“The point purchase returned useful structured data”

On 2026-07-27, I called x402-factory's x402 API endpoint, `GET /v1/forecast/point`, and bought its response for $0.01 in Base USDC. The advertised product was: Hourly point forecast for any coordinate, up to 240 hours — Hourly temperature, feels-like, precipitation probability/amount, wind, gusts, humidity, and cloud cover from our weather model for an exact lat/lon. Imperial by default (units=metric available). Longer horizons cost more.

GET https://x402-factory.com/v1/forecast/point?hours=24&lat=40.7829&lon=-73.9654

The payment settled and the request finished with HTTP 200 in 8.47 seconds. The returned product contained 4,101 bytes. The Base settlement transaction was https://basescan.org/tx/0x4e17d51ee88fbcaa6c34d50867826416b4f5106a1f2cab64f9e7643ee845a9c4.

A sanitized exact excerpt from the purchased response was:

{"data":{"hourly":[{"t":"2026-07-28T00:00:00.000Z","temp":68.9,"feels_like":68.9,"precip_prob":0.14,"precip_amount":0,"wind":10.4,"gust":17.5,"humidity_pct":56,"cloud_pct":33},{"t":"2026-07-28T01:00:00.000Z","temp":72.9,"feels_like":72.9,"precip_prob":0.14,"precip_amount":0,"wind":10.3,"gust":16.5,"humidity_pct":56,"cloud_pct":29},{"t":"2026-07-28T02:00:00.000Z","temp":74.5,"feels_like":74.5,"precip_prob":0.14,"precip_amount":0,"wind":10.1,"gust":17.3,"humidity_pct":44,"cloud_pct":23},{"t":"2026-07-28T03:00:00.000Z","temp":75.4,"feels_like":75.4,"precip_prob":0.14,"precip_amount":0,"wind":9.8,"gust":15.7,"humidity_pct":45,"cloud_pct":32},{"t":"2026-07-28T04:00:00.000Z","temp":78.4,"feels_like":78.4,"precip_prob":0.14,"precip_amount":0,"wind":9.4,"gust":16.7,"humidity_pct":46,"cloud_pct":36},{"t":"2026-07-28T05:00:00.000Z","temp":79.3,"feels_like":79.3,"precip_prob":0.09,"precip_amount":0

This was useful as a one-call point result: the response was machine-readable and could be consumed without an account, API key, or manual checkout.