# AgentSvc Developer Search

> AgentSvc Developer Search is a paid API for AI agents from agentsvc.io, paid per call via x402, $0.0045/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-10).

Search across Hacker News, GitHub, npm, PyPI, and Stack Overflow simultaneously for developer-relevant content

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://agentsvc.io/api/v1/proxy/dev-search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.0045/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-10
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentsvc-developer-search-83f7257b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_HbpadwYXXwqaD8qiMKwL8

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 agentsvc-developer-search-83f7257b -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News and npm for 'x402' and show me the top 5 results — I want to see popular packages and any recent discussions about it.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to simultaneously search across multiple developer-focused platforms (npm, PyPI, GitHub, Hacker News, Stack Overflow) in a single call rather than querying each API individually. It is ideal for agent workflows that need to assess library popularity, discover open source alternatives, or monitor developer community sentiment about a topic, all without managing separate API keys or rate limits for each platform.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid source enum value returns a validation error
- Query string too broad may return noisy or irrelevant results across sources
- Limit exceeding 20 is rejected by schema validation
- A source platform being temporarily unavailable may return empty results for that source
- Payment failure via x402 results in 402 response before any search is performed

## How this service works

86 APIs for AI agents: web scraping and crawling to Markdown, AI summaries, data extraction and cited answers, screenshots and PDF, PDF, OCR and document conversion, news, paper and developer search and more, paid per call with USDC on Base, Solana, Polygon or Arbitrum via x402. No account, no API key, free sample on every service.

## Output

A JSON object keyed by source platform (e.g. 'npm', 'hackernews', 'github', 'pypi', 'stackoverflow'), each containing an array of result objects. npm/PyPI results include package name, URL, version, description, weekly downloads, and last updated date. Hacker News results include title, URL, author, points, comment count, and discussion link. Also includes a 'searched_at' ISO timestamp.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 5,
   "maximum": 20,
   "minimum": 1
  },
  "query": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "sources": {
   "type": "array",
   "items": {
    "enum": [
     "hackernews",
     "github",
     "npm",
     "pypi",
     "stackoverflow"
    ],
    "type": "string"
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {
   "query": "x402",
   "sources": {
    "npm": [
     {
      "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/package/x402",
      "name": "x402",
      "updated": "2026-04-16",
      "version": "1.2.0",
      "repository": "git+https://github.com/x402-foundation/x402.git",
      "description": "x402 Payment Protocol",
      "weekly_downloads": 541785
     }
    ],
    "hackernews": [
     {
      "url": "https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway/",
      "date": "2026-07-01",
      "title": "Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402",
      "author": "soheilpro",
      "points": 355,
      "comments": 251,
      "discussion": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746914"
     }
    ]
   },
   "searched_at": "2026-10-06T14:30:55.176Z"
  },
  "success": true
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentsvc-developer-search-83f7257b/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agentsvc.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agentsvc.io/llms.txt)