# WickedAPI Web Search

> WickedAPI Web Search is a paid API for AI agents from api.wickedapi.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-28).

Performs a real-time web search returning ranked results with title, URL, snippet, and relevance score, plus an optional synthesized answer, for general or news topics.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.wickedapi.com/v1/web-search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-28
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/wickedapi-web-search-0356f25a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_6vccX1SaPj8yhLVvAksxw

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 wickedapi-web-search-0356f25a
```

Example prompt: Search the web for the latest news about the Federal Reserve interest rate decision and give me a synthesized summary along with the top ranked sources.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an agent needs real-time, ranked web search results with scored snippets and an optional synthesized answer, especially for news or general queries where up-to-date information matters. Prefer it over static knowledge bases or LLM memory when freshness is critical. The $0.01 per-call pricing makes it cost-effective for ad-hoc lookups without a subscription commitment.

## Known failure modes

- Empty results if query is too narrow or topic has no indexed coverage
- Synthesized answer may be unavailable or lower quality for very niche queries
- Rate limits or payment failures if USDC balance is insufficient for the $0.01 per-call fee
- Query type mismatch if an unsupported topic type is specified
- Latency spikes during high traffic or when crawling fresh news content

## How this service works

Real-time web search for agents: ranked results with title, URL, snippet and score, plus an optional synthesized answer. Pay per search; general or news topic.

## Output

An ordered list of web search results, each containing a title, URL, snippet, and relevance score, plus an optional synthesized natural-language answer aggregating the top results. Results reflect real-time web content at query time.

## 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": 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/wickedapi-web-search-0356f25a/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.wickedapi.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.wickedapi.com/llms.txt)