# WhatChUNeed Macro Economic Indicator API

> WhatChUNeed Macro Economic Indicator API is a paid API for AI agents from whatchuneed.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.2/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Retrieves macroeconomic indicator data (e.g. GDP, inflation, unemployment) via a natural-language input query, returning structured economic data.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://whatchuneed.vercel.app/api/macro/indicator
- Price: $0.2/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/whatchuneed-macro-economic-indicator-api-ba8df5af
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_SDU-03-uciS6YPGoGdbbm

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 whatchuneed-macro-economic-indicator-api-ba8df5af -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest GDP growth rate and inflation rate for the United States from the macro indicator endpoint?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need quick, pay-per-call lookups of macroeconomic indicators (GDP, CPI, unemployment, interest rates, etc.) without maintaining a subscription to a dedicated economic data provider. Especially useful for AI agents that only occasionally need macro data and want to pay per query via x402 USDC micropayments.

## Known failure modes

- Vague or ambiguous indicator name in input may return unexpected data or an error
- Unsupported country or region may yield empty results
- Network or upstream data provider outage may cause failure
- Malformed input string may return a generic error response
- Data may be lagged or unavailable for very recent periods

## How this service works

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## Output

Returns a result object containing the requested macroeconomic indicator data (values, units, time period, country/region) along with a status string indicating success or failure of the query.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Request input"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "result": {
   "type": "object",
   "description": "Response data"
  },
  "status": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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