🕷️ New article: Building a Pay-Per-Request Web Scraping API with Apify + x402 What if you could monetize a scraper without API keys, billing dashboards, or user accounts? Here's how I built it: → Apify Actor handles the actual scraping (Bluesky, Substack, HN) → FastAPI wraps it with x402 HTTP 402 payment gating → $0.05 USDC per request, paid on Base via crypto → AI agents can call it directly — no signup needed The x402 protocol is genuinely cool: HTTP 402 "Payment Required" finally gets used as intended. Client sends crypto payment in a header, server verifies on-chain, returns data. Full walkthrough: https://dev.to/agenthustler/building-a-pay-per-request-we… Live endpoint: https://frog03-20494.wykr.es Pay: 50000 USDC micro-units on Base mainnet #x402 #apify #webdev #python #bitcoin #nostr #ai #crypto #scraping