Verify Batch
by how.is in Security & trust
Verify many crawler visitors (IP + user-agent) in one call: real Googlebot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot or impostor, billed per item.
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
Reliability
Latest check failed 5 h ago: Served content without asking for payment
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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
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
items | array of object | Yes | 1-100 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 --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 $0.01 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)Security scan
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 h ago | Served content without asking for payment | 200 | 320 ms | - |
| 10 h ago | Served content without asking for payment | 200 | 394 ms | - |
| 16 h ago | Passed | 402 | 298 ms | $0.01 |
| 21 h ago | Passed | 402 | 332 ms | $0.01 |
| 27 h ago | Served content without asking for payment | 200 | 449 ms | - |
Show 10 older checks
| 35 h ago | Passed | 402 | 348 ms | $0.01 |
| 45 h ago | Served content without asking for payment | 200 | 317 ms | - |
| 2 days ago | Served content without asking for payment | 200 | 451 ms | - |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 247 ms | $0.01 |
| 3 days ago | Served content without asking for payment | 200 | 1.2 s | - |
| 3 days ago | Served content without asking for payment | 200 | 395 ms | - |
| 4 days ago | Passed | 402 | 348 ms | $0.01 |
| 4 days ago | Served content without asking for payment | 200 | 399 ms | - |
| 4 days ago | Served content without asking for payment | 200 | 580 ms | - |
| 5 days ago | Passed | 402 | 210 ms | $0.01 |