# World Bank Indicator Catalog Search

> World Bank Indicator Catalog Search is a paid API for AI agents from agent402.tools, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-13).

Search the World Bank's catalog of 1,400+ indicators by keyword, returning indicator codes for use in downstream data queries.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agent402.tools/api/world-bank-search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/world-bank-indicator-catalog-search-fa0921b5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_QnwXn8FylSOjBrSc8Ze4C

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 world-bank-indicator-catalog-search-fa0921b5
```

Example prompt: Search the World Bank indicator catalog for indicators related to 'inflation' and return up to 10 results so I can pick the right indicator code.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to discover or identify the correct World Bank indicator code(s) before fetching actual time-series data. This is the catalog search step, not the data retrieval step — prefer it when the user knows a topic but not the specific indicator code, or when you need to enumerate available indicators in a domain like health, GDP, or education.

## Known failure modes

- No indicators found for obscure or misspelled keyword (empty results list)
- rows parameter out of range 1-20 causes validation error
- Missing required 'q' query parameter returns 400 error
- Network timeout if World Bank upstream is slow

## How this service works

Search the World Bank indicator catalog (1,400+ indicators across GDP, demographics, health, environment, education, etc.) by keyword. Returns indicator codes you can feed into /api/world-bank-indicator.

## Output

A list of matching World Bank indicator records including indicator codes, names, and descriptions — up to the requested number of rows — which can be passed directly into /api/world-bank-indicator for actual data retrieval.

## 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",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Search keyword"
      },
      "rows": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Results to return, 1-20 (default 5)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "query",
      "count",
      "indicators"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "count": {
       "type": "integer"
      },
      "query": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "indicators": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
         "code": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "name": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "sourceNote": {
          "type": "string"
         }
        }
       }
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "count": 5,
  "query": "inflation",
  "indicators": [
   {
    "code": "FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG",
    "name": "Inflation, consumer prices (annual %)",
    "sourceNote": "Inflation as measured by the consumer price index…"
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/world-bank-indicator-catalog-search-fa0921b5/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agent402.tools](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agent402.tools/llms.txt)