# Animica Crawl Pass Purchase

> Animica Crawl Pass Purchase is a paid API for AI agents from animica.dev, paid per call via x402, $1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Purchases a time-limited crawl access pass (token) for a specified domain, enabling an agent to crawl pages on that domain within the pass's validity window.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://animica.dev/x402/crawl/pass/100
- Price: $1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/animica-crawl-pass-purchase-c0cc26f9
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_wAAE_lCuckH8Df-tNL00u

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-c0cc26f9 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Buy me a crawl pass for docs.example.com that's valid for 3600 seconds so I can start scraping its pages.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when an agent needs to programmatically purchase time-limited crawl access to a domain that uses the Animica x402 crawl authorization scheme. It is the required first step before crawling pages on any animica-compatible domain that gates access via pay-per-crawl tokens.

## Known failure modes

- Domain does not publish terms at /x402/crawl/{domain} — request rejected
- TTL out of range (< 60 or > 86400) — validation error
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC — 402 not resolved
- Domain string malformed or unreachable — error response
- Pass generation backend unavailable — 5xx error

## How this service works

Buy bulk crawl access to one domain that publishes Paid Crawl terms. $1.000 buys $1.000 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 JSON object containing a crawl pass token (prefixed anmcp_...), the number of requests the pass covers, the per-page pricing rate, and the expiry timestamp of the pass.

## 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-c0cc26f9/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)