# MangaDex Author Search

> MangaDex Author Search is a paid API for AI agents from clonecho.builda.company, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Search MangaDex manga authors and artists by name, returning author IDs and profile attributes

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://clonecho.builda.company/x402/s/mangadex-author-search
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/mangadex-author-search-28f11315
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_4JEXqVmtMjiv-mBVlCkoy

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 mangadex-author-search-28f11315 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you look up the MangaDex author profile for 'Eiichiro Oda' and get me his author ID and any profile details?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to resolve a manga author or artist's name to their MangaDex UUID, or when you need to retrieve profile metadata about a manga creator. Prefer this over generic web search when you specifically need structured MangaDex author data for use in downstream MangaDex API calls.

## Known failure modes

- No results found if author name is misspelled or does not exist on MangaDex
- Ambiguous results if the name query matches multiple authors
- Empty result set for obscure or newly added authors
- Payment failure if USDC funds are insufficient for the $0.02 per-call fee
- Malformed query returns an error or empty response

## How this service works

MangaDex API: search manga authors/artists by name, returning author id and profile attributes, by name param. Query: ?name= Returns JSON.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the matched author's MangaDex UUID, name, profile attributes such as biography, social links, and other metadata associated with the author or artist record on MangaDex.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/mangadex-author-search-28f11315/health.json
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