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ChronicaPulse Business History Search
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ChronicaPulse Business History Search is a paid API for AI agents from chronicapulse.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.08/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).
Returns historical newspaper coverage of companies, shops, and industries from digitized archives for genealogy and research agents.
Price / call$0.08
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Business history research for genealogy and research agents. Returns historical newspaper coverage of companies, shops, and industries from digitized archives.
Output
A collection of historical newspaper coverage about the specified business or industry, drawn from digitized newspaper archives, including article excerpts, publication names, dates, and contextual narrative about the company's historical presence.
Example use cases
Trace family business origins through old newspapers
“I'm researching my great-grandfather's dry goods store in Boston from the 1890s. Can you search the historical newspaper archives for mentions of his business — I'd like to see what the local press said about it back then?”
Research a defunct local industry's historical impact
“Our town used to have several textile mills in the 1800s that employed most of the population. Can you dig through the digitized newspaper archives to find coverage of these mills and how they shaped our community's growth?”
Discover historical context for genealogy immigration research
“My family immigrated to Chicago in 1905, and I know they worked in the meatpacking industry. Can you find old newspaper articles that mention the meatpacking plants and working conditions from that era to better understand what they experienced?”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://chronicapulse.vercel.app/api/chronica/businessWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when a user needs historical newspaper-based evidence of a business, shop, company, or industry — especially for genealogy research, family business history, local history projects, or academic research into commercial history. Prefer this over general web search when the goal is primary-source digitized archive coverage rather than modern business data.
Side effects
- No archive records found for the specified business name or time period — returns empty result set
- Business name too generic causing ambiguous matches across unrelated companies
- Requested time period predates available digitized archive coverage
- Invalid or missing required query parameters return a 400 error
- Payment failure via x402 protocol returns 402 Payment Required
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| era | string | era |
| lang | string | lang |
| businessrequired | string | business |
| location | string | location |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {}
}Tags
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