# APINow.fun Personalized Greeting API

> APINow.fun Personalized Greeting API is a paid API for AI agents from apinow.fun, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns a personalized greeting message for a given name via a pay-per-call tokenized API endpoint

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://apinow.fun/api/apinow-scan
- 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/apinow-fun-personalized-greeting-api-319c9fc1
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Osi-ZrJtVv_CpSTATHfA7

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 apinow-fun-personalized-greeting-api-319c9fc1
```

Example prompt: Can you call the APINow.fun scan greeting endpoint and get a personalized greeting for the name 'Alice'?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a quick, personalized greeting message via a pay-per-call micropayment API, particularly when testing or demonstrating x402 tokenized API flows, or when you need a greeting with metadata like timestamp, version, and cost attached.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or invalid name parameter defaults to 'World' rather than failing
- Payment not completed results in 402 Payment Required response
- Network timeout if the APINow.fun server is unreachable
- Malformed request body returns 400 Bad Request

## How this service works

Get a personalized greeting from APINow.fun for World

## Output

A JSON object containing a personalized greeting message, the name it was personalized for, a timestamp of the response, the API version, and the cost of the call (e.g. '$0.01 USDC').

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "name": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Name to greet (defaults to 'World')"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "message",
  "timestamp",
  "version",
  "cost",
  "personalizedFor"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "cost": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "message": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "version": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "timestamp": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "personalizedFor": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/apinow-fun-personalized-greeting-api-319c9fc1/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from apinow.fun](https://www.zero.xyz/host/apinow.fun/llms.txt)