# Zero-Bloat Live Web Search & Tech News Grounding

> Zero-Bloat Live Web Search & Tech News Grounding is a paid API for AI agents from alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).

Executes live Google News RSS and HackerNews Algolia searches and returns clean, ad-free, token-pruned results for a given query

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev/v1/news-extractor?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/alpha-stream-agentdiet-dev-zero-bloat-live-web-search-tech-news-f9e3f42d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Yp4ra6VssyDGfXvF87dA4

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 alpha-stream-agentdiet-dev-zero-bloat-live-web-search-tech-news-f9e3f42d
```

Example prompt: Search for the latest news and HackerNews discussions about OpenAI's new model releases and give me clean, ad-free results I can actually use.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs to ground its responses with real-time, current news or tech community discussions — especially when token efficiency matters and clean, ad-free text is required. Prefer this over general web scrapers when the target content is news articles or HackerNews posts, and when you want pre-filtered, low-noise results rather than raw HTML. Best for agents that need to augment knowledge cutoff limitations with live information at low cost ($0.01/call).

## Known failure modes

- Missing or empty 'query' parameter returns a 400 validation error
- Google News RSS or HackerNews Algolia upstream outage may cause partial or empty results
- Very niche or obscure queries may return zero results
- Payment not completed (HTTP 402) blocks access if USDC micropayment is not provided
- Rate limiting or quota exhaustion may return 429 errors

## How this service works

Executes live Google News RSS + HackerNews Algolia search queries and returns clean, token-pruned results with zero ad bloat. (Live x402 v2, IETF MPP & MCP endpoint at https://alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev/v1/news-extractor)

## Output

Returns a clean, token-pruned list of news articles and HackerNews posts matching the query, including headlines, source URLs, publication timestamps, and snippet text — with ads and boilerplate stripped out to minimize token usage

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "query"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "minLength": 1,
   "description": "Search query for live news, technical articles, and web results"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/alpha-stream-agentdiet-dev-zero-bloat-live-web-search-tech-news-f9e3f42d/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev/llms.txt)