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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: ISHOB Dataset API
version: 1.0.0
description: 'ISHOB is an x402-enabled utility gateway for autonomous agents: scheduled callbacks (agent alarms), token and wallet security checks, weather and location risk, document rendering, web extraction, company data and an open-licence research archive. Pay per call in USDC on Base; no account or API key.'
contact:
name: ISHOB
email: contact@ishob.com
url: https://ishob.com
x-guidance: 'ISHOB is a gateway of tools for AI agents. Every operation with x-payment-info is paid per call with x402 (USDC on Base): call it, read the 402 PAYMENT-REQUIRED header, sign with an x402 client and retry. Invalid input is rejected with 400 before any payment is requested. The same tools are available over MCP at POST /mcp. Tool docs: https://ishob.com/tools'
servers:
- url: https://api.ishob.com
tags:
- name: Dataset
paths:
/v1/dataset/{key}:
get:
operationId: get_dataset
summary: 'Static Knowledge Base: open, commercially reusable datasets (world cities…'
description: 'Static Knowledge Base: open, commercially reusable datasets (world cities, countries, ISHOB topics) by page, by id or by facet filter, with licence and attribution. Free catalogue: /v1/datasets.'
x-payment:
protocol: x402
version: 2
scheme: exact
network: eip155:8453
asset: USDC
price_usd: '0.0001'
x-mcp-tool: get_dataset
responses:
'200':
description: Result (JSON); PAYMENT-RESPONSE header carries the settlement receipt
'400':
description: Invalid input (no payment requested)
'402':
description: 'Payment required: PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (base64 JSON) lists accepted payment requirements'
'403':
description: robots.txt disallows the target (no payment requested)
'404':
description: Not found (no payment requested)
'503':
description: Backend temporarily unavailable (no payment requested)
parameters:
- name: key
in: path
required: true
schema:
type: string
description: Dataset key from /v1/datasets, e.g. world-cities, countries, archive-topics
description: Dataset key from /v1/datasets, e.g. world-cities, countries, archive-topics
example: world-cities
- name: page
in: query
required: false
schema:
type: integer
minimum: 0
description: Page number (default 0)
description: Page number (default 0)
- name: id
in: query
required: false
schema:
type: string
maxLength: 64
description: Return one record by id
description: Return one record by id
- name: country_code
in: query
required: false
schema:
type: string
description: Facet filter (world-cities), e.g. FR
description: Facet filter (world-cities), e.g. FR
example: FR
- name: continent
in: query
required: false
schema:
type: string
description: Facet filter (countries), e.g. Europe
description: Facet filter (countries), e.g. Europe
x-payment-info:
price:
mode: fixed
currency: USD
amount: '0.0001'
protocols:
- x402: {}
tags:
- Dataset