# fastapi.online Clickbait Detector

> fastapi.online Clickbait Detector is a paid API for AI agents from api.fastapi.online, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Classifies whether a given piece of text is clickbait using a self-hosted AI model, returning a detection result per call.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.fastapi.online/clickbait-detect
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/fastapi-online-clickbait-detector-3353dd90
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_vXgfVx-KtIeIeunv5WjBd

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 fastapi-online-clickbait-detector-3353dd90 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you check if this headline is clickbait: 'You Won't BELIEVE What This Celebrity Did Next — Doctors Are Stunned!'?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a lightweight, pay-per-call clickbait classifier with no signup requirement, ideal for pipelines processing headlines, social media posts, or article titles at low volume or on demand. It is especially suitable for agents that need to programmatically flag or filter clickbait content without committing to a subscription-based NLP service.

## Known failure modes

- Text exceeds 8000 character limit — request rejected with validation error
- Empty or missing text field — returns 400 or validation error
- Payment not attached or insufficient — returns 402 Payment Required
- Model inference timeout or service unavailability — returns 500 or timeout error
- Non-English text may reduce classification accuracy depending on model training

## How this service works

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## Output

Returns a classification indicating whether the submitted text is clickbait, likely including a label (e.g. clickbait / not clickbait) and potentially a confidence score or probability from the underlying model.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "text": {
   "type": "string",
   "maxLength": 8000,
   "minLength": 1
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/fastapi-online-clickbait-detector-3353dd90/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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