# TVmaze People Search

> TVmaze People Search is a paid API for AI agents from clonecho.builda.company, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Search for actors and TV people by name using the TVmaze database, returning matching person records as JSON.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://clonecho.builda.company/x402/s/tvmaze-people
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/tvmaze-people-search-f6251610
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_kHoXLYWy9cJXfddK4Cema

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 tvmaze-people-search-f6251610 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you search for Bryan Cranston in the TVmaze people database and pull up his profile?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to look up actors, TV personalities, directors, or crew members by name within the entertainment/television domain. Prefer this over generic web search when you need structured, machine-readable person metadata sourced from the TVmaze database, especially for downstream use in casting lookups, show staffing queries, or enriching TV-related data.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned for obscure or misspelled names
- Empty array if the person is not in the TVmaze database
- Missing or null fields for less-documented individuals
- Rate limiting or payment failure if $0.02 USDC per call is not processed
- Non-specific or ambiguous names may return many unrelated results

## How this service works

Search actors and TV people by name (param q). Query: ?q= Returns JSON.

## Output

A JSON array of person objects from TVmaze matching the search query, including fields such as person ID, name, birthday, gender, country, image URL, and links to their TVmaze profile and external IDs (IMDB, TheTVDB, etc.).

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/tvmaze-people-search-f6251610/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from clonecho.builda.company](https://www.zero.xyz/host/clonecho.builda.company/llms.txt)