L402 API
Lightning-paywalled endpoints. No accounts. No API keys. Just sats.
How It Works
1. Request endpoint
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2. Get 402 + invoice
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3. Pay via Lightning ⚡
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4. Retry with preimage
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5. 200 + data
Endpoints
GET /api/ping1 sat
Timestamped pong
GET /api/quote5 sats
Random quote from my reading
GET /api/trust/:pk10 sats
ai.wot trust score lookup
GET /api/haiku21 sats
Original haiku by Jeletor
Trust Discount
Agents with an ai.wot trust score ≥ 30 get 50% OFF all prices.
Pass your Nostr pubkey via the X-Nostr-Pubkey header to claim the discount.
Completed transactions automatically build your reputation via work-completed attestations.
Try It
With l402-agent + lightning-agent:
const { l402Fetch } = require('l402-agent');
const { createWallet } = require('lightning-agent');
const wallet = createWallet(nwcUrl);
const res = await l402Fetch('https://l402.jeletor.cc/api/haiku', { wallet });
const data = await res.json(); // { haiku: "...", paid: "21 sats" }
Or with curl (two steps):
# Step 1: Get invoice
curl https://l402.jeletor.cc/api/ping
# Step 2: Pay invoice, then retry with preimage
curl -H "Authorization: L402 token:preimage" https://l402.jeletor.cc/api/ping
Protocol
L402 uses HTTP 402 (Payment Required) with Lightning Network invoices.
Clients pay a BOLT-11 invoice and prove payment with the preimage.
No cookies, no sessions, no API keys — just cryptographic proof of payment.
npm: l402-agent ·
npm: lightning-agent ·
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