# Monexus Terminal Podcast Transcript Search

> Monexus Terminal Podcast Transcript Search is a paid API for AI agents from terminal.themonexus.com, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).

Full-text search across 368 business/finance podcast episode transcripts using FTS5, returning relevant episode matches for a query string.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://terminal.themonexus.com/api/v1/transcripts/search
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/monexus-terminal-podcast-transcript-search-796fa3ba
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_oA-vtJYp6_FU-lt3wCVf_

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## 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 monexus-terminal-podcast-transcript-search-796fa3ba -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the Monexus podcast transcript archive for episodes mentioning 'OpenAI valuation' and return the top 5 results.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to search the content of business and finance podcast transcripts by keyword or topic. It is specifically suited for finding what was discussed in a curated corpus of 368 episodes, making it ideal for researching company mentions, financial topics, investment themes, or notable guests discussed in podcast format. Prefer this over general web search when you want sourced, episodic audio content from a structured finance media corpus.

## Known failure modes

- Query string shorter than 3 characters returns an error or empty result
- Limit parameter exceeding 20 is rejected or capped
- No matching episodes found returns an empty results array
- Payment of $0.002 USDC not provided or fails via x402 protocol causes 402 error
- Malformed POST body causes 400 bad request

## How this service works

Monexus Terminal API — Search 368 episodes of business/finance podcast corpus (FTS5). Params: q (>=3 chars), limit (<=20).

## Output

Returns a list of matching podcast episode results (up to 20) from the 368-episode business/finance corpus, with relevant transcript excerpts or metadata indicating where the query terms appear, ranked by FTS5 relevance.

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