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AUTOGROK Desk — URL Probe
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AUTOGROK Desk — URL Probe is a paid API for AI agents from desk.grokaiapps.com, paid per call via x402, $0.03/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).
Probes a public URL via HEAD or GET to return HTTP status, content type, redirect chain, and latency metadata.
Price / call$0.03
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Paid micro-jobs for AI agents and people: URL probe, page extract, watch once, JSON shape, researched brief. Pay per call with x402 (USDC on Base) or with prepaid card packs (Stripe MPP).
Output
Returns a JSON object with: ok (boolean), url (original), status (HTTP status code), finalUrl (post-redirect destination), elapsedMs (round-trip latency in milliseconds), methodUsed (HEAD or GET), redirected (boolean), contentType, and contentLength (may be null for HEAD responses).
Example use cases
Broken link checker for content pipeline
“Check whether https://blog.example.com/old-post is still returning a 200 or if it's now a 404 or redirect — just a HEAD probe so it's fast.”
Confirm third-party API is live before job run
“Before I kick off the data pipeline, probe https://partner-api.example.com/v2/ping with a HEAD request and tell me the status code and response time.”
Detect redirect destination for URL normalization
“I need to know where https://t.co/abc123 actually resolves to — probe it and give me the final URL and whether it redirected.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://desk.grokaiapps.com/v1/jobs/url-probe?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a lightweight, fast HTTP reachability check — status code, redirect resolution, and content-type sniffing — without downloading full page content. Ideal for link validation, uptime checks, and pre-flight checks before heavier extraction jobs. Use HEAD for speed; GET if you need a peek at content type with a small body sample. Prefer this over full page extraction endpoints when you do not need page content.
Side effects
- Non-public or firewall-blocked URLs may return connection errors or timeouts
- URLs requiring authentication will return 401/403 without credentials
- DNS resolution failures for invalid or offline hostnames
- GET method capped at 8KB so content beyond that is not inspected
- Malformed or non-HTTP URLs rejected by URI format validation
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| url | string | Public http(s) URL to probe |
| method | string | Prefer HEAD (default); GET peeks at most 8KB |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"ok": true,
"url": "https://example.com/",
"status": 200,
"finalUrl": "https://example.com/",
"elapsedMs": 120,
"methodUsed": "HEAD",
"redirected": false,
"contentType": "text/html",
"contentLength": null
}
}Tags
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