# Base Intel Web Search API

> Base Intel Web Search API is a paid API for AI agents from base-intel-api.jakemaxsigal.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.015/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Performs real-time web searches and returns ranked, de-duplicated results with titles, URLs, snippets, sources, dates, extra RAG context snippets, and top news items.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://base-intel-api.jakemaxsigal.workers.dev/search
- Price: $0.015/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/base-intel-web-search-api-91772c09
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_sUHmIzRdguC1CxOkIGLT8

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 base-intel-web-search-api-91772c09 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the web for the latest news and information about the US Federal Reserve interest rate decision in 2025 — give me up to 5 ranked results with sources and snippets I can cite.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs real-time, up-to-date web information that is not in its training data, needs to ground responses with cited sources, or needs to retrieve current news — especially within a Base/crypto-focused or general RAG pipeline where x402 micropayment billing is already in use.

## Known failure modes

- Query parameter missing — returns error with no results
- Count out of range (not 1-10) — may return default count or error
- No results found for obscure query — returns empty results array
- Payment not included or invalid — returns 402 Payment Required
- Upstream search provider outage — returns error or empty response
- Rate limit exceeded — returns 429 or error response

## How this service works

Web search for AI agents: search the web for current, real-time info to answer questions, research topics, and ground LLM responses with cited sources. Returns ranked, de-duplicated results (title, URL, clean snippet, source, date, plus extra context snippets for RAG) and top news. Also: internet search API, live web search, real-time search engine, news search, fact lookup, web grounding, RAG retrieval. For AI agents and chatbots. Usage: GET /search?q=your+query (count=1-10).

## Output

A JSON object containing: the original query, result count, provider name, timestamp, an array of ranked web results (each with title, URL, description/snippet, source, published date, age, and extra_snippets for RAG), and a news array of top news items (title, URL, source, published date, age).

## Example request

```json
{
 "q": "artificial intelligence trends 2025",
 "count": 5,
 "recency": "month"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/base-intel-web-search-api-91772c09/health.json
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