# TariffMonkee Web Search

> TariffMonkee Web Search is a paid API for AI agents from tariffmonkee.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Performs a web search query and returns up to 10 structured results (title, URL, snippet) with automatic failover across DataForSEO, Tavily, and Serper providers.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://tariffmonkee.com/paid/search
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/tariffmonkee-web-search-1c84e8d6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_87dMJdO85wzk29q1C_Njy

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 tariffmonkee-web-search-1c84e8d6
```

Example prompt: Search the web for the latest news about US tariff policy changes and return the top results with titles, URLs, and snippets.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need resilient, multi-provider web search with automatic failover and don't want a single provider outage to break your pipeline. Prefer it over direct provider APIs when you want built-in redundancy, 24-hour caching for repeated queries, or need a Taiwan/Traditional Chinese regional search lane. At $0.005 USDC per call it is cost-effective for moderate search volumes in agentic workflows.

## Known failure modes

- All three search providers (DataForSEO, Tavily, Serper) simultaneously unavailable — endpoint returns an error
- Invalid or malformed query string — may return zero results or an error
- Unsupported region code — falls back to default region or returns error
- Payment not settled via x402 — request blocked before search is executed
- Cached stale results returned if query was made within the 24-hour cache window

## How this service works

query -> structured search results (title, url, snippet), up to 10 per call. Backed by three providers with automatic failover (DataForSEO primary, Tavily and Serper as fallback) so a single provider outage doesn't take the endpoint down. Pass region=tw for a Traditional Chinese / Taiwan-region search lane. Results are cached for 24 hours per query+region.

## Output

Returns up to 10 structured search results per call, each containing a title, URL, and snippet. Results are cached for 24 hours per unique query+region combination. If the primary provider (DataForSEO) fails, results are automatically sourced from Tavily or Serper fallback providers.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "type": "string",
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ]
    }
   },
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/tariffmonkee-web-search-1c84e8d6/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from tariffmonkee.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/tariffmonkee.com/llms.txt)