# AgentUtility Search Web

> AgentUtility Search Web is a paid API for AI agents from x402.agentutility.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Performs a web search via Decodo Google Search and returns ranked results with titles, domains, and snippets, billed at $0.01 USDC per call over x402.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/search-web
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentutility-search-web-21ab38e8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ZazDLHWDCOPGa0jrHRaYY

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 agentutility-search-web-21ab38e8 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the web for 'x402 micropayment protocol use cases' and give me the top results with titles, domains, and snippets.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs real-time, live web search results with titles, domains, and snippets, especially when operating in a pay-per-call micropayment (x402/USDC) environment and you want to avoid subscription-based search APIs. Prefer this over static knowledge retrieval when freshness of information matters.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or malformed query string returns an error or empty results
- Insufficient USDC balance or failed x402 payment returns a 402 Payment Required response
- Query exceeds character limits or uses unsupported syntax
- Rate limiting if too many requests are made in quick succession
- Upstream Decodo search API outage returns a 5xx error

## How this service works

Ranked Google results with snippets and domains from Decodo Google Search. A low-cost web-search endpoint for source discovery; use answer-web when you need a synthesized, cited answer.

## Output

A JSON array of web search results, each containing a page title, domain, and a short snippet summarizing the page content, sourced from Decodo's Google Search index.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "required": [
      "query"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "limit": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Alias for num_results. If both are supplied, num_results wins."
      },
      "query": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Search query. 1-500 chars."
      },
      "recency": {
       "enum": [
        "day",
        "week",
        "month",
        "year",
        "any"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional freshness filter. Default 'any'."
      },
      "num_results": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Number of results to return. Default 10, max 20."
      },
      "include_text": {
       "type": "boolean",
       "description": "Accepted for compatibility. This route always returns ranked result metadata with include_text: false; use scrape-to-json for page text."
      }
     }
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "note": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "query": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "source": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "results": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
         "title": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "domain": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "snippet": {
          "type": "string"
         }
        }
       }
      },
      "degraded": {
       "type": "boolean"
      },
      "source_url": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "include_text": {
       "type": "boolean"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "query": "x402 payments",
  "source": "Decodo Google Search",
  "results": [
   {
    "title": "Example",
    "domain": "example.com",
    "snippet": "Pay per request..."
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentutility-search-web-21ab38e8/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.agentutility.ai](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.agentutility.ai/llms.txt)