# Zinc Cross-Retailer Product Search

> Zinc Cross-Retailer Product Search is a paid API for AI agents from api.zinc.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-22).

Searches across multiple retailers to find buyable product listings with pricing, availability, ratings, and purchase URLs

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.zinc.com/agent/search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-22
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/zinc-cross-retailer-product-search-f7afe95d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_3wIVUfD9jt5uFTObYTkhG

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 zinc-cross-retailer-product-search-f7afe95d -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Zinc for 'wireless noise-cancelling headphones' and show me the top results with prices, star ratings, and which retailer is selling them so I can decide which one to order.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to discover buyable product listings across multiple retailers in a single call, especially as the first step in an automated procurement workflow where the returned product URLs will be passed to an order placement endpoint. Prefer this over retailer-specific search APIs when you want cross-retailer coverage without managing multiple integrations. Ideal for agent workflows that combine search → select → buy in sequence.

## Known failure modes

- Empty results array if no products match the search term
- Missing or null price/brand/image fields for listings where retailer doesn't expose that data
- Network timeout if retailer APIs are slow to respond
- Payment failure (402) if USDC balance is insufficient for the $0.01 per-call fee
- Invalid or malformed query string may return zero results

## How this service works

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## Output

Returns a status field, the echoed query string, and an array of product SKU objects — each containing the product title, retailer name, product URL (passable directly to /orders to purchase), brand, image URL, price in cents, star rating, number of reviews, and availability boolean. The results array defaults to empty if no matches are found.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "q"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "q": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Search term"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "title": "SearchResponse",
 "required": [
  "status",
  "query"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "title": "Query"
  },
  "status": {
   "type": "string",
   "title": "Status"
  },
  "results": {
   "type": "array",
   "items": {
    "type": "object",
    "title": "Sku",
    "required": [
     "url",
     "retailer"
    ],
    "properties": {
     "url": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Url"
     },
     "brand": {
      "anyOf": [
       {
        "type": "string"
       },
       {
        "type": "null"
       }
      ],
      "title": "Brand"
     },
     "image": {
      "anyOf": [
       {
        "type": "string"
       },
       {
        "type": "null"
       }
      ],
      "title": "Image"
     },
     "price": {
      "anyOf": [
       {
        "type": "integer"
       },
       {
        "type": "null"
       }
      ],
      "title": "Price"
     },
     "stars": {
      "anyOf": [
       {
        "type": "number"
       },
       {
        "type": "null"
       }
      ],
      "title": "Stars"
     },
     "title": {
      "anyOf": [
       {
        "type": "string"
       },
       {
        "type": "null"
       }
      ],
      "title": "Title"
     },
     "retailer": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Retailer"
     },
     "available": {
      "anyOf": [
       {
        "type": "boolean"
       },
       {
        "type": "null"
       }
      ],
      "title": "Available"
     },
     "num_reviews": {
      "anyOf": [
       {
        "type": "integer"
       },
       {
        "type": "null"
       }
      ],
      "title": "Num Reviews"
     }
    },
    "description": "A cross-retailer buyable listing. Pass `url` to /orders to buy it."
   },
   "title": "Results",
   "default": []
  }
 },
 "description": "Response from the cross-retailer search endpoint."
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/zinc-cross-retailer-product-search-f7afe95d/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.zinc.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.zinc.com/llms.txt)