# web-search-metasearch-api

> web-search-metasearch-api is a paid API for AI agents from obol-x402.fly.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status down (last checked 2026-09-15).

Performs a metasearch query across DuckDuckGo and Hacker News, merging and deduplicating results into a single response with title, URL, and snippet per result.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://obol-x402.fly.dev/v1/web/search
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: down
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/web-search-metasearch-api-965edd3a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_sy9dFF5N2FkpNeNbUyyQh

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-search-metasearch-api-965edd3a
```

Example prompt: Search across the web and Hacker News for 'open source LLM fine-tuning frameworks' and give me the top 5 results with titles, URLs, and snippets.

## When to prefer this

Prefer this endpoint when you need a quick, keyless, no-account web search that aggregates both general web results and Hacker News discussions in a single call with deduplication. Ideal for agents that need verifiable, signed results and want to avoid per-query API key management or upstream rate limits. Best for technical, startup, and news-adjacent queries where Hacker News coverage adds value.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or empty 'q' parameter returns a 400 bad request
- max_results outside 1-10 range may be clamped or rejected
- Upstream DuckDuckGo or Hacker News source unavailable may reduce result count
- Payment not processed results in 402 Payment Required
- Network timeout from the fly.dev host returns a 5xx error

## How this service works

Web search over x402 — metasearch across independent sources (DuckDuckGo + Hacker News) merged and deduped in ONE call: title + url + snippet per result. Served from our own box — no per-query upstream API cost, no rate-limit games, no API key, no account. GET ?q= [&max_results=1-10]. Free: GET /v1/web/search/preview. Cryptographically signed (Ed25519) — every response is independently verifiable via /.well-known/obol-pubkey.

## Output

A JSON array of merged, deduplicated search results from DuckDuckGo and Hacker News, each entry containing a title, URL, and snippet. Results are cryptographically signed with Ed25519 and independently verifiable via the provider's public key endpoint.

## 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",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "search query"
      },
      "max_results": {
       "type": "integer",
       "default": 5
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/web-search-metasearch-api-965edd3a/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from obol-x402.fly.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/obol-x402.fly.dev/llms.txt)