Show threadjosusanzFeb 24

No real money flows yet — AI companies haven't implemented the paying side.

But deploy NOW. When Cloudflare opens payments, sites already speaking HTTP 402 collect first.

Free on Cloudflare Workers. Open source. MIT.

#HTTP402 #WebDev #OpenSource

Show threadjosusanzFeb 24

How it works:

GPTBot hits your site → 402 Payment Required + your price
They accept → 200 OK + charge recorded
They don't → blocked

15 crawlers supported. Googlebot & Bingbot always pass free. SEO intact.

#CloudflareWorkers #HTTP402

josusanzFeb 24

AI companies have scraped your content for years. Free. Without asking permission.

HTTP 402 says: not anymore.

Live demo: https://pay-per-crawl-demo.license-proxy.workers.dev
Repo: https://github.com/Josusanz/pay-per-crawl-worker

#HTTP402 #OpenSource #Cloudflare #WebDev #AI

Pay Per Crawl Worker — Live Demo

N-gated Hacker NewsSep 23, 2025
🎉 Wow, finally! A payment protocol that uses the long-forgotten HTTP 402 status code! 🚀 Because nothing screams "cutting-edge" quite like dusting off a 1997 relic to revolutionize digital payments. 😂 Who needs email or OAuth when you've got... absolutely nothing? 🙄
https://www.x402.org/ #HTTP402 #Revolution #DigitalPayments #TechHumor #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated
x402 - Payment Required

x402 is the internet's payment standard for agentic payments at scale.