The Imagined Life Section
by mahastrategies.com in Search & web
Read one supported section of The Imagined Life as machine-readable licensed prose with edition and section identity. For agents researching this specific book. Not the complete edition, a general book search or permission to redistribute the work.
POST https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/books/the-imagined-life/section
Last 30 days
- Uptime
- 100%
- Response time
- 136 ms typical, 233 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- 40 min ago
- Next check
- any minute now
How to call it
POST https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/books/the-imagined-life/section
Each call costs $0.025 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://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/books/the-imagined-life/section
content-type: application/json
{
"sectionId": "introduction"
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
sectionId | string | Yes | One of: introduction, what-happens-when-you-sleep, why-we-dream, the-hardest-thing-to-study, two-engines-one-trick, the-dreamer-at-the-controls, when-the-machinery-fails, are-dreams-computation, the-quantum-question, the-machines-that-dream, the-waking-dream, steering-the-simulator. |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
Example response, 38 lines
{
"book": {
"author": "Mayone Maha Rajan",
"id": "the-imagined-life",
"publicEditionUrl": "https://www.mahastrategies.com/books/the-imagined-life",
"sectionCount": 14,
"subtitle": "Living Inside a Dreaming Brain",
"title": "The Imagined Life"
},
"boundaries": {
"editorialAnalysisIncluded": false,
"factualCertificationIncluded": false,
"licenseTransferIncluded": false,
"note": "Payment purchases structured delivery and an integrity receipt; …",
"publicWebEditionRemainsFree": true,
"purchaseUnit": "one deterministic machine-readable section retrieval"
},
"offerId": "book-section-the-imagined-life",
"receipt": {
"canonicalization": "sorted-key canonical JSON with NFC-normalized strings",
"contentSha256": "sha256:3e94ab6779c1792187216f5ecdc4568881071c893dd43659ee4990d86…",
"receiptSha256": "sha256:21608d698ddc0e2c5059c8ea1bd6030c879efb020a5a2028757caec07…",
"requestSha256": "sha256:199da6f9a1eaa7d4ce1fad3733d83d5bc00bd92c7a5b02d0b6a856813…",
"responseSha256": "sha256:ba22f1ee1a76ec96a5842e43a2408de2e6c2eb5522855d306141d75c4…",
"version": "maha-machine-book-receipt/0.1"
},
"section": {
"content": "# Introduction: The Faculty of the Possible\n\nThere is a moment, …",
"contentSha256": "sha256:3e94ab6779c1792187216f5ecdc4568881071c893dd43659ee4990d86…",
"id": "introduction",
"index": 0,
"mediaType": "text/markdown; charset=utf-8",
"title": "Introduction: The Faculty of the Possible",
"utf8Bytes": 11751,
"wordCount": 2124
},
"version": "maha-machine-book-section/0.1"
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.025.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/books/the-imagined-life/section' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"sectionId":"introduction"}'
# 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://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/books/the-imagined-life/section' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"sectionId":"introduction"}' \
| 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 $0.025 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.025" });
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 $0.025 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mahastrategies.com%2Fapi%2Fv1%2Fbooks%2Fthe-imagined-life%2Fsection&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/books/the-imagined-life/section", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"sectionId": "introduction"
}),
});
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 $0.025 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.025"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.post(
"https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/books/the-imagined-life/section",
json={
"sectionId": "introduction",
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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