# Software Engineering Stack Exchange Search

> Software Engineering Stack Exchange Search is a paid API for AI agents from clonecho.builda.company, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Searches Software Engineering Stack Exchange questions by keyword, returning results ranked by votes as JSON.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://clonecho.builda.company/x402/s/softwareengineering-search
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/software-engineering-stack-exchange-search-afa944e6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_pFO6cBX2vphLjTcLi2M-F

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 software-engineering-stack-exchange-search-afa944e6 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Software Engineering Stack Exchange for the top-voted questions about dependency injection and show me the results.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to find community-vetted software engineering knowledge, best practices, or design discussions from Stack Exchange's Software Engineering site, particularly when vote ranking is important for quality filtering.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or empty q parameter returns no results or an error
- Network timeout if Stack Exchange is unavailable
- No matching questions found for obscure or misspelled queries
- Rate limiting or payment failure if x402 payment is not processed

## How this service works

Search Software Engineering Stack Exchange questions for {q}, ranked by votes. Query: ?q= Returns JSON.

## Output

A JSON array of Software Engineering Stack Exchange questions matching the query, ranked by vote count, including question titles, vote scores, and related metadata.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/software-engineering-stack-exchange-search-afa944e6/health.json
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