# x402 Social Intel – Image Search

> x402 Social Intel – Image Search is a paid API for AI agents from social-hub-v5.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.08/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Searches for images across social media platforms and the web using paid, AI-enhanced scraping, payable via USDC on Base mainnet.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://social-hub-v5.vercel.app/api/images/search
- Price: $0.08/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-social-intel-image-search-7865b04a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_YwFCPE_rF39JyiJgeYSpP

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 x402-social-intel-image-search-7865b04a -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search for images of 'sustainable sneakers' across social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter and return me the top results with their URLs and metadata.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to search for images specifically from social media platforms (TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube) or the web and are comfortable paying per-call in USDC on Base mainnet via the x402 protocol. Best for social media intelligence, brand monitoring, or content research workflows that require cross-platform image discovery rather than a single platform's native API.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or missing search query returns error or empty results
- Payment failure on Base mainnet blocks the request
- Rate limiting or platform blocking may yield partial or no results
- Platform-specific scraping restrictions may reduce result quality
- Ambiguous queries may return loosely related or irrelevant images

## How this service works

Paid social media intelligence API — TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Website scraper. All endpoints EVM-only on Base mainnet.

## Output

Returns a list of image results including image URLs, associated metadata such as platform source, post context, and potentially engagement data, scraped from social media platforms and web sources matching the query.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-social-intel-image-search-7865b04a/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from social-hub-v5.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/social-hub-v5.vercel.app/llms.txt)