# ChronicaPulse Person Research

> ChronicaPulse Person Research is a paid API for AI agents from chronicapulse.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.12/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Searches digitized historical newspaper archives to find mentions of ancestors and historical figures by person name

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://chronicapulse.vercel.app/api/chronica/person
- Price: $0.12/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/chronicapulse-person-research-7e04c14a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_9i1eZSkur0FY7dDMWfNTI

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 chronicapulse-person-research-7e04c14a
```

Example prompt: Can you search ChronicaPulse's newspaper archives for any historical mentions of my great-grandmother Eliza Mae Hartwell? I'm trying to trace her history through old newspapers.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to research a specific person — particularly an ancestor or historical figure — using digitized newspaper archives. It is especially useful for genealogy research, historical biography work, or tracing mentions of individuals in historical press. Prefer this over general web search when the subject is a historical or deceased person likely to appear in archived print media rather than modern digital sources.

## Known failure modes

- Person not found in any digitized newspaper archives — returns empty result set
- Name is too common and returns an overwhelming number of unrelated results
- Newspaper archives for the relevant time period or region are not digitized
- Payment of $0.12 USDC required per call via x402 protocol — missing or failed payment returns 402 error
- Invalid or malformed person name parameter causes 400 error

## How this service works

Person research for genealogy and family-history agents. Finds ancestors and historical figures across digitized newspaper archives.

## Output

Returns a list of historical newspaper archive matches for the queried person, including publication names, dates of mention, article excerpts or summaries, and other contextual details about where and how the person appeared in digitized newspapers.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "name"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "lang": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "lang"
  },
  "name": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "name"
  },
  "location": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "location"
  },
  "year_end": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "year_end"
  },
  "year_start": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "year_start"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {}
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/chronicapulse-person-research-7e04c14a/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from chronicapulse.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/chronicapulse.vercel.app/llms.txt)