# CCC Studios — Image to ASCII Art Converter

> CCC Studios — Image to ASCII Art Converter is a paid API for AI agents from ccc-studios.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.25/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Converts an image (by URL) into ASCII art text, with configurable output width, billed per conversion via x402 micropayments

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://ccc-studios.vercel.app/api/image-to-ascii
- Price: $0.25/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/ccc-studios-image-to-ascii-art-converter-d240b29f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_fSwrrVR6_ft7SPWodrcnr

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 ccc-studios-image-to-ascii-art-converter-d240b29f
```

Example prompt: Can you convert this image into ASCII art for me — use https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Cat03.jpg/320px-Cat03.jpg as the source and make the output 80 characters wide?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to convert a remote image into ASCII art on demand with pay-per-use micropayment pricing. Ideal for creative projects, retro-style outputs, text-based interfaces, or embedding image content in environments that only support plain text.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unreachable image URL returns an error
- Unsupported image format may fail to process
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance prevents conversion
- Width parameter out of acceptable range may be rejected
- Network timeout if source image URL is slow to respond

## How this service works

Convert images and text to ASCII art. Pay per conversion via x402 micropayments on Base.

## Output

Returns an ASCII art representation of the input image as a string of characters, where the visual content of the original image is encoded using printable ASCII characters arranged to approximate the image's tones and shapes, at the requested character width.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "url": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Image URL"
  },
  "width": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "Output width (chars)"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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