# Agent Kiosk Social Search API

> Agent Kiosk Social Search API is a paid API for AI agents from agent-kiosk.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-17).

Searches Reddit and Hacker News for posts and discussions matching a keyword query, returning ranked social results

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://agent-kiosk.vercel.app/v1/social-search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-17
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agent-kiosk-social-search-api-d6fe3d01
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_FhUC9w37dbBep7VY48MQi

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability agent-kiosk-social-search-api-d6fe3d01 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Reddit and Hacker News for up to 15 discussions about 'best AI coding agents' and show me what the community is saying.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need real community discussion data from Reddit or Hacker News specifically — ideal for gauging developer/tech community sentiment, finding grassroots feedback, or discovering trending topics in tech-savvy forums. Prefer over general web search when the goal is authentic user opinion rather than curated editorial content.

## Known failure modes

- Empty results if query is too niche or obscure
- Rate limiting if called too frequently
- Invalid platform enum value returns error
- Query too short or empty returns validation error
- Payment failure via x402 if USDC balance insufficient

## How this service works

Real-time social media search (Reddit, HackerNews) returning clean JSON & Markdown for AI agents.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with an 'ok' boolean and a 'data' object containing ranked social search results from the specified platforms (Reddit, Hacker News, or both), including post titles, links, scores, and discussion metadata matching the query.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "number"
  },
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Search keywords or topic"
  },
  "platform": {
   "enum": [
    "all",
    "reddit",
    "hn"
   ],
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "count": 5,
  "items": [
   {
    "score": 245,
    "title": "Show HN: Autonomous x402 Agents",
    "source": "hackernews"
   }
  ],
  "query": "autonomous AI agents",
  "platform": "all"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agent-kiosk-social-search-api-d6fe3d01/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agent-kiosk.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agent-kiosk.vercel.app/llms.txt)