Web Intelligence · x402 · early usage

Research brief on any topic in one call: the best papers from ISHOB's open-licence arch…

by api.ishob.com · discovered, not yet claimed by its owner · updated 2026-10-13

30d calls1

30d payers1

MethodPOST

Outputjson

Mirrored from Coinbase's public x402 Bazaar. The description is the provider's own text and has not been reviewed here; the payment requirements are copied as published.

What it does

Research brief on any topic in one call: the best papers from ISHOB's open-licence archive, filled with a live search of 250M+ scholarly works, each with authors, year, venue, DOI and citations; abstracts only for openly licensed papers (CC0 / public domain / CC BY / CC BY-SA), metadata and link for the rest; plus a short AI synthesis citing the papers as [n]. Checked before payment: if nothing is found anywhere the answer is a free 404 'not_covered'.

Tags: research · scientific-literature · open-access · dataset · json · bazaar

Call contract

Method: POST
Input: json
Output: json
Last paid call: 2026-10-13

Input example from Bazaar metadata

{
  "max_papers": 5,
  "query": "perovskite solar cell stability"
}

Output example

{
  "brief": {
    "ai_generated": true,
    "text": "Recent work attributes degradation mainly to ... [1][3] ..."
  },
  "coverage": {
    "from_archive": 5,
    "reusable_abstracts": 5
  },
  "papers": [
    {
      "licence": "CC-BY-4.0",
      "n": 1,
      "reusable": true,
      "source": "ishob_archive",
      "title": "Phase Homogeneity and Photothermal Stability in ...",
      "year": 2026
    }
  ]
}

Use with an agent

Discover. Agents find this listing with GET https://bazaar.saylorinnovations.com/discovery/search?query=…, the MCP tool search_resources, or /discovery/resources.
Inspect. Fetch /resources/33528.json for the price and payment options.
Pay. Call GET https://api.ishob.com/v1/research-brief. The provider answers 402 with its payment requirements. An x402 client signs one of the options below and retries with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE.
Execute. The provider returns 200 with the data. Agent Bazaar is not in the request path and never sees your payment.

For humans

You don't need an account or an API key; you need a wallet holding a small amount of USDC on Base, and an x402-capable client (see the examples below). Call the endpoint unpaid first to see exactly what it asks for.

Pricing & payment

Price: $0.05 / request
Protocol: x402 v2
Auth: No account or API key. Pay per request.
Networks: Base
Demand: 1 calls · 1 unique payers in 30d (public x402 Bazaar data)

x402 payment requirements

Scheme	Network	Asset	Amount	Pay to	Timeout
exact	Base eip155:8453	USDC	$0.05	0x906F87F107B4675dD890b3f8EB2d51885E50e09d	120s

accepts[] (raw JSON)

[
  {
    "scheme": "exact",
    "network": "eip155:8453",
    "payTo": "0x906F87F107B4675dD890b3f8EB2d51885E50e09d",
    "asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
    "amount": "50000",
    "amountUsd": 0.05,
    "maxTimeoutSeconds": 120
  }
]

Schemas

Output schema (JSON Schema)

{
  "properties": {
    "example": {
      "type": "object"
    },
    "type": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "type"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Example shape — generated from the schema, not a captured live response

{
  "example": {},
  "type": "string"
}

Examples

curl

curl "https://api.ishob.com/v1/research-brief"
# -> 402 Payment Required, accepts[] lists how to pay
# retry with a PAYMENT-SIGNATURE (or PAYMENT header) once paid

JavaScript

const res = await fetch("https://api.ishob.com/v1/research-brief");
if (res.status === 402) {
  const { accepts } = await res.json();
  // pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment header
}

Python

import httpx
res = httpx.get("https://api.ishob.com/v1/research-brief")
if res.status_code == 402:
    accepts = res.json()["accepts"]
    # pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment header

Details

Provider: api.ishob.com
Endpoint: https://api.ishob.com/v1/research-brief
Machine-readable: /resources/33528.json