ESPN; ordering is by playoff seed where given",
  "season": 2027,
  "source": "ESPN standings"
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://saylorinnovations.com/api/sports/standings?league=nhl'

# 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://saylorinnovations.com/api/sports/standings?league=nhl' \
  | 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 $0.01 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%2Fsaylorinnovations.com%2Fapi%2Fsports%2Fstandings
const res = await pay("https://saylorinnovations.com/api/sports/standings?league=nhl");
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 $0.01 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://saylorinnovations.com/api/sports/standings?league=nhl")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)