Farcaster channel details

Details for one Farcaster channel by id (e.g. base) or FIP-2 parent URL: name, description, follower and member counts, public-casting flag, creation date, lead and moderator fids, pinned cast. Send POST /api/fc-channel with the required field id and pay $0.003 per call over x402 or MPP (there is no free tier). It returns a JSON object with source, fetchedAt, cached, rateLimit and channel.

Use to validate a channel id before pulling its feed, or to size a community.

Category: Web & documents · Tags: farcaster social channel community metadata

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Parameters

Example request

curl -i -X POST https://agent402.tools/api/fc-channel \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"id":"base"}'

Without payment this returns HTTP 402 Payment Required with the exact price for fc-channel; any x402 v2 or MPP client pays it and retries.

Example response

{
  "source": "neynar",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-08-22T13:19:12.000Z",
  "cached": false,
  "rateLimit": {
    "limit": 300,
    "remaining": 299,
    "resetAt": "2026-08-22T13:20:00.000Z"
  },
  "channel": {
    "id": "base",
    "name": "Base",
    "description": "Bringing the world onchain - a community of builders on Base",
    "parentUrl": "https://onchainsummer.xyz",
    "imageUrl": "https://warpcast.com/~/channel-images/base.png",
    "followerCount": 481202,
    "memberCount": 813,
    "publicCasting": false,
    "createdAt": "2023-08-17T19:23:11.150Z",
    "lead": {
      "fid": 12142,
      "username": "base.base.eth",
      "displayName": "Base",
      "followerCount": 194536
    },
    "moderatorFids": [
      12142,
      15211,
      99
    ],
    "pinnedCastHash": null,
    "url": "https://warpcast.com/~/channel/base"
  }
}

From an MCP client

catalog.call {
  "slug": "fc-channel",
  "params": {
    "id": "base"
  }
}

The hosted connector at https://agent402.tools/mcp needs a payment for fc-channel; the stdio package pays it from a wallet or from AGENT402_CREDITS_KEY. Local install: npx -y agent402-mcp.

Errors and behavior

• id is required. An input the tool rejects returns an HTTP 4xx whose body carries error, tool, expected, required and example, so the caller can correct it.
• A paid call that ends in any status of 400 or above is not charged over x402, MPP or a prepaid credits key: settlement is cancelled when the tool fails. The exception is a Tempo push credential, a transfer the buyer sent before the call: it settles before the tool runs, so if the tool then fails the payment is recorded as a refund owed to the paying wallet.
• Wallet-only: this tool reaches the network or stored state, so it has no proof-of-work tier. A prepaid card-credits key issued earlier (Authorization: Bearer a402_...) also pays it.
• A GET or HEAD to /api/fc-channel returns the same 402 quote, so the price can be read without a body.
• An Idempotency-Key header makes a retried paid call replay the first 200 instead of charging again (an answer larger than 1 MB is not replayed).

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();
client.setSpendControls?.(false); // keep your own spending ceiling in code
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(KEY) });
const payFetch = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

const res = await payFetch("https://agent402.tools/api/fc-channel", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "id": "base"
  }),
});

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