# Agent Newsstand — Paywall Unlock / Page Reader

> Agent Newsstand — Paywall Unlock / Page Reader is a paid API for AI agents from api.agentnewsstand.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Fetches and returns the full text content of a public URL, bypassing paywalls where possible, for AI agent consumption

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.agentnewsstand.com/v1/unlock
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agent-newsstand-paywall-unlock-page-reader-08227a75
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_jat8tKGYswMwEW3M7Druc

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-paywall-unlock-page-reader-08227a75
```

Example prompt: Fetch and read the full article text at https://www.wsj.com/articles/some-article — unlock it even if it's behind a paywall, and give me up to 50000 characters of the content.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when your agent needs to read the full text of a specific web page or article — especially when the page may be behind a paywall — and you want a clean, token-efficient text extraction without managing browser automation. Prefer this over generic web scrapers when paywall bypass is needed, or when you want to avoid the overhead of a headless browser. The x402/USDC micropayment model (no API keys required) makes it ideal for autonomous agents that need to call it on-demand without pre-registration.

## Known failure modes

- URL is inaccessible or returns a non-200 status — endpoint may return an error or empty content
- Paywall cannot be bypassed for certain premium publishers — partial or no content returned
- max_chars limit exceeded by actual content — content will be truncated at the specified limit
- Invalid or malformed URL provided — validation error returned
- Rate limiting or network timeouts for slow-loading pages

## How this service works

15 pay-per-call endpoints for AI agents: tokenized-asset candles, SEC filings, earnings, US macro, web search, page reader, paywall unlock, screenshots. USDC on Base via x402. No API keys, no signup.

## Output

Returns the extracted readable text content of the requested URL, up to the specified max_chars limit. Content is token-efficient and cleaned for AI consumption, stripped of HTML boilerplate. Paywalled pages are unlocked where possible.

## 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"
      },
      "max_chars": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 200000,
       "minimum": 1000
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agent-newsstand-paywall-unlock-page-reader-08227a75/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)