Url Inspect
by Vextorium in Security & trust
Technical inspection of a URL: status, redirects, time to first byte and total time, bytes, compression, content type, cache policy, server, CDN, cookies set, security headers present and all response headers.
POST https://api.vextorium.com/v1/url-inspect
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- Uptime
- 0.0%
- Response time
- - typical, - slowest 5%
- Last check
- 2 h ago: Amount "0.003" is not in atomic token units
- Next check
- any minute now
How to call it
POST https://api.vextorium.com/v1/url-inspect
Each call costs $0.003 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.vextorium.com/v1/url-inspect
content-type: application/json
{
"url": "https://github.com"
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
url | string | Yes |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
Example response, 47 lines
{
"bytes_transferred": 117330,
"cache_control": "max-age=0, private, must-revalidate",
"cdn": null,
"code": 200,
"compression": "gzip",
"content_type": "text/html; charset=utf-8",
"cookies": [
"_gh_sess",
"_octo"
],
"etag": true,
"headers": {
"accept-ranges": "bytes",
"cache-control": "max-age=0, private, must-revalidate",
"content-encoding": "gzip",
"content-language": "en-US",
"content-security-policy": "default-src 'none'; base-uri 'self'; child-src github.githubassets.com github.com/assets-cdn/worker/ github.com/assets/ gist.github.com/assets-cdn/worker/; connect-src 'self' uploads.github.com www.githubstatus.com collector.github.com raw.githubusercontent.com api.github.com github-cloud.s3.amazona…",
"content-type": "text/html; charset=utf-8",
"date": "Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:30:56 GMT",
"etag": "W/\"f5927ebefa94d7b7c704363775d026a9\"",
"referrer-policy": "origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin",
"server": "github.com",
"set-cookie": "_gh_sess=FtpXJflRwzWWLBj5ITkvuGi7%2F3dD0cM4CdYBXQGU9NgjhOFskxjkkzfFm1edKFFzojtmR8BZf%2BU31znZqmyKL54V%2FTF603fhH7QShHG38nZPftF7nviYfq5HkAVkXBml%2BFDu59%2F3y9QT7qY3ev1oyg9U6Fa8D48ptba%2BObanKOLVj7Q8CRvDJ2p837UeUzR1iMCSA2dDwvexx5%2FL%2FKQHDzXYpXHfhZ9kNcQhJ4dNnMyxObA79XphdhFnsU5xSY3bzaqsHyAwwlmVeHTj%2F…",
"strict-transport-security": "max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload",
"transfer-encoding": "chunked",
"vary": "X-PJAX, X-PJAX-Container, Turbo-Visit, Turbo-Frame, X-Requested-With, X-GitHub-Client-Version, Accept-Language, Sec-Fetch-Site,Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With",
"x-content-type-options": "nosniff",
"x-frame-options": "deny",
"x-github-edge-region": "fra",
"x-github-request-id": "711F:6C8A6:14090F4:1331E12:6ABFDC41",
"x-xss-protection": "0"
},
"redirects": 0,
"security_headers": {
"content-security-policy": true,
"permissions-policy": false,
"referrer-policy": true,
"strict-transport-security": true,
"x-content-type-options": true,
"x-frame-options": true
},
"server": "github.com",
"time_to_first_byte_ms": 168,
"total_time_ms": 255,
"url_final": "https://github.com/"
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.003.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://api.vextorium.com/v1/url-inspect' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"url":"https://github.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.vextorium.com/v1/url-inspect' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"url":"https://github.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 $0.003 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.003" });
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 $0.003 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.vextorium.com%2Fv1%2Furl-inspect&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.vextorium.com/v1/url-inspect", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"url": "https://github.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 $0.003 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.003"})
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.vextorium.com/v1/url-inspect",
json={
"url": "https://github.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 h ago | Amount "0.003" is not in atomic token units | 402 | 147 ms | $0.003 |
| 7 h ago | Amount "0.003" is not in atomic token units | 402 | 97 ms | $0.003 |
| 11 h ago | Amount "0.003" is not in atomic token units | 402 | 90 ms | $0.003 |
| 15 h ago | Amount "0.003" is not in atomic token units | 402 | 83 ms | $0.003 |
| 20 h ago | Amount "0.003" is not in atomic token units | 402 | 146 ms | $0.003 |
| 24 h ago | Amount "0.003" is not in atomic token units | 402 | 97 ms | $0.003 |
| 28 h ago | Amount "0.003" is not in atomic token units | 402 | 80 ms | $0.003 |
| 32 h ago | Amount "0.003" is not in atomic token units | 402 | 77 ms | $0.003 |
| 36 h ago | Amount "0.003" is not in atomic token units | 402 | 79 ms | $0.003 |
| 40 h ago | Amount "0.003" is not in atomic token units | 402 | 76 ms | $0.003 |
| 44 h ago | Amount "0.003" is not in atomic token units | 402 | 88 ms | $0.003 |
| 2 days ago | Amount "0.003" is not in atomic token units | 402 | 91 ms | $0.003 |
| 2 days ago | Amount "0.003" is not in atomic token units | 402 | 221 ms | $0.003 |
| 2 days ago | Amount "0.003" is not in atomic token units | 402 | 229 ms | $0.003 |
| 3 days ago | Amount "0.003" is not in atomic token units | 402 | 74 ms | $0.003 |