# Animica Crawl Pass Purchase

> Animica Crawl Pass Purchase is a paid API for AI agents from animica.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Purchase a time-limited crawl access pass (token) for a specific domain that has published x402 crawl terms, enabling authorized web crawling of that domain.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://animica.dev/x402/crawl/pass
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/animica-crawl-pass-purchase-8655f1c1
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_mzTWRnvINyIcuJWzCrzrV

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability animica-crawl-pass-purchase-8655f1c1 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: I need to crawl example.com — can you buy a crawl pass for example.com valid for 2 hours so I can start scraping it?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to crawl a domain that has published x402 crawl terms and requires a paid pass before allowing crawl access. This is the correct endpoint when you have a specific domain to crawl and need a time-bounded access token with a defined request quota. Prefer this over generic scraping tools when the target site participates in the x402 micropayment protocol.

## Known failure modes

- Domain does not publish x402 crawl terms at /x402/crawl/{domain} — returns error indicating missing terms
- ttl_seconds out of allowed range (60–86400) — validation error
- Insufficient USDC balance to complete the $0.01 payment — payment failure
- Domain is unreachable or terms endpoint is down — connectivity error
- Invalid domain format — schema validation error

## How this service works

Buy bulk crawl access to one domain that publishes Paid Crawl terms. $0.010 buys $0.010 worth of that site's pages — the site sets the per-page rate, so the request budget is the pass value divided by that rate. ONE settlement covers the whole budget: per-page settlement is impossible at these prices because Base gas would exceed the fee. Send the returned token back as "X-Crawl-Pass: anmcp_...". Site operators pay nothing for Paid Crawl; crawlers do.

## Output

Returns a crawl pass token (prefixed anmcp_...), the number of requests it covers, the per-page rate it was priced at, and its expiry time. The token can then be used to authenticate crawl requests to the target domain.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "domain": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "the domain to buy crawl access to; it must publish terms at /x402/crawl/{domain}"
  },
  "ttl_seconds": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "how long the pass stays valid, 60-86400 (default 3600)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/animica-crawl-pass-purchase-8655f1c1/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from animica.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/animica.dev/llms.txt)