US college lookup (Scorecard)

Look up US colleges by name via the Dept. of Education College Scorecard: state, out-of-state tuition, overall admission rate, and undergraduate size. Live gov data. ?name=Stanford&limit=5

Input

Example output

{
  "query": "Stanford",
  "count": 1,
  "colleges": [
    {
      "name": "Stanford University",
      "state": "CA",
      "tuitionOutOfStateUsd": 65910,
      "admissionRate": 0.0361,
      "undergraduateSize": 7554
    }
  ],
  "source": "api.data.gov / collegescorecard (public domain)"
}

Try it — see the 402 challenge (free)

curl -i "https://agent402.tools/api/college-lookup?name=Stanford&limit=5"

The response is HTTP 402 Payment Required with exact payment requirements. Any x402 v2 client pays automatically and retries:

Paid call (JavaScript agent)

import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch";
import { x402Client } from "@x402/core/client";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

const client = new x402Client();
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(KEY) });
const payFetch = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

const res = await payFetch("https://agent402.tools/api/college-lookup?name=Stanford&limit=5");

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