# Brave News Search via Locus x402

> Brave News Search via Locus x402 is a paid API for AI agents from brave.x402.paywithlocus.com, paid per call via x402, $0.035/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Searches Brave's independent news index for recent articles matching a query, with optional country filtering and freshness controls, billed per-call via x402 micropayments.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://brave.x402.paywithlocus.com/brave/news-search
- Price: $0.035/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/brave-news-search-via-locus-x402-cdd926f8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_XQf3wbOdcGu0dQRApwSbw

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 brave-news-search-via-locus-x402-cdd926f8 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Brave News for the latest articles about the EU AI Act from the past week — give me up to 15 results from European sources.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically need news content (rather than general web pages, images, or video) and want results from Brave's independent, privacy-first index rather than Google or Bing. It is ideal for agents that need current-events grounding, headline monitoring, or journalism research without tracking. The freshness and country filters make it well-suited for geo-specific or time-bounded news queries. Prefer this over general web search endpoints when the user's intent is clearly about news articles.

## Known failure modes

- Empty results if the query matches no recent indexed news articles
- Rate limiting or payment failure if x402 micropayment is not properly authorized
- Invalid country code returns an error or falls back to global results
- Freshness parameter misconfiguration (invalid format) may return an error or be ignored
- Result count outside 1–50 range may be clamped or rejected

## How this service works

Independent web search — web, news, images, videos, AI answers, and LLM context. Privacy-first search from a large independent index.

## Output

A JSON object containing a 'data' field with news search results from Brave's index (articles, titles, URLs, publication dates, snippets), along with a 'payment' field confirming the settled USDC amount and a 'request' field with a unique request ID and status URL for tracking.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "q": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "count": {
   "type": "number"
  },
  "country": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "freshness": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {},
  "payment": {
   "scheme": "exact",
   "settledUsdc": "0.001000",
   "authorizedMaxUsdc": "0.001000"
  },
  "request": {
   "id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
   "statusUrl": "/requests/00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000"
  },
  "success": true
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/brave-news-search-via-locus-x402-cdd926f8/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from brave.x402.paywithlocus.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/brave.x402.paywithlocus.com/llms.txt)