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BasePost Article Reader
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BasePost Article Reader is a paid API for AI agents from basepost.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status down (last checked 2026-09-14).
Fetches the full content of a specific BasePost article by slug, gated behind a micropayment of $0.01 USDC
Price / call$0.01
Success—
StatusDown
How this service works
BasePost by basepost.base.eth: The internet used to be fun. Now every article comes with 47 ads, 12 popups, and a newsletter signup that won't take no for an answer. BasePost brings back the good old days: clean pages, good writing, and you pay a few cents for what you actually want to read.
Output
Returns a JSON object with the full article body in markdown, the article title, slug, teaser, cover image URL, price paid, upload timestamp, and author details including their Base/Ethereum address, username, display name, and profile picture URL.
Example use cases
Example prompt
“Fetch me the BasePost article with slug 'basepost-launches' — I want to read the full content, pay the 0.01 USDC fee in USDC.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://basepost.vercel.app/api/articles/basepost-launchesWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need to retrieve the full content of a specific BasePost article identified by its slug and are willing to make a $0.01 USDC micropayment. Prefer this over general web scraping when the article is hosted on BasePost's decentralized publishing platform and you want structured metadata including author blockchain address and markdown-formatted body.
Side effects
- Invalid or non-existent article slug returns a 404 or error response
- Insufficient payment amount causes payment rejection
- Unsupported payment currency causes payment failure
- Network or Vercel deployment downtime causes 5xx errors
- Malformed request missing required fields returns validation error
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| articleSlugrequired | string | |
| paymentAmountrequired | string | |
| paymentCurrencyrequired | string |
Output
Schema · Response
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| bodyrequired | string | The full article content in markdown format |
| slugrequired | string | URL-friendly identifier for the article |
| titlerequired | string | The article title |
| teaser | string | A short preview of the article |
| imageUrl | string | URL to the article cover image |
| priceUsdrequired | string | The price paid to access this article |
| uploadedAtrequired | string | ISO 8601 timestamp when the article was uploaded |
| authorPfpUrl | string | Author's profile picture URL |
| authorAddressrequired | string | Ethereum/Base address of the author |
| authorUsername | string | Author's username |
| authorDisplayName | string | Author's display name |
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