# Script Master Labs NIH Grants Search API

> Script Master Labs NIH Grants Search API is a paid API for AI agents from mcp-x402.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Search U.S. NIH grant awards by research topic, institute, and fiscal year, paid per call in USDC via x402

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://mcp-x402.onrender.com/x402/nih-grants
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/script-master-labs-nih-grants-search-api-a4fafc82
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_9CeLgY2FtXJCJOPxpep3v

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 script-master-labs-nih-grants-search-api-a4fafc82
```

Example prompt: Search NIH grants related to 'mRNA vaccine technology' from the NIAID institute for fiscal year 2024 and return the top 10 results.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need programmatic, pay-per-call access to NIH grant award data filtered by research topic, specific NIH institute, or fiscal year — especially in automated agent workflows where you want to pay only for the calls you make using USDC on Base via x402 rather than managing a subscription or API key. Prefer it over direct NIH Reporter API access when you need a simple, agent-friendly interface with built-in micropayment support.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'query' parameter returns a 400 or validation error
- Payment not settled in USDC on Base via x402 results in 402 Payment Required response
- Invalid NIH institute abbreviation may return empty results or error
- Fiscal year outside available data range may return no results
- Overly broad query may return too many low-relevance results
- Service may be unavailable if the Render.com deployment is cold-started or down

## How this service works

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## Output

Returns a list of NIH grant records matching the search query, potentially including grant title, award details, funding agency/institute, fiscal year, principal investigator, and research abstract information sourced from U.S. federal NIH grant databases.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "query"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "default": 10,
       "maximum": 25,
       "minimum": 1
      },
      "query": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Research topic keywords (required)."
      },
      "agency": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "NIH institute abbreviation (e.g. NCI, NHLBI, NIAID, NINDS)."
      },
      "fiscal_year": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "Fiscal year filter (default: current year)."
      }
     }
    }
   }
  },
  "output": {
   "properties": {
    "example": {}
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "example": {}
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/script-master-labs-nih-grants-search-api-a4fafc82/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from mcp-x402.onrender.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/mcp-x402.onrender.com/llms.txt)