Access to Protected / Premium Web Content by a Paying Web Crawler

This demo / reference implementation demonstrates access to protected / premium website content by a "paying" web crawler. The web crawler creates KYAPay tokens and delivers them to the website in every request. The bot blocker / web application firewall protecting the website validates / verifies the token and grants access to the website. If the token is missing or its balance is depleted, then the bot blocker / web application firewall returns an HTTP 402 status to the web crawler along with information on how to acquire / create the KYAPay tokens.

We have included source code for all the parties involved

  • Web crawler
  • Bot blocker

Artifacts

This demo showcases the versatility of the KYAPay protocol and the near universal applicability of the protocol in enabling agentic commerce.