# Agent Newsstand — Fetch Any Public URL as Markdown

> Agent Newsstand — Fetch Any Public URL as Markdown is a paid API for AI agents from api.agentnewsstand.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Fetches any public URL and returns its content as clean, token-efficient Markdown

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.agentnewsstand.com/v1/read
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agent-newsstand-fetch-any-public-url-as-markdown-ffa0f7ce
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ujaeoOBDc8vwuV7KDhmaP

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 agent-newsstand-fetch-any-public-url-as-markdown-ffa0f7ce
```

Example prompt: Can you fetch the content of https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/15/openai-news/ and give it to me as clean, readable markdown?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you have a specific URL and need its full page content as clean Markdown for downstream processing, summarization, or reading. Prefer this over a search endpoint when you already know the URL and want the full content rather than snippets. It is part of the Agent Newsstand platform so pairs naturally with their other financial and market data endpoints for reading linked source documents.

## Known failure modes

- URL is not publicly accessible (paywalled, login-gated, or private network) — returns error or empty content
- URL is malformed or invalid format — schema validation error
- Target server is slow or unresponsive — timeout error
- URL points to non-HTML content (PDF, binary file) — may return garbled or empty markdown
- Rate-limiting by the target server — fetch failure

## How this service works

Any public URL as clean Markdown

## Output

Returns the full content of the requested public URL rendered as clean Markdown, stripping away HTML structure, navigation, and boilerplate to expose the main readable text in a token-efficient format suitable for AI processing.

## 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",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "url"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "url": {
       "type": "string",
       "format": "uri",
       "description": "Public URL to fetch"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agent-newsstand-fetch-any-public-url-as-markdown-ffa0f7ce/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.agentnewsstand.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.agentnewsstand.com/llms.txt)