QR code

Generate a QR code PNG from any text or URL. ?text=…&size=256 (128-1024).

Input

Field	Type	Description
text *	string	Content to encode (max 2KB)
size	string	Image width px (128-1024, default 256)

Example output

{
  "contentType": "image/png",
  "body": "(binary PNG image)"
}

Try it - see the 402 challenge (free)

curl -i "https://agent402.tools/api/qr?text=https%3A%2F%2Fagent402.tools&size=256"

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/qr?text=https%3A%2F%2Fagent402.tools&size=256");

No wallet? Pay with compute

This is a pure-CPU tool, so an agent without a wallet can pay with proof-of-work instead of USDC: fetch a challenge, solve the sha256 puzzle (16 leading zero bits - a fraction of a second of CPU, no money, no AI tokens), and resend with the X-Pow-Solution header.

import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
const lz = (b) => { let t = 0; for (const x of b) { if (!x) { t += 8; continue; } t += Math.clz32(x) - 24; break; } return t; };
const c = await (await fetch("https://agent402.tools/api/pow/challenge?slug=qr")).json();
let n = 0;
while (lz(createHash("sha256").update(c.challenge + ":" + n).digest()) < c.difficulty) n++;
await fetch("https://agent402.tools/api/qr", { method: "GET", headers: { "X-Pow-Solution": c.token + ":" + n } });

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