# ManyLives Text Redact

> ManyLives Text Redact is a paid API for AI agents from api.manylives.me, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-10).

Redacts personally identifiable information (PII) from text, replacing names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses with labelled placeholders

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.manylives.me/paid/text/redact?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-10
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/manylives-text-redact-f65cc9e1
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_vYhEKZocugoV6zD-bv2Qm

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 manylives-text-redact-f65cc9e1 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you redact all the personal information from this text before I share it: 'Please call Jane Citizen on 0400 000 000 or email jane@example.com about 12 Example St.'?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a pay-per-call, no-account-required PII redaction service that operates via the x402 micropayment protocol on Base. It is ideal for AI agents that handle user-submitted text and need to sanitize it before storage, sharing, or downstream processing, especially when GDPR, CCPA, or general privacy compliance is a concern. At $0.01 USDC per call it suits high-volume, cost-sensitive pipelines that don't want a subscription.

## Known failure modes

- Text exceeds 20,000 character limit — request rejected
- Missing or empty 'text' field — validation error
- Payment not received or insufficient USDC — 402 Payment Required
- Ambiguous or non-standard PII formats may not be detected and remain in output
- Non-English names or locale-specific phone formats may be missed

## How this service works

Pay-per-call tools for people building AI agents: live web search and page contents, point-in-time crypto market data and news for backtests (no lookahead), verifiable track records of 1,000 crypto strategies locked on the Base network, company profiles, quick AI and batch prices. Ask us to turn a public website into a JSON endpoint. Pay per call, no account, free trial.

## Output

A JSON object containing a 'redacted' field with the cleaned text (PII replaced by labelled tokens such as [NAME], [EMAIL], [PHONE]) and a 'removed' array listing the categories of PII that were detected and removed (e.g. ['name', 'email', 'phone', 'address']).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "text": {
   "type": "string",
   "examples": [
    "Please call Jane Citizen on 0400 000 000 or email jane@example.com about 12 Example St."
   ],
   "description": "the text (required, max 20,000 chars)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "removed": [
   "name",
   "email"
  ],
  "redacted": "Contact [NAME] at [EMAIL]."
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/manylives-text-redact-f65cc9e1/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.manylives.me](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.manylives.me/llms.txt)