Captcha verify

Validate a Cloudflare Turnstile, Google reCAPTCHA, or hCaptcha token server-side. Send POST /api/captcha-verify with the required fields provider, secret and token and pay $0.002 per call over x402 or MPP (there is no free tier). It returns a JSON object with provider, success, hostname and errorCodes.

You pass your OWN provider secret plus the token from the client; we relay to the provider's siteverify endpoint (never logged) and return the normalized verdict (success, hostname, action, score, error codes). The legitimate backend half of bot protection - no solving, no bypass.

Category: API primitives · Tags: captcha turnstile recaptcha hcaptcha verify bot-protection siteverify signup

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Parameters

Example request

curl -i -X POST https://agent402.tools/api/captcha-verify \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"provider":"turnstile","secret":"1x0000000000000000000000000000000AA","token":"XXXX.DUMMY.TOKEN.XXXX"}'

Without payment this returns HTTP 402 Payment Required with the exact price for captcha-verify; any x402 v2 or MPP client pays it and retries.

Example response

{
  "provider": "turnstile",
  "success": true,
  "hostname": "example.com",
  "errorCodes": []
}

From an MCP client

catalog.call {
  "slug": "captcha-verify",
  "params": {
    "provider": "turnstile",
    "secret": "1x0000000000000000000000000000000AA",
    "token": "XXXX.DUMMY.TOKEN.XXXX"
  }
}

The hosted connector at https://agent402.tools/mcp needs a payment for captcha-verify; the stdio package pays it from a wallet or from AGENT402_CREDITS_KEY. Local install: npx -y agent402-mcp.

Errors and behavior

• provider, secret and token are required. An input the tool rejects returns an HTTP 4xx whose body carries error, tool, expected, required and example, so the caller can correct it.
• A paid call that ends in any status of 400 or above is not charged over x402, MPP or a prepaid credits key: settlement is cancelled when the tool fails. The exception is a Tempo push credential, a transfer the buyer sent before the call: it settles before the tool runs, so if the tool then fails the payment is recorded as a refund owed to the paying wallet.
• Wallet-only: this tool reaches the network or stored state, so it has no proof-of-work tier. A prepaid card-credits key issued earlier (Authorization: Bearer a402_...) also pays it.
• A GET or HEAD to /api/captcha-verify returns the same 402 quote, so the price can be read without a body.
• An Idempotency-Key header makes a retried paid call replay the first 200 instead of charging again (an answer larger than 1 MB is not replayed).

Paid call (JavaScript agent)

import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch";
import { x402Client } from "@x402/core/client";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

const client = new x402Client();
client.setSpendControls?.(false); // keep your own spending ceiling in code
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(KEY) });
const payFetch = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

const res = await payFetch("https://agent402.tools/api/captcha-verify", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "provider": "turnstile",
    "secret": "1x0000000000000000000000000000000AA",
    "token": "XXXX.DUMMY.TOKEN.XXXX"
  }),
});

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