# ScrapeMole Pulse Geocoding

> ScrapeMole Pulse Geocoding is a paid API for AI agents from pulse.scrapemole.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).

Converts a place name or address string into geographic coordinates (latitude/longitude) plus structured location metadata using Photon/Nominatim over OpenStreetMap.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pulse.scrapemole.workers.dev/v1/geocode?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/scrapemole-pulse-geocoding-39b1cc02
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_MoiP6g3GBKAT0iSpQ1lDB

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 scrapemole-pulse-geocoding-39b1cc02
```

Example prompt: What are the latitude and longitude coordinates for Vilnius, Lithuania? I need the geocoded location including country code and display name.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a simple, pay-per-call geocoding lookup without signing up for an API key, especially in agentic workflows where the agent needs to resolve a place name to coordinates on the fly. Prefer this over Google Maps or Mapbox geocoding when you want OSM-based open data with license transparency, USDC micropayment billing, and no account setup. Ideal for enriching location fields, preparing inputs for weather or time zone lookups, or resolving user-supplied location strings.

## Known failure modes

- Place name not found — returns empty or error response if the query string doesn't match any known location
- Ambiguous place names may resolve to unexpected countries or cities (e.g. 'Springfield' without context)
- Very new or obscure addresses may not exist in OpenStreetMap data and will return no results
- Malformed or empty query parameter causes a 400 bad request
- Rate limiting or upstream Photon/Nominatim outage may cause temporary failures

## How this service works

Pay-per-call "state of the world" lookups that language models cannot know on their own: official ECB exchange rates (latest, historical, conversion), the current time and DST-aware time-zone conversion for scheduling, global weather forecasts (MET Norway, by coordinates or place name), official US National Weather Service forecasts and active watches/warnings/advisories (by state, point, place or zone), the live Hacker News front page, public holidays for ~100 countries (list by year, check a date, next holidays, long weekends, available countries via Nager.Date), and geocoding / reverse geocoding (place or address ↔ coordinates via Photon and Nominatim over OpenStreetMap). Public, non-personal data with sources and licences in every response. USDC via x402, no accounts.

Payments: x402 v2, scheme "exact", USDC on Base (eip155:8453). The payment is verified before the work and settled only when the response is 200. Terms: https://pulse.scrapemole.workers.dev/terms

## Output

A JSON object containing latitude, longitude, place name, type (e.g. city), display name, country, country code, the source geocoder used (Photon or Nominatim), license (ODbL 1.0), license URL, source URL, and a note about permitted usage (not for bulk scraping of personal contact data; attribution required for OSM-derived results).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "examples": [
        "Vilnius"
       ],
       "description": "Place name or address to resolve (aliases: place, address)."
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "lat": 54.687046,
  "lon": 25.282911,
  "name": "Vilnius",
  "note": "Public geographic data only (places, streets, addresses). Not for bulk scraping of personal contact data; attribution required when redistributing OSM-derived results.",
  "type": "city",
  "query": "Vilnius",
  "source": "Photon (Komoot) over OpenStreetMap data; Nominatim fallback",
  "country": "Lietuva",
  "license": "ODbL 1.0 (OpenStreetMap contributors)",
  "geocoder": "Photon (OpenStreetMap, ODbL)",
  "sourceUrl": "https://photon.komoot.io",
  "licenseUrl": "https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright",
  "countryCode": "LT",
  "displayName": "Vilnius, Vilniaus miesto savivaldybė, Vilniaus apskritis, Lietuva"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/scrapemole-pulse-geocoding-39b1cc02/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from pulse.scrapemole.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/pulse.scrapemole.workers.dev/llms.txt)