# Tavily Crawl via Locus x402

> Tavily Crawl via Locus x402 is a paid API for AI agents from tavily.x402.paywithlocus.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-10).

Crawls a website starting from a given URL, following links up to a specified depth and breadth, and extracts page content with optional natural language guidance.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://tavily.x402.paywithlocus.com/tavily/crawl?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-10
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/tavily-crawl-via-locus-x402-9d0f84af
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_84Byi2u8eUJYmssF4NgMB

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 tavily-crawl-via-locus-x402-9d0f84af -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Crawl docs.example.com up to 3 levels deep, visiting at most 20 pages, and use advanced extraction — focus on API reference pages only.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to extract content from multiple linked pages of a website in a single operation, rather than scraping individual URLs one at a time. It is ideal for building knowledge bases, auditing site content, or indexing documentation. Prefer this over single-URL extraction when breadth and depth of crawl matter, and over a generic search endpoint when you want comprehensive coverage of a specific domain rather than keyword-matched results.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unreachable starting URL returns an error in the data field
- Crawl limit or depth set too low may result in incomplete site coverage
- Rate limiting or bot-blocking by the target site may reduce pages crawled
- Malformed instructions parameter may result in unfocused or unexpected crawl paths
- Timeout on very large sites if limit is set too high
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance prevents job execution

## How this service works

AI-optimized web search, content extraction, site mapping, and crawling API.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the crawled page data (content extracted from each visited URL), payment settlement details (USDC amount charged), and a request ID with a status URL for checking async job progress.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "url": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "limit": {
   "type": "number"
  },
  "max_depth": {
   "type": "number"
  },
  "max_breadth": {
   "type": "number"
  },
  "instructions": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "extract_depth": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {},
  "payment": {
   "scheme": "exact",
   "settledUsdc": "0.001000",
   "authorizedMaxUsdc": "0.001000"
  },
  "request": {
   "id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
   "statusUrl": "/requests/00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000"
  },
  "success": true
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/tavily-crawl-via-locus-x402-9d0f84af/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from tavily.x402.paywithlocus.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/tavily.x402.paywithlocus.com/llms.txt)