# Art Institute of Chicago Collection Search

> Art Institute of Chicago Collection Search is a paid API for AI agents from clonecho.builda.company, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Searches the Art Institute of Chicago's public collection and returns artwork IDs, titles, and thumbnail alt text for matching results.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://clonecho.builda.company/x402/s/artic-search
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/art-institute-of-chicago-collection-search-d9cc9df4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ixf82aRZC6M_82UUUrSGW

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 art-institute-of-chicago-collection-search-d9cc9df4 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the Art Institute of Chicago's collection for artworks related to 'water lilies' and give me the IDs, titles, and image descriptions.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to search and discover artworks from the Art Institute of Chicago specifically, especially for retrieving artwork IDs, titles, and thumbnail descriptions. Prefer this over generic web searches when you need structured, machine-readable museum metadata from the AIC collection.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or no results if the query term matches nothing in the AIC collection
- Malformed or missing query parameter returns an error or empty result
- AIC upstream API downtime causes request failure
- Rate limiting or quota errors from the underlying keyless AIC API

## How this service works

Search the Art Institute of Chicago collection returning id, title and thumbnail alt text, from the keyless AIC API. Param is a query. Query: ?q= Returns JSON.

## Output

A JSON array of artworks from the AIC collection matching the query, each containing the artwork's internal ID, title, and thumbnail alt text (descriptive label for the thumbnail image).

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/art-institute-of-chicago-collection-search-d9cc9df4/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from clonecho.builda.company](https://www.zero.xyz/host/clonecho.builda.company/llms.txt)