# BC FOI Release Search

> BC FOI Release Search is a paid API for AI agents from foi.itsthesheet.ca, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Full-text search over published British Columbia Freedom of Information (FOI) release packages

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://foi.itsthesheet.ca/v1/search_releases?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/bc-foi-release-search-3ba61f61
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_QfILvLToP4cNAr6xdQjj1

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 bc-foi-release-search-3ba61f61 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the BC FOI release database for any published packages mentioning 'Site C dam' and return up to 15 results.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to search published British Columbia government FOI disclosure packages by keyword or topic. It is purpose-built for BC government transparency research and is ideal when users want to find what information the BC government has officially released under freedom of information law. Not suitable for other Canadian provinces, federal ATIP records, or unpublished/in-progress FOI requests.

## Known failure modes

- Empty results if the query matches no published FOI packages
- Query too broad returns only top-N hits with no pagination
- Service unavailable or payment failure returns error
- Malformed request body returns validation error
- Query string with very niche or misspelled terms yields zero matches

## How this service works

Full-text search of published British Columbia FOI release packages.

## Output

Returns a list of matching FOI release package records from British Columbia, each likely including document title, release metadata, and relevant text snippets, up to the specified limit (default 10).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max hits to return (default 10)"
  },
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Full-text search string over published FOI packages"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/bc-foi-release-search-3ba61f61/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from foi.itsthesheet.ca](https://www.zero.xyz/host/foi.itsthesheet.ca/llms.txt)