# CryptoRisk API – Live Web Search

> CryptoRisk API – Live Web Search is a paid API for AI agents from cryptorisk-api.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Performs a live web search and returns clean, structured JSON results for a given query.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://cryptorisk-api.vercel.app/api/search
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/cryptorisk-api-live-web-search-78802ad6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_KYgJLpAqn_uBybbqJq97c

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 cryptorisk-api-live-web-search-78802ad6 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the web for 'best open-source LLMs in 2025' and give me the top results as structured JSON — titles, URLs, and snippets.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need live, real-time web search results returned as clean JSON with no API key or account setup — ideal for AI agents that need pay-per-call search without committing to a subscription. Prefer this over alternatives when operating in a crypto-native x402 payment context or when co-located with other cryptorisk-api utilities (scrape, extract, LLM) in the same pipeline.

## Known failure modes

- Empty query returns an error or empty results array
- Rate limiting or payment failure returns a 402 or 429 response
- Query for very obscure topics may return few or no results
- Network or upstream search provider outage returns a 5xx error
- Malformed POST body (missing query field) returns a 400 error

## How this service works

Search: live web search results as clean JSON.

## Output

A clean JSON array of web search results, each containing a title, URL, and snippet/description for the matching pages found on the live web.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/cryptorisk-api-live-web-search-78802ad6/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from cryptorisk-api.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/cryptorisk-api.vercel.app/llms.txt)