---
title: "Dataset cleaning"
method: POST
path: "/v1/data/clean"
tags: ["data"]
---

# Dataset cleaning

`POST /v1/data/clean`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://apiacre.com`
- URL: `https://apiacre.com/v1/data/clean`
- Auth: none required

Clean CSV, TSV, JSON, JSON Lines, or YAML records with collision-safe header normalization, deterministic integrity hashes, and exact transformation counts.

Price: **$0.01 USDC** via x402 exact payment on Base and Solana.

## Request body

- CleanInput
  - `content` string, required
  - `format` 'csv' | 'tsv' | 'json' | 'jsonl' | 'yaml', required: Source format; use jsonl for JSON Lines or NDJSON
  - `trim_strings` boolean
  - `empty_to_null` boolean
  - `normalize_headers` boolean

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- ServiceResponse
  - `request_id` string, required
  - `service` string, required
  - `version` string
  - `data` object, required
  - `meta` ServiceMeta, required
    - `duration_ms` integer, required
    - `cached` boolean
    - `sources` string[]
    - `warnings` string[]
    - `next_actions` ServiceNextAction[]
      - `service` string, required
      - `title` string, required
      - `reason` string, required
      - `method` 'POST'
      - `path` string, required
      - `price` string, required
      - `input_template` object, required
      - `use_output` string, required
      - `handoff_path` string, required
      - `checkout_path` string, required
      - `sample_path` string, nullable, required
      - `maximum_atomic_usdc` string, required
      - `handoff_payment_required` false
      - `executes_automatically` false
      - `authorization_required` boolean

## Other responses

- `402`: Payment Required. Decode PAYMENT-REQUIRED, satisfy the x402 requirement, and retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE.
- `422`: Validation Error

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