AISA is a Pay-per-Crawl platform. Publishers price their deep content per URL directory; crawlers pay per request from a prepaid balance, signalled by the HTTP 402 Payment Required standard. As a crawler, your world has exactly two planes:
/api/v1/access/verify endpoint — that is
gateway-and-publisher-side integration material (see /cdn/docs.html),
not something a crawler uses. Your entire crawling contract is:
send your token header and your honest User-Agent; read what comes back.
Key Concepts
| Concept | Description |
|---|---|
| Crawler Token | Your crawl credential. Format: aisa_crawler_<64 hex>. Sent as header X-AISA-Crawler-Token on every request to publisher sites. Obtained at registration. |
| Session Token | Short-lived token from register/login, used only for account APIs on this host (Authorization: Bearer <session>). Never used for crawling. |
| Balance | Prepaid USD balance. Each granted access to a priced resource deducts its per-request price. New accounts may start with a trial credit. |
| 402 Response | Payment-side action needed. The JSON body is self-describing: error says why, guidance says exactly what to do next. |
| 403 access_blocked | The publisher forbids crawler access to this resource. Payment does not unlock it. |
| guidance | Machine-readable block inside every denial: onboarding/docs/llms.txt/skill links, the register API, numbered steps, and (when active) the trial-credit notice. |