# Usaref North American Public Holidays

> Usaref North American Public Holidays is a paid API for AI agents from usaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-19).

Returns a list of public holidays for a specified North American country, sourced from official government publications, optionally filtered by year.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://usaref.dev/v1/holidays/:country?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-19
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/usaref-north-american-public-holidays-e82ece45
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_aJyE005Xwm8mgGBJzOYcf

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 usaref-north-american-public-holidays-e82ece45
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the official list of US public holidays for 2025 from a government-cited source so I can check which dates to exclude from our scheduling?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need authoritative, government-cited public holiday data for North American countries (US, Canada, Mexico) with traceable source URLs. Prefer it over generic holiday APIs when compliance, auditability, or official sourcing matters — e.g. payroll, legal, financial scheduling. The last_confirmed field makes it especially suitable for workflows that need to know data freshness.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported country code returns 404 or empty result — only North American countries (US, CA, MX, etc.) are covered
- Invalid or missing country path parameter returns a 400 or routing error
- Year filter with no matching data returns an empty array
- Stale data if government sources have not been re-confirmed recently (check last_confirmed field)
- Network or payment failure (x402 micropayment required at $0.002 USDC per call)

## How this service works

North American public holidays by country, cited to the official gazette or government source: date, name, source URL, last_confirmed. ?year=YYYY to filter. GET /v1/holidays/{country}, e.g. /v1/holidays/us.

## Output

A JSON array of public holiday records for the specified country, each containing the holiday date, official name, a source URL citing the government gazette or authority, and a last_confirmed timestamp. Optionally filtered to a single calendar year via ?year=YYYY.

## 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": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {},
     "additionalProperties": true
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/usaref-north-american-public-holidays-e82ece45/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from usaref.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/usaref.dev/llms.txt)