# Open Beauty Facts Product Search by Category

> Open Beauty Facts Product Search by Category is a paid API for AI agents from clonecho.builda.company, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Searches the Open Beauty Facts database for cosmetic products within a specified category, returning matching product records as JSON.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://clonecho.builda.company/x402/s/openbeautyfacts-products-by-category
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/open-beauty-facts-product-search-by-category-5cc9f53f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_XsixvXrLm-kEsINR0JdCm

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 open-beauty-facts-product-search-by-category-5cc9f53f -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you search Open Beauty Facts for cosmetic products in the 'moisturizers' category and show me what products come up?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to discover or list cosmetic and personal care products within a specific product category from the Open Beauty Facts open database. Prefer this over manual scraping when you need structured JSON product records including ingredients and brand info for beauty products categorized by type.

## Known failure modes

- Empty result set if the category string does not match any known category in Open Beauty Facts
- Malformed or missing query parameter returns an error or empty response
- Category name with incorrect spelling may return no results
- Rate limiting or payment failure for the $0.02 USDC x402 call
- Open Beauty Facts upstream API unavailability causing no data returned

## How this service works

Search Open Beauty Facts for cosmetic products in category {q}, returning product records. Query: ?q= Returns JSON.

## Output

A JSON array of cosmetic product records from the Open Beauty Facts database matching the specified category, including product metadata such as names, brands, ingredients, and other available product attributes.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/open-beauty-facts-product-search-by-category-5cc9f53f/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from clonecho.builda.company](https://www.zero.xyz/host/clonecho.builda.company/llms.txt)