# Random Cat Fact API

> Random Cat Fact API is a paid API for AI agents from engedi.digi-life17.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns a random fun fact about cats on each call

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://engedi.digi-life17.workers.dev/api/catfact
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/random-cat-fact-api-11f846d8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_r2pmc9XShvQ11GwBy_ID5

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 random-cat-fact-api-11f846d8
```

Example prompt: Give me a random fun fact about cats right now.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a quick, lightweight random cat fact for entertainment, chatbot responses, educational content, or trivia features. It requires no input parameters and returns immediately, making it ideal for simple fact-of-the-day widgets or conversational AI enrichment.

## Known failure modes

- Service unavailable returns a non-200 HTTP error
- Cached stale facts may repeat if cache is not invalidated
- Empty or null data field if upstream cat fact source is unreachable
- Payment failure returns HTTP 402 if USDC payment is not properly attached

## How this service works

Returns a cat fact as JSON. Includes the fact text, its length, and metadata about source and freshness.

## Output

A single random cat fact returned as a text string, along with metadata including whether the response was cached, the data source, a confidence score, and a last-updated timestamp.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {}
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "data": {
     "type": "object"
    },
    "_meta": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "cached": {
       "type": "boolean"
      },
      "source": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "confidence": {
       "type": "number"
      },
      "last_updated": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    },
    "success": {
     "type": "boolean"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/random-cat-fact-api-11f846d8/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from engedi.digi-life17.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/engedi.digi-life17.workers.dev/llms.txt)