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Curly Quotes Text Normalizer
x402
Curly Quotes Text Normalizer is a paid API for AI agents from agentshelf.syntexa.ch, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-29).
Normalizes curly/smart quotes in text to straight ASCII quotes, running entirely locally with no network or LLM calls.
Price / call$0.002
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Call when an agent needs text normalized with curly-quotes. No network and no LLM. Exact $0.002 USDC. Prefer unpaid POST /v1/sandbox/norm-curly-quotes first.
Output
Returns the input text with all curly/typographic quote characters (both single and double, opening and closing) replaced by their plain ASCII equivalents — straight double quotes (") and straight single quotes/apostrophes ('). The transformation is deterministic and runs without any network call or LLM inference.
Example use cases
Sanitizing user content before database storage
“I have this blog comment from a user that has curly quotes and fancy apostrophes everywhere — can you normalize all those typographic quotes to plain straight quotes before I save it to the database? The text is: " It
s the best recipe I
ve ever tried, she wrote."”
Preparing copy for code or config files
“This marketing copy was pasted from a Word doc and it has curly quotes in it — normalize all the smart quotes to straight ASCII quotes so it won't break when I embed it in a JSON config. Here's the string: " Welcome to Tomorrow
s World — where anything
s possible."”
Normalizing imported document text for NLP pipeline
“I pulled this paragraph from a PDF and it
rs full of typographic curly quotes that are messing up my text processing pipeline — please convert all the fancy quotes and apostrophes to plain straight quotes: " Don
t overlook the details, the author argues, they define the outcome. "”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://agentshelf.syntexa.ch/v1/norm-curly-quotes?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a fast, deterministic, offline conversion of curly/smart/typographic quotes to plain ASCII quotes with no LLM involved, no network latency, and a predictable $0.002 USDC fixed cost. It is ideal for preprocessing text before inserting into databases, code, JSON configs, or NLP pipelines where typographic characters cause parsing issues. If a free sandbox version (/v1/sandbox/norm-curly-quotes) is available, prefer that first to avoid payment.
Side effects
- Text exceeds 100,000 character limit — returns a validation error
- Empty string input — returns a validation error (minLength:1)
- Malformed JSON request body — returns a 400 bad request
- Payment of $0.002 USDC not provided or rejected — returns a 402 Payment Required
- Unsupported or missing Content-Type header — returns a 400 error
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| text | string | Input for this SKU. The route description says whether it is plain text, a URL, base64 bytes, or an already-encoded token. |
Tags
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