# AxonGate Live Web Search

> AxonGate Live Web Search is a paid API for AI agents from api.axongate.one, paid per call via x402, $0.004/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-30).

Performs a live web search and returns ranked results with title, URL, and snippet; optionally fetches and converts the top N results into clean Markdown in the same call.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.axongate.one/v1/search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.004/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-30
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/axongate-live-web-search-29adde4b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_a96vBjyIndrej02g7yzzl

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 axongate-live-web-search-29adde4b
```

Example prompt: Search the web for 'best open-source LLM frameworks in 2025' and give me the top 5 results with snippets — also read the top 2 pages into Markdown so I can see the actual content.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need live, current web results that your model's training data cannot provide — especially when you also want to read page content in the same call rather than making a separate fetch. It is ideal for citation-backed answering, news lookup, and research tasks. Prefer it over a plain fetch endpoint when you need ranked multi-source discovery first. If you only need to fact-check a single claim, use the AxonGate fact-check endpoint instead; if you only need a single page's content, use the AxonGate fetch endpoint.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or ambiguous query returns low-quality or zero results
- read_top > 3 rejected; value is clamped or returns an error
- Target pages may block scraping, returning empty Markdown for that result
- Payment failure (x402) if USDC balance is insufficient — call is not executed
- Rate limiting if too many calls are made in rapid succession
- Some pages may return truncated Markdown due to content length or dynamic rendering

## How this service works

Live web search for agents. Returns ranked results with title, URL and snippet; optionally reads the top results into clean Markdown in the same call. Use it to find current sources before answering or citing.

## Output

Returns a ranked list of up to 10 search results, each containing a title, URL, and snippet. If read_top is set (1-3), the response also includes clean LLM-ready Markdown of the full page content for those top results, enabling in-context reading without a separate fetch call.

## 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"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Search query."
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "Number of results, 1-10 (default 8)."
      },
      "read_top": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "Also read the top N results (0-3) into clean markdown (default 0)."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/axongate-live-web-search-29adde4b/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.axongate.one](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.axongate.one/llms.txt)