🕷️ 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
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