# BLS Unemployment Data Lookup

> BLS Unemployment Data Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from lookup.bustercall.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Fetches U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) unemployment data via a paid API endpoint.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://lookup.bustercall.workers.dev/economics/bls/unemployment
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/lookup-bustercall-workers-dev-8f520b5a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_LZCfuuhzjRxBI7ZP7y--h

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 lookup-bustercall-workers-dev-8f520b5a -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the latest U.S. unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics? Pull the most recent BLS unemployment figures for me.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative U.S. unemployment data directly sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Prefer this over web scraping or third-party aggregators when you need official BLS figures, historical series data, or programmatic access to unemployment statistics within an automated agent workflow.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not provided or insufficient — 402 Payment Required returned
- Invalid BLS series ID or unsupported query parameters — 400 Bad Request
- BLS upstream data unavailable or rate-limited — 503 Service Unavailable
- Malformed POST body — 400 Bad Request

## How this service works

Fetches U.S. BLS unemployment data via a paid API endpoint.

## Output

Returns U.S. BLS unemployment data in JSON format, including unemployment rate figures, BLS series data, and associated time-period metadata sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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