# Bounty Engineer URL Normalizer

> Bounty Engineer URL Normalizer is a paid API for AI agents from bounty-engineer-x402-prod.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Normalizes a URL by sorting query parameters, stripping tracking/noise params, and returning a canonical SHA-256-hashed form

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://bounty-engineer-x402-prod.onrender.com/v1/url-normalize?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/bounty-engineer-url-normalizer-e1f38307
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_7IfY2bSVRSbDlHn_tRjgA

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 bounty-engineer-url-normalizer-e1f38307 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Clean up this URL for me — strip the UTM and fbclid tracking params and give me a normalized, canonical version with its SHA-256 fingerprint: https://example.com/page?a=1&utm_source=google&fbclid=abc123

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a lightweight, deterministic URL canonicalization step — especially for deduplication pipelines, cache-key generation, or pre-storage normalization where removing tracking parameters (UTM, fbclid, gclid) is required. Prefer it over manual string manipulation when you also need a stable SHA-256 fingerprint alongside the clean URL.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or malformed URL input returns an error
- Network timeout on the render.com host during cold start
- Unexpected query parameter handling if drop_params conflicts with required params
- Empty or missing url field returns a validation error

## How this service works

Machine-buyable infrastructure for autonomous agents: API cost routing, margin optimization, funding-rate data, webpage extraction, result verification, spend controls, retry planning, state, tender search and GitHub bounty intelligence.

## Output

A JSON object containing: ok (boolean), mode ('url_normalize'), sha256 (hex string fingerprint of the normalized URL), dropped_params (array of parameter names that were removed), and normalized_url (the cleaned canonical URL string with sorted query parameters).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "url": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "drop_params": {
   "type": "array"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "ok": true,
  "mode": "url_normalize",
  "sha256": "051029b6a13fc6686e4523427e03b3a177e6970f9bfe03b026a9a023819b902a",
  "dropped_params": [
   "utm_source",
   "utm_medium",
   "utm_campaign",
   "utm_term",
   "utm_content",
   "gclid",
   "fbclid"
  ],
  "normalized_url": "https://example.com/a?a=1&b=2"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/bounty-engineer-url-normalizer-e1f38307/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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