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io.github.Darkchild88/x402-money-farm

Pay-per-call web extraction: clean text, metadata, links, JSON-LD, change detection. USDC on Base.

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x402 Money Farm — MCP server

Paid web-extraction tools for agents. No account, no API key, no subscription, no signup form: each call settles a fraction of a cent in USDC on Base, per request, and the response arrives only after settlement.

ToolWhat it returnsPrice
farm_catalogEverything below, with live prices and wallet statusfree
farm_clean_textMain article text without nav/ads/boilerplate, text or Markdown$0.02
farm_metadataTitle, description, canonical, OpenGraph, Twitter, icons, dates$0.01
farm_linksAll links, absolutised, deduplicated, internal/external, per-host counts$0.01
farm_jsonldJSON-LD blocks parsed and indexed by schema.org type$0.01
farm_fingerprintNoise-normalised page fingerprint plus a changed/unchanged verdict$0.015

Add it to a client

Claude Desktop — claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "x402-money-farm": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "x402-money-farm-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "X402_PRIVATE_KEY": "0xyour_funded_base_wallet_key",
        "X402_MAX_USD": "1.00"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code:

claude mcp add x402-money-farm \
  --env X402_PRIVATE_KEY=0x... \
  --env X402_MAX_USD=1.00 \
  -- npx -y x402-money-farm-mcp

Any other MCP client works the same way — it is a plain stdio server.

Try it before paying anything

npx -y x402-money-farm-mcp

Then have the agent call farm_catalog. It reports the live prices, whether a wallet is configured and how much has been spent this session. Nothing is billed, and no wallet is needed to see it. If the prices do not suit you, you learned that for free.

Configuration

The server pays from your wallet, one call at a time. Gas is paid by the facilitator, so the wallet needs USDC on Base but no ETH.

VariableDefaultMeaning
X402_PRIVATE_KEY—Your funded Base wallet, 0x + 64 hex characters. Without it the paid tools decline with an explanation and only farm_catalog works.
X402_MAX_USD1.00Hard spend cap for the process. Once reached, every further paid call is refused.
FARM_BASE_URLhttps://x402-money-farm.fly.devThe service to buy from.
X402_NETWORKeip155:8453Base mainnet.

Fund a wallet for this purpose with a few dollars — not your main one. The key sits in a config file on disk; treat it accordingly. The spend cap exists so a looping agent cannot drain even that wallet.

What a call costs, exactly

The price in the table is the whole price. No monthly minimum, no per-seat fee, no metered surprise. The server returns HTTP 402 with the exact amount, your wallet signs that amount, and you get the answer after settlement. A failed call is not billed. Every response carries a _payment block with the amount, the running session total and the paying address, so you can reconcile against the chain yourself.

Why pay-per-call at all

Because the alternative is a signup, a credit card, a minimum plan and a key to rotate — for an agent that wanted the metadata of four URLs. Here the agent decides on its own, pays four cents, and nobody had to create an account.

License

MIT.

Installation

Source-derived launch command. Check the maintainer’s required arguments and credentials before running:

bash
npx -y x402-money-farm-mcp

Set up in your AI client

Merge this template into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json. Keep existing servers. Add any arguments, credentials, and permissions required by the maintainer; this template has not been install-tested.

json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-github-darkchild88-x402-money-farm": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "x402-money-farm-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop completely for changes to take effect. Confirm the server appears connected in the client’s tool list, then try a read-only example from its documentation.

Claude Desktop setup reference

Package

x402-money-farm-mcpnpm

Compatible MCP Clients

io.github.Darkchild88/x402-money-farm works with any MCP-compatible client. Copy the config snippet from the Configuration section above and add it to the file shown for your client, then restart the application.

  • Claude Desktop~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.jsonRestart Claude Desktop completely for changes to take effect.
  • Cursor~/.cursor/mcp.jsonRestart Cursor for changes to take effect.
  • VS Code.vscode/mcp.jsonReload VS Code window for changes to take effect.
  • Windsurf~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.jsonRestart Windsurf for changes to take effect.
  • Claude Code.mcp.jsonSave at the project root, then start Claude Code in that project and review the MCP server approval prompt. Keep real credentials out of shared files.

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