Multi-source intelligence search across 19+ platforms in a single API call, paid via x402 micropayments.
What it does
Scout is a multi-source intelligence API that searches 19+ platforms in parallel through a single endpoint. Supported sources include Hacker News, GitHub, npm, PyPI, Stack Overflow, arXiv, Semantic Scholar, X/Twitter, YouTube, Product Hunt, Dev.to, Qiita, Zenn, GitLab, Hashnode, Lobsters, Lemmy, Reddit, and the x402 Bazaar. The API accepts USDC payments on Base and Solana via the x402 protocol.
The `/scout/report` endpoint specifically runs a balanced intelligence report across 14 free sources (Hacker News, GitHub, npm, PyPI, Dev.to, Hashnode, Lobsters, StackExchange, ArXiv, Zenn, Qiita, Semantic Scholar, Lemmy, and GitLab) in parallel, returning aggregated results in a single response. It costs $0.005 per call (paid in USDC via x402). A companion `/scout/report/full` endpoint covers all 18 sources including X/Twitter, Product Hunt, Reddit, and YouTube for $0.25 per call. For AI-synthesized analysis, the `/scout/research` (POST, $0.25) and `/scout/research/deep` (POST, $0.50) endpoints add structured AI summaries with key findings, sentiment, trends, and recommendations on top of the raw search results.
Individual source endpoints are also available (e.g., `/scout/hn`, `/scout/github`, `/scout/arxiv`, `/scout/npm`) at $0.005 each, while the premium X/Twitter endpoint costs $0.20 due to upstream xAI API costs. All endpoints accept a `q` query parameter and a `per_page` parameter to control result volume. The API is live and returns a 402 payment challenge to unauthenticated callers, with alternative access methods available including a broker service, an MCP transport, and a Python SDK (`x402-pay`).
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Running a broad technology landscape scan across developer communities, code registries, and academic papers in one call
- —Monitoring sentiment and adoption of a new framework or protocol across 14–18 platforms simultaneously
- —Generating AI-synthesized research reports with key findings, trends, and recommendations for technical due diligence
- —Looking up specific GitHub repository details including contributors and releases
- —Searching academic literature across arXiv and Semantic Scholar with citation data
Fit
Best for
- —AI agents needing broad multi-platform search in a single API call
- —Developer tools that aggregate community signals across HN, Reddit, GitHub, and Stack Overflow
- —Research workflows requiring parallel search of academic and developer sources
- —Market analysis combining Product Hunt, X/Twitter, and developer community data
Not for
- —High-volume web scraping or crawling beyond the supported 19 platforms
- —Real-time streaming or push-based monitoring (this is a request-response API)
- —Searching non-technical or non-developer content domains
Quick start
# Using the x402-pay Python SDK
pip install x402-pay
import x402_pay
response = x402_pay.get(
'https://scout.hugen.tokyo/scout/report?q=MCP+servers&per_page=5'
)
print(response.json())Example
Response
{
"focus": "balanced",
"query": "MCP servers",
"results": {
"npm": {
"count": 5
},
"github": {
"count": 5
},
"hackernews": {
"count": 5
}
},
"total_results": 70,
"sources_searched": 14
}Endpoint
Quality
Full OpenAPI 3.0.3 schema with 17 documented endpoints, clear pricing in the spec, and a live 402 challenge confirming the endpoint works. Deducted because no dedicated docs page exists, response schemas are not formally defined (only description strings), and the crawl yielded no additional documentation beyond the OpenAPI spec and the 402 challenge sample.
Warnings
- —No /docs, /pricing, or /README pages are available on the server — all returned 'Cannot GET' errors.
- —Response schemas are described only as text strings in the OpenAPI spec; no formal JSON schema for response bodies is provided.
- —The 402 challenge sample shows $0.01 for the report endpoint, while the OpenAPI spec says $0.005 — there may be a pricing discrepancy.
Citations
- —Scout searches 19+ platforms including Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub, Stack Overflow, arXiv, npm, PyPI, X/Twitter, YouTube, Product Hunt, Dev.to, Qiita, Zenn, Semantic Scholar, GitLab, Hashnode, Lobsters, Lemmy, and x402 Bazaarhttps://scout.hugen.tokyo
- —The /scout/report endpoint runs a balanced intelligence report across 14 free sources for $0.005 per callhttps://scout.hugen.tokyo
- —The /scout/report/full endpoint covers all 18 sources including X/Twitter for $0.25 per callhttps://scout.hugen.tokyo
- —The /scout/research endpoint provides AI-synthesized reports for $0.25 and /scout/research/deep for $0.50https://scout.hugen.tokyo
- —The X/Twitter endpoint costs $0.20 due to upstream xAI API costhttps://scout.hugen.tokyo
- —Accepts USDC payments on Base and Solana via x402 protocolhttps://scout.hugen.tokyo
- —Alternative access via broker, MCP transport, and x402-pay Python SDKhttps://scout.hugen.tokyo