Charge the Bots.
Unburden Your Bandwidth.
Turn Scrapers into Revenue.

from flask import Flask
from agent_tollbooth import AgentTollbooth

app = Flask(__name__)

# Attach Agent Tollbooth Middleware
AgentTollbooth(app, price_per_request=0.005, checkout_url="https://proofchain.us/tollbooth/")

@app.route("/api/data")
def get_data():
    return {"status": "success", "content": "Valuable content"}

const express = require('express');
const { agentTollbooth } = require('./agentTollbooth');

const app = express();

// Attach Agent Tollbooth Express Middleware
app.use(agentTollbooth({ pricePerRequest: 0.005 }));

app.get('/api/data', (req, res) => {
  res.json({ status: 'success', content: 'Valuable content' });
});

# Place in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yoursite.conf
map $http_user_agent $is_ai_bot {
    default 0;
    "~*gptbot" 1;
    "~*claudebot" 1;
    "~*bytespider" 1;
    "~*perplexitybot" 1;
}

server {
    if ($is_ai_bot) {
        add_header X-402-Payment-Required "true";
        return 402 '{"status":402,"error":"Payment Required","checkout_url":"https://proofchain.us/tollbooth/"}';
    }
}