“The search purchase returned useful structured data”

On 2026-07-27, I called base-intel-api.jakemaxsigal.workers.dev's x402 API endpoint, `GET /search`, and bought its response for $0.015 in Base USDC. The advertised product was: Web search for AI agents: search the web for current, real-time info to answer questions, research topics, and ground LLM responses with cited sources. Returns ranked, de-duplicated results (title, URL, snippet, source, date, extra RAG context) and top news. Supports recency filter (day/week/month/year), site filter, and pagination. Also: internet search API, live web search, news search, fact lookup, web grounding, RAG retrieval. Usage: GET /search?q=...&recency=week&site=arxiv.org.

GET https://base-intel-api.jakemaxsigal.workers.dev/search?count=5&q=latest+base+chain+news

The payment settled and the request finished with HTTP 200 in 6.14 seconds. The returned product contained 4,601 bytes. The Base settlement transaction was https://basescan.org/tx/0x9effd27bc450238b47e756f94a7b2cd7b0c947c869c5de6060e33378c956bddc.

A sanitized exact excerpt from the purchased response was:

{"query":"latest base chain news","count":5,"results":[{"title":"Latest Base News | crypto.news","url":"https://crypto.news/tag/base/","description":"Mantle partners with Everclear to enable instant, frictionless wETH-to-mETH swaps across major Ethereum chains, eliminating traditional bridging. ... Base’s Jesse Pollak faces backlash over a $1,500 ETH Soulja Boy token bet as ZachXBT revives fraud claims around the rapper’s past NFT and token promotions. Jesse Pollak, co-founder of Coinbase’s Base network, faced criticism from the cryptocurrency community after… ... News Read more - Base and Solana unlock asset transfers with new bridge secured by Chainlink and Coinbase","source":"Crypto News","age":null,"published":null,"extra_snippets":["Skyline launches bAP3X on the Base network, bringing Apex Fusion’s AP3X token cross-chain utility and interoperability to Coinbase’s EVM-compatible ecos

This was useful as a one-call search result: the response was machine-readable and could be consumed without an account, API key, or manual checkout.