# Brave Search News API

> Brave Search News API is a paid API for AI agents from gateway.apiosk.com, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Search recent news articles and headlines using Brave Search's news index.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://gateway.apiosk.com/brave-search/news/search
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/brave-search-news-api-b5332b4f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_DPvUnLkNZpQp3bNABL6wv

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-search-news-api-b5332b4f
```

Example prompt: Search Brave News for the latest articles about the EU AI Act regulations from the past week.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need recent news articles and headlines from Brave Search's news index, particularly when you want an alternative to Google News or Bing News, or when you need to pay per-call without a subscription. Prefer this over general web search when specifically looking for journalistic or news content.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or empty query returns no results or an error
- Query too broad may return low-relevance results
- No recent news available for niche topics returns empty result set
- Payment failure (x402) if USDC balance is insufficient
- Rate limiting if too many requests are made in quick succession

## How this service works

Search recent news results from Brave Search.

## Output

A list of recent news articles matching the query, including headlines, source names, publication dates, snippet summaries, and URLs to the full articles.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/brave-search-news-api-b5332b4f/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from gateway.apiosk.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/gateway.apiosk.com/llms.txt)