# Machine Shop Batch Normalize Text

> Machine Shop Batch Normalize Text is a paid API for AI agents from api.pay-forge.online, paid per call via x402, $0.006/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-20).

Normalizes and cleans up to 100 text strings in a single batch call, returning standardized text results.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.pay-forge.online/v1/batch-normalize-text?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.006/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-20
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/machine-shop-batch-normalize-text-e0d26e0d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_iOcgIaOpJJ-_yU8iPzFEx

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 machine-shop-batch-normalize-text-e0d26e0d -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you normalize these 50 messy text strings for me — they have inconsistent casing, extra whitespace, and weird punctuation — and give me back clean, standardized versions of each one?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to normalize multiple text strings in a single API call (up to 100 at once), especially when you want cost-efficient batch processing at $0.006 USDC per call rather than single-item normalization. It is particularly useful for pre-processing pipelines, data cleaning before storage or comparison, and standardizing heterogeneous text from scraped or user-submitted sources.

## Known failure modes

- More than 100 items submitted — request rejected due to maxItems constraint
- Non-string items in the array — may cause schema validation errors
- Empty items array — returns empty results array
- Malformed JSON body — returns 400 error
- Payment not provided or insufficient — returns 402 Payment Required

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## Output

Returns a JSON array of result objects, each containing a 'text' field with the normalized version of the corresponding input string. The order matches the input array, allowing direct index-based mapping back to the originals.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "items": {
   "type": "array",
   "items": {
    "type": "string"
   },
   "title": "Items",
   "maxItems": 100
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "results": [
   {
    "text": "Hello world"
   },
   {
    "text": "A"
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/machine-shop-batch-normalize-text-e0d26e0d/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.pay-forge.online](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.pay-forge.online/llms.txt)