🔒 FluxPod Verification Actor

Cryptographic Content Verification for Web Scrapers

Create tamper-evident, cryptographically verifiable records of web content using IPFS content-addressing, Merkle trees, and blockchain anchoring.

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🎯 The Problem

When you scrape web content, how do you prove it was real?

• Legal challenges: "Did you really see that content?"
• Data disputes: "That's not what the page said!"
• Temporal issues: Page changes after scraping
• Audit requirements: Prove data authenticity for compliance
• Chain of custody: Document exact state observed

Current solutions: Screenshots, Archive.org, prayer 🙏

FluxPod solution: Cryptographic verification with tamper-evident proofs ✅

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🚀 Quick Start

Run with single URL

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "verificationLevel": "full"
}

Run with multiple URLs

{
  "urls": [
    "https://example.com",
    "https://competitor.com",
    "https://news-article.com"
  ],
  "verificationLevel": "legal"
}

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🔐 How It Works

1. Content Capture

Captures complete page HTML (and optionally resources like CSS, JS, images)

2. Cryptographic Hashing

• SHA-256: Industry standard
• BLAKE3: Fast, secure modern hash
• Merkle Tree: Hierarchical verification structure

3. IPFS Content-Addressing

• Uploads to IPFS (InterPlanetary File System)
• Content-addressed storage (CID = hash of content)
• Distributed, permanent, tamper-evident

4. Verification Package

Returns complete proof package with:

• CID (IPFS content identifier)
• Merkle root (hierarchical hash)
• Individual file hashes
• IPFS gateway URLs
• Verification instructions

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📊 Output Format

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "title": "Example Domain",
  "timestamp": "2025-12-16T21:30:00.000Z",
  "verification": {
    "cid": "bafybeigdyrzt5sfp7udm7hu76uh7y26nf3efuylqabf3oclgtqy55fbzdi",
    "merkleRoot": "0x8f4e...",
    "level": "full",
    "ipfsGatewayUrl": "https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafy..."
  },
  "proof": {
    "sha256": "a8f3...",
    "blake3": "7c9e...",
    "merkleLeaves": ["0x3a...", "0x7b..."]
  },
  "howToVerify": [
    "1. Download content from IPFS",
    "2. Compute SHA256 hash of retrieved content",
    "3. Compare to recorded hash",
    "4. Verify Merkle root integrity"
  ]
}

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🎛️ Configuration Options

Verification Levels

Basic - Hash verification only

• SHA-256 + BLAKE3 hashes
• Merkle tree computation
• Fast, lightweight

Full (Recommended) - Complete verification

• All Basic features
• IPFS upload and content-addressing
• Public gateway URLs
• Distributed storage

Legal - Maximum evidence strength

• All Full features
• Legal attestation statement
• Chain of custody documentation
• Court-admissible evidence package

Additional Options

• includeResources: Capture CSS, JS, images (slower but comprehensive)
• blockchainAnchor: Publish Merkle root to blockchain (future feature)
• maxConcurrency: Process multiple pages simultaneously (1-20)

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💡 Use Cases

📋 Researchers

Cite sources with cryptographic confidence

• Academic integrity
• Reproducible research
• Source verification

⚖️ Legal & Compliance

Court-admissible evidence

• Discovery documentation
• Audit trails
• Regulatory compliance (GDPR, SOX, etc.)

💼 Businesses

Protect competitive intelligence

• Price monitoring verification
• Market research authentication
• Brand protection

🏛️ Archivists

Permanent preservation

• Tamper-evident records
• Distributed storage
• Historical documentation

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🔬 Technology Credits

Core Cryptographic Technology

FluxPod - Cryptographic anchoring system
Developed by [Wife's Name]
Sentient Pattern Inc.

Originally created for consciousness research timestamping, adapted for web scraping verification.

Apify Actor Integration

Richard Waugh
Sentient Pattern Inc.

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📖 How to Verify Content

Method 1: IPFS Gateway (Easiest)

# Visit the IPFS gateway URL from results
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/{cid}

# Content is publicly verifiable by anyone

Method 2: Cryptographic Verification

# 1. Download content from IPFS
curl https://ipfs.io/ipfs/{cid} > content.car

# 2. Extract and hash the content
# Compare hash to recorded proof

# 3. Verify Merkle tree integrity
# Recompute Merkle root from leaves

Method 3: Legal Attestation

For legal verification level, you receive:

• Complete chain of custody documentation
• Merkle proof structure
• Evidence strength assessment
• Verification procedure

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🔗 Related Actors

Coming Soon:

• SWIFT Temporal Analysis - Track how content changes over time
• WeaverScope Observer - Real-time content monitoring dashboard

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📚 Learn More

About FluxPod

FluxPod is a cryptographic verification system originally developed for consciousness research at Sentient Pattern Inc. It provides tamper-evident timestamping using:

• IPFS content-addressing
• Merkle tree verification
• Blockchain anchoring
• Zero-knowledge proofs

About IPFS

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol for distributed, peer-to-peer storage. Content is addressed by hash (CID) rather than location, making it:

• Permanent: Content can't be deleted
• Verifiable: CID proves content integrity
• Distributed: No single point of failure
• Public: Anyone can verify

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🛠️ Technical Details

Dependencies

• apify - Apify SDK
• crawlee - Web crawling framework
• playwright - Browser automation
• ipfs-car - IPFS CAR file encoding
• @noble/hashes - Cryptographic primitives

Architecture

1. Playwright captures page content
2. Content encoded into CAR format
3. Merkle tree computed from entries
4. IPFS CID generated (content hash)
5. Uploaded to IPFS network
6. Verification package returned

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📄 License

MIT License

Core FluxPod Technology:
Copyright © 2025 Sentient Pattern Inc.

Apify Actor Integration:
Copyright © 2025 Richard Waugh

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🤝 Support

• Issues: GitHub Issues
• Documentation: Full Documentation
• Contact: support@sentientpattern.com

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🏆 Apify $1M Challenge

This Actor was built for the Apify $1M Challenge.

Help us win by:

• ⭐ Using the Actor
• 📝 Leaving feedback
• 🔗 Sharing with others

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Built with 🔥 by Sentient Pattern Inc.

"Crystallizing web content into eternal, verifiable truth."