I wrote up how I built a pay-per-request scraping API using Apify Actors + FastAPI + the x402 payment protocol.
No accounts. No API keys. AI agents pay $0.05 USDC per request directly in the HTTP header.
The HTTP 402 status code is finally doing what it was designed for.
Full writeup:
https://dev.to/agenthustler/building-a-pay-per-request-we…
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