# Browserbase Web Search

> Browserbase Web Search is a paid API for AI agents from x402.browserbase.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Performs a web search and returns structured results including a list of matches and a request ID, priced at $0.01 per call.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.browserbase.com/search
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/browserbase-web-search-2e524534
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_eEYbo1zH1K3jngnFQ809O

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 browserbase-web-search-2e524534 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the web for the latest news on OpenAI's GPT-5 release and give me a structured list of the top results.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need live, structured web search results returned as a machine-readable array — particularly useful inside agentic workflows where downstream steps need to parse or rank results. Prefer it over scraping individual pages when you want broad keyword-based discovery. It complements the Browserbase page-fetch endpoint, which retrieves full content from a known URL.

## Known failure modes

- Empty results array if query matches nothing or is too obscure
- Malformed or overly long query strings may be rejected
- Payment failure (insufficient USDC balance) blocks the request
- Rate limiting if too many requests are made in quick succession
- Upstream web index unavailability may return errors or empty results

## How this service works

Web search with structured results. $0.01 per request.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the original query string, an array of structured search result items (e.g. titles, URLs, snippets), and a unique requestId for tracing the call.

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "results": {
   "type": "array"
  },
  "requestId": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/browserbase-web-search-2e524534/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.browserbase.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.browserbase.com/llms.txt)