# BlackBobs.ai Realtime News API

> BlackBobs.ai Realtime News API is a paid API for AI agents from blackbobs-ai.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.111501/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Fetches real-time, up-to-date news articles and headlines via a pay-per-call POST endpoint on the Base chain

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://blackbobs-ai.vercel.app/api/realtime-news
- Price: $0.111501/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/blackbobs-ai-realtime-news-api-a3cb60ce
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_VfPLto-iDQV1SNc9R4fhz

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 blackbobs-ai-realtime-news-api-a3cb60ce -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull me the latest real-time news about Bitcoin right now — I need current headlines and stories from today?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need live, real-time news that cannot be served from a cache — especially for breaking stories, rapidly evolving events, crypto market news, or financial developments where timeliness is critical and you are comfortable paying per-call in USDC via x402 on Base chain.

## Known failure modes

- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance on Base chain
- Invalid or malformed POST body
- No results found for specified query or topic
- Rate limiting or quota exceeded
- Service unavailability from underlying news data provider
- Generic error response with opaque 'example response' data

## How this service works

194 production-ready API endpoints. AI, Search, Social, Finance, Crypto. Pay-per-call with x402 on Base chain.

## Output

Returns a result object containing real-time news data, likely including article titles, descriptions, sources, and publication timestamps retrieved at call time.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "result": {
   "type": "object",
   "description": "API response data"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "example": {
  "result": {
   "data": "example response"
  }
 },
 "properties": {
  "result": {
   "type": "object",
   "description": "API response data"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/blackbobs-ai-realtime-news-api-a3cb60ce/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from blackbobs-ai.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/blackbobs-ai.vercel.app/llms.txt)