# Web Access Gateway — General Web Search

> Web Access Gateway — General Web Search is a paid API for AI agents from web-access-gateway.mattskowronis.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Searches the current public web and returns 5 ranked results with compact source excerpts in a fixed JSON schema.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://web-access-gateway.mattskowronis.workers.dev/v1/search
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/web-access-gateway-general-web-search-d8ce1e9b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ur8jlwgh_EhsmXvGO8gXI

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 web-access-gateway-general-web-search-d8ce1e9b -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the web for 'best practices for securing Kubernetes clusters in 2024' and give me the top 5 results with short excerpts from each source.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a quick, general-purpose web search returning exactly 5 ranked results with compact excerpts in a predictable JSON schema — ideal for AI agents that need structured, consistent output rather than raw HTML. Prefer it over the sibling endpoints when the query is general (not location-specific, not limited to recent news, not restricted to products or company research). If you need news from the last 7 days specifically, the 'recent news' sibling endpoint is more appropriate; if you need local business info, prefer the local search sibling.

## Known failure modes

- Query too short or empty — rejected by schema validation (minLength:1)
- Query exceeds 500 characters — rejected by schema validation (maxLength:500)
- No web results found for highly niche or malformed queries — may return empty result set
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance — request blocked before execution
- Transient upstream search provider errors — may return 5xx or partial results
- Rate limiting if called too rapidly in succession

## How this service works

Return 5 current ranked web results with compact source excerpts in a fixed JSON schema.

## Output

A fixed JSON array of 5 ranked web results, each containing a title, URL, and compact excerpt from the source page, allowing the agent to quickly assess the most relevant current web coverage for the query.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "maxLength": 500,
   "minLength": 1
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/web-access-gateway-general-web-search-d8ce1e9b/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from web-access-gateway.mattskowronis.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/web-access-gateway.mattskowronis.workers.dev/llms.txt)