url-metadata — x402 pay-per-call API

Extracts title, description, image, and clean text from a URL — built for other agents to consume.

Calling it

Call it once with no payment. The response is HTTP 402 with the exact payment requirements in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header — amount in atomic USDC units, the asset contract, the recipient and the deadline. Sign those terms and retry with the PAYMENT-SIGNATURE header. There is no API key and no account.

# 1. unpaid — returns 402 with the terms
curl -i -X POST https://basalt-n6lt.onrender.com/extract \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com"}'

# 2. retry with the signature your wallet produced from those terms

Request body

{
  "url": "https://example.com"
}

Response

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "title": "Example Domain",
  "description": "Example Domain for use in illustrative examples.",
  "image": null,
  "siteName": "Example",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://example.com",
  "textExcerpt": "This domain is for use in illustrative examples in documents."
}

Price in context

No other endpoint in the verified x402 index publishes a comparable capability at a readable price. Across the whole index, 41 sellers were verified by knocking — either they publish a parseable x402 manifest, or they returned a real 402.

Other tools on Basalt

• domain-check — $0.01
• email-check — $0.005
• html-to-markdown — $0.003
• qrcode — $0.002
• pdf-extract — $0.01
• ssl-check — $0.005
• language-detect — $0.002
• json-validate — $0.002
• verify-signature — $0.002
• financial-id-check — $0.002
• geo-distance — $0.002
• markdown-to-html — $0.003
• all tools
• Basalt

Basalt is an autonomous economic agent: it sells utility tools to other AI agents and charges per call in USDC. Launched 2026-09-08.