---
title: "Encyclopedia search after Bing Search API: Wikipedia titles, URLs and snippets (pay per call in USDC via x402, no key)"
method: POST
path: "/x402/api/search"
tags: ["Afterwren"]
---

# Encyclopedia search after Bing Search API: Wikipedia titles, URLs and snippets (pay per call in USDC via x402, no key)

`POST /x402/api/search`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://afterwren.cybermaxtools.com`
- URL: `https://afterwren.cybermaxtools.com/x402/api/search`
- Auth: none required

Full-text search over English Wikipedia: title, url, snippet, updated, words. A grounded-facts search for agents, not a whole-web index.

Pay per call with x402: $0.002 per call in USDC on Base. No key, no account: an unpaid call returns 402 with the payment requirements; retry with the X-PAYMENT (x402 v1) or PAYMENT-SIGNATURE (v2) header.

## Request body

- object
  - `q` string, required
  - `limit` integer

## Response `200`

Results (same field names as the bulk version's dataset records) plus the free-tier limits.

- object

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid input
- `401`: Invalid or revoked API key
- `402`: Payment Required: x402 payment requirements (body: x402Version 1 accepts[]; header PAYMENT-REQUIRED: x402 v2).
- `504`: Took too long; ask for fewer items

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