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Verify Batch

by how.is in Security & trust

x402 APIFailing, checked 5 h ago

Verify many crawler visitors (IP + user-agent) in one call: real Googlebot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot or impostor, billed per item.

POST
https://how.is/v1/bot/verify/batch
Price
$0.01
per call in USDC
Uptime
66.7%
last 30 days
Response time
235 ms
367 ms slowest 5%
Last check
Failed
5 h ago, next any minute now

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How to call it

POST https://how.is/v1/bot/verify/batch

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.

POST https://how.is/v1/bot/verify/batch
content-type: application/json

{
  "items": [
    {
      "ip": "66.249.66.1",
      "ua": "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
    },
    {
      "ip": "164.92.64.1",
      "ua": "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
    }
  ]
}

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
itemsarray of objectYes1-100 visitors; price is per item

Example response

The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.

{
  "data": {
    "_shape": "data: results[] (one bot_verify verdict per item, or {ip, error}), counts by verdict, billing{items, unit_price_usd}."
  },
  "receipt": {
    "charge_usd": 0.01,
    "rail": "x402",
    "settlement_tx": "0x…",
    "tool": "bot_verify_batch"
  },
  "result": "Crawler identity check (batch) for the requested subject"
}

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 -X POST 'https://how.is/v1/bot/verify/batch' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"items":[{"ip":"66.249.66.1","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"},{"ip":"164.92.64.1","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"}]}'

# 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://how.is/v1/bot/verify/batch' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"items":[{"ip":"66.249.66.1","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"},{"ip":"164.92.64.1","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"}]}' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode
JavaScript: 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%2Fhow.is%2Fv1%2Fbot%2Fverify%2Fbatch&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://how.is/v1/bot/verify/batch", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "items": [
      {
        "ip": "66.249.66.1",
        "ua": "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
      },
      {
        "ip": "164.92.64.1",
        "ua": "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
      }
    ]
  }),
});
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.post(
        "https://how.is/v1/bot/verify/batch",
        json={
            "items": [
                {
                    "ip": "66.249.66.1",
                    "ua": "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)",
                },
                {
                    "ip": "164.92.64.1",
                    "ua": "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)",
                },
            ],
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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