Witness Attest
by pennypress.org in Other
Witness the SHA-256 fingerprint of a literary work: submit a title, content hash, and optional pen name; receive a tamper-evident, hash-chained receipt. Timestamping, not endorsement. We never see the work itself.
https://www.pennypress.org/witness/attest- Price
- $0.05
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 367 ms
- 664 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 1 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
POST https://www.pennypress.org/witness/attest
Each call costs $0.05 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.pennypress.org/witness/attest
content-type: application/json
{
"author_label": "Optional pen name or label (max 80 chars).",
"content_hash": "Hex SHA-256 of the work (required).",
"prev_entry_id": "Optional entry_id of the previous version.",
"work_title": "Title of the work (required, max 200 chars)."
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
author_label | string | No | |
content_hash | string | Yes | |
prev_entry_id | string | No | |
work_title | string | Yes |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"entry_hash": "(sha256 of the canonical entry)",
"entry_id": "lw-000001",
"verify_url": "/witness/verify?hash=...",
"witness": "The Literary Witness"
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.05.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://www.pennypress.org/witness/attest' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"author_label":"Optional pen name or label (max 80 chars).","content_hash":"Hex SHA-256 of the work (required).","prev_entry_id":"Optional entry_id of the previous version.","work_title":"Title of the work (required, max 200 chars)."}'
# 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.pennypress.org/witness/attest' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"author_label":"Optional pen name or label (max 80 chars).","content_hash":"Hex SHA-256 of the work (required).","prev_entry_id":"Optional entry_id of the previous version.","work_title":"Title of the work (required, max 200 chars)."}' \
| 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 $0.05 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.05" });
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 $0.05 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pennypress.org%2Fwitness%2Fattest&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://www.pennypress.org/witness/attest", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"author_label": "Optional pen name or label (max 80 chars).",
"content_hash": "Hex SHA-256 of the work (required).",
"prev_entry_id": "Optional entry_id of the previous version.",
"work_title": "Title of the work (required, max 200 chars)."
}),
});
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 $0.05 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.05"})
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.pennypress.org/witness/attest",
json={
"author_label": "Optional pen name or label (max 80 chars).",
"content_hash": "Hex SHA-256 of the work (required).",
"prev_entry_id": "Optional entry_id of the previous version.",
"work_title": "Title of the work (required, max 200 chars).",
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 h ago | Passed | 402 | 367 ms | $0.05 |
| 6 h ago | Passed | 402 | 410 ms | $0.05 |
| 11 h ago | Passed | 402 | 415 ms | $0.05 |
| 15 h ago | Passed | 402 | 370 ms | $0.05 |
| 20 h ago | Passed | 402 | 383 ms | $0.05 |
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| 24 h ago | Passed | 402 | 347 ms | $0.05 |
| 29 h ago | Passed | 402 | 349 ms | $0.05 |
| 33 h ago | Passed | 402 | 664 ms | $0.05 |
| 37 h ago | Passed | 402 | 392 ms | $0.05 |
| 41 h ago | Passed | 402 | 407 ms | $0.05 |
| 45 h ago | Passed | 402 | 370 ms | $0.05 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 356 ms | $0.05 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 342 ms | $0.05 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 417 ms | $0.05 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 430 ms | $0.05 |