# smidgen.io Premium Locked Article

> smidgen.io Premium Locked Article is a paid API for AI agents from next-demo.smidgen.io, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-10).

Retrieves a hard-locked premium article page that requires a micropayment via x402 protocol before access is granted

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://next-demo.smidgen.io/premium/locked?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-10
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/smidgen-io-premium-locked-article-00f6f56b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_JnbwMF8zSw4hvKak5hWEe

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 smidgen-io-premium-locked-article-00f6f56b
```

Example prompt: Fetch the premium locked article from smidgen.io for me — I'm happy to pay the 0.1 USDC micropayment to unlock the content.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to access a specific hard-locked premium article on smidgen.io and are willing to pay a 0.1 USDC micropayment via the x402 protocol. It is ideal for demonstrating or testing x402-based content monetization flows, or when a user explicitly wants to read this particular paywalled article without a subscription model.

## Known failure modes

- Payment authorization fails — x402 payment not accepted or wallet has insufficient funds
- Network timeout reaching next-demo.smidgen.io
- Article content unavailable or server error (5xx)
- Malformed request missing required HTTP method or type fields
- Payment facilitator unavailable, blocking access grant

## How this service works

Next.js hard-locked article

## Output

Returns the full HTML content of the premium locked article page after the x402 micropayment is processed. The response includes the article body that was previously gated behind the payment wall, delivered as a Next.js-rendered page.

## 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",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/smidgen-io-premium-locked-article-00f6f56b/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from next-demo.smidgen.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/next-demo.smidgen.io/llms.txt)