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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"  }}'
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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.

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