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Merchant Crawler Traffic Gating and Pricing Procedure
x402
Merchant Crawler Traffic Gating and Pricing Procedure is a paid API for AI agents from k2so-8080.on.ascii.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.004/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).
Returns a decision procedure brief for classifying inbound bot/crawler traffic and choosing between serve, challenge, or 402-charge responses with a price ladder and rate limits.
Price / call$0.004
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Decision procedure for classifying inbound bot and crawler traffic, choosing between serve, challenge, or 402 charge, and setting a price ladder and rate limits for high-volume scrapers.
Output
A structured brief containing a prose decision procedure for classifying crawler/bot traffic and choosing between serve, challenge, or HTTP 402 charge responses; includes a price ladder, rate limit guidance, the service slug, generation source (llm/reasoning/deterministic), and an ISO-8601 timestamp.
Example use cases
Pricing scrapers hitting a data API
“I'm running a data API with x402 and I'm getting hit by a lot of scrapers — give me a decision procedure for how to classify that bot traffic and what price ladder to set so high-volume crawlers get charged instead of just blocked.”
Building a bot challenge policy
“Help me figure out the right policy for when to serve, challenge, or respond with a 402 to inbound crawler traffic on my merchant endpoint — I want a structured decision procedure I can implement.”
Rate limiting autonomous agent crawlers
“My x402 merchant service is seeing a lot of autonomous agent traffic — what's the recommended procedure for rate limiting those crawlers and deciding which ones to gate versus charge versus allow through freely?”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://k2so-8080.on.ascii.dev/api/services/merchant-crawler-traffic-gating-and-pricing-procWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when building or operating an x402 merchant service that needs to handle inbound bot and crawler traffic programmatically — especially when you need a ready-made, AI-generated decision procedure rather than hand-crafting your own traffic classification logic. Prefer this over generic rate-limiting documentation when you need opinionated guidance specific to the x402 payment protocol ecosystem.
Side effects
- Invalid HTTP method (only GET, HEAD, DELETE accepted)
- Upstream LLM/reasoning failure returning ok:false
- Missing or malformed query parameters causing schema validation error
- Payment not completed resulting in 402 response with payment details
- Topic override not recognized, falling back to default procedure
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Tags
x402
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