# Apify Market Gap Finder

> Apify Market Gap Finder is a paid API for AI agents from api.timzinin.com, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-16).

Analyzes market niches to identify gaps and rank business opportunities by score

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.timzinin.com/api/apify-market-gap-finder?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/apify-market-gap-finder-26f4e235
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_bFDSZR9-2awB_95hc8zUF

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 apify-market-gap-finder-26f4e235 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you run a market gap analysis on the home fitness equipment niche and tell me which opportunities score highest?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a scored, ranked list of market gaps for a specific niche or keyword set and want a structured JSON report. Prefer this over generic web searches when you need quantified opportunity scores and confidence ratings rather than qualitative editorial content. Best suited for agents doing automated market research, business validation, or content gap analysis at $0.10 per call.

## Known failure modes

- Low sample confidence if too few queries are evaluated — results may be unreliable for very narrow niches
- Empty results array if the niche has insufficient data
- Timeout or high run_ms if the underlying Apify scrape takes too long
- Invalid or missing requestId may cause malformed report output
- Payment settlement failure via x402 protocol if wallet lacks sufficient USDC

## How this service works

Pay-per-call data & tool APIs

## Output

Returns a structured market gap report with ranked opportunities, each scored numerically (e.g. score of 61.2), along with metadata including run time in milliseconds, item count, number of evaluated queries, schema version, and a sample confidence indicator (low/medium/high).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "requestId": {
   "type": "string",
   "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._:-]{0,127}$"
  },
  "categories": {
   "type": "array",
   "items": {
    "type": "string",
    "pattern": "^(?!.*[\\u0000-\\u001F\\u007F])(?!.*[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9+.-]{1,31}:(//|[^\\s]+)).*$",
    "maxLength": 40,
    "minLength": 1
   },
   "maxItems": 5,
   "minItems": 0,
   "uniqueItems": true
  },
  "maxResults": {
   "type": "integer",
   "maximum": 100,
   "minimum": 1
  },
  "detailLevel": {
   "enum": [
    "compact",
    "evidence"
   ],
   "type": "string"
  },
  "seedQueries": {
   "type": "array",
   "items": {
    "type": "string",
    "pattern": "^(?!.*[\\u0000-\\u001F\\u007F])(?!.*[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9+.-]{1,31}:(//|[^\\s]+)).*$",
    "maxLength": 80,
    "minLength": 2
   },
   "maxItems": 20,
   "minItems": 2,
   "uniqueItems": true
  },
  "schemaVersion": {
   "enum": [
    "1.0"
   ],
   "type": "string"
  },
  "freshnessMinutes": {
   "type": "integer",
   "maximum": 10080,
   "minimum": 0
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "meta": {
   "run_ms": 1200,
   "settled": true,
   "item_count": 1
  },
  "results": [
   {
    "requestId": "gap-001",
    "reportType": "market_gap_report",
    "generatedAt": "2026-07-31T00:00:00.000Z",
    "opportunities": [
     {
      "rank": 1,
      "niche": "market gap",
      "opportunity": {
       "score": 61.2
      }
     }
    ],
    "schemaVersion": "1.0",
    "sampleConfidence": "low",
    "evaluatedQueryCount": 2
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/apify-market-gap-finder-26f4e235/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.timzinin.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.timzinin.com/llms.txt)