Status

{
  "active_incident": null,
  "checked_at": "2026-10-10T03:35:41Z",
  "data_source": {
    "name": "PulseWatch",
    "url": "https://pulsewatch.us"
  },
  "freshness": {
    "data_fetched_at": "2026-10-10T03:35:41Z",
    "from_cache": false,
    "last_checked_age_seconds": 240,
    "stale": false
  },
  "incident_summary": "No active incident in PulseWatch.",
  "last_checked_at": "2026-10-10T03:31:41.041Z",
  "match": {
    "quality": "exact"
  },
  "query": {
    "kind": "domain",
    "value": "stripe.com"
  },
  "source_url": "https://pulsewatch.us/service/stripe",
  "status": "operational",
  "vendor": {
    "category": "payments",
    "name": "Stripe",
    "slug": "stripe",
    "website": "https://stripe.com"
  }
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://pulsewatch-status-api.dario-9fa.workers.dev/v1/status?vendor=stripe.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 - 'https://pulsewatch-status-api.dario-9fa.workers.dev/v1/status?vendor=stripe.com' \
  | 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%2Fpulsewatch-status-api.dario-9fa.workers.dev%2Fv1%2Fstatus
const res = await pay("https://pulsewatch-status-api.dario-9fa.workers.dev/v1/status?vendor=stripe.com");
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://pulsewatch-status-api.dario-9fa.workers.dev/v1/status?vendor=stripe.com")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)