# edu-screen

> edu-screen is a paid API for AI agents from payai.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.008/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Fuzzy-matches a US college or university name against the federal DAPIP database, returning ranked institution candidates with DAPIP ID, OPEID, IPEDS unit ID, state, and accreditation flag.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://payai.agentstools.dev/edu/screen
- Price: $0.008/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/edu-screen-9d703c48
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_flng-FKNqfVc1bXUksDRL

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 edu-screen-9d703c48
```

Example prompt: Can you screen 'Northeastern University' against the federal DAPIP database and return the top 5 matching institution candidates with their OPEID, DAPIP ID, and whether they're accredited?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint as a cheap first-pass screening step when you have a freeform institution name and need to resolve it to a canonical federal record (OPEID/IPEDS) before running a more expensive accreditation verification. Prefer it over a full verification endpoint when you only need candidate matching, or when input quality is uncertain and you want to confirm a match exists first.

## Known failure modes

- No candidates found if the name is too abbreviated or misspelled beyond fuzzy threshold
- Ambiguous results when a common word (e.g. 'National University') matches many institutions
- Rate or payment errors (402) if USDC micropayment is not included
- Empty result set for non-US institutions not in DAPIP
- Limit parameter out of range (1–15) returns a validation error

## How this service works

Screen a US college or university name against the federal DAPIP database: fuzzy name search returning ranked institution candidates, each with its DAPIP id, OPEID, IPEDS unit id, state and an accredited flag. Cheap first step before edu/verify.

## Output

A ranked list of up to 15 (default 5) institution candidates, each containing: DAPIP institution ID, OPEID, IPEDS unit ID, full institution name, US state, and a boolean accredited flag — ordered by fuzzy name match relevance.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "name"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "name": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Institution name to screen for"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 15,
       "minimum": 1,
       "description": "Max candidates to return, default 5"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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