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citepulse.theaslangroupllc.com api ref-check

https://citepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/ref-check

payable, partial

Bibliography verification for AI research agents — POST up to 20 citations (DOIs or free-text references) and get a per-reference verdict: exists/not-found, retracted/withdrawn (Crossref + Retraction Watch + OpenAlex), and title/author/year mismatches against a real record. Built for agents auditing LLM-generated bibliographies before a citation ships.

We sent a real GET request to this endpoint and it answered 402 with payment requirements we could parse. It advertises 13 ways to pay and only 12 of them are usable.
Price
$0.02
Network
base
Pay to
0x50ab2018c06c6E4eAA9BA52057Eb55eD284912fc
Spec dialect
v2 (declares x402Version 2)
Transport
PAYMENT-REQUIRED header
HTTP method
GET
Response latency
213 ms
Payment options
12 usable of 13
Last checked
2026-08-10T09:13:03.376Z (1d ago)
Category
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Re-check it yourself:
curl "https://api.the402.dev/validate?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitepulse.theaslangroupllc.com%2Fapi%2Fref-check"