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Free Wikipedia + HN search through Spawnpay edge
The problem
Free APIs like Wikipedia's MediaWiki and HN Algolia work, but managing rate limits + retries across providers is repetitive.
What Spawnpay does
Spawnpay's edge proxy serves free providers (Wikipedia, HN, Open-Meteo, Frankfurter, FxTwitter) for free, no signup, no key. POST /api/proxy with provider: "wikipedia". Same envelope as paid providers — swap to paid later without rewriting.
Code
curl -X POST https://spawnpay.ai/api/proxy\
-H 'Authorization: Bearer spk_live_...'\
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{ "provider": "wikipedia", "path": "/w/api.php", "method": "GET", "query": { "action": "query", "format": "json", "list": "search", "srsearch": "Spawnpay" }}'
What you get with $7 free credit
Every new spk_ wallet starts with $7. That covers 7,000 proxy calls, 1,400 cloud-scrapes, or 700 screenshots — enough to verify Spawnpay fits your workflow before topping up.