# Briefing Service – Hourly News Briefing JSON

> Briefing Service – Hourly News Briefing JSON is a paid API for AI agents from briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-19).

Returns one hourly ranked news briefing as structured JSON with sections for AI, labs, finance, sports, soccer, US, and world news

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/v1/briefings/:key
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-19
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/briefing-service-hourly-news-briefing-json-b21a8a8a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_pZC1ngjLu-qT-G12uqqDj

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 briefing-service-hourly-news-briefing-json-b21a8a8a
```

Example prompt: Can you grab the latest hourly news briefing and show me the top stories in the AI and finance sections?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a structured, multi-category ranked news briefing in JSON format on an hourly cadence, especially when you want to programmatically access specific topic areas (AI, finance, sports, soccer, US, world) without scraping or parsing raw news feeds. Ideal for agents that need fresh, pre-ranked headlines across a broad range of topics in a single call.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or missing briefing key returns an error response
- Briefing not yet generated for the current hour may return empty or stale data
- Payment failure (x402) if USDC not provided or insufficient balance
- Rate limiting if too many calls in a short period
- Network timeout if Cloudflare Worker is under load

## How this service works

One hourly ranked news briefing as structured JSON (keys: ai, labs, finance, sports, soccer, us, world)

## Output

A JSON object with top-level keys — ai, labs, finance, sports, soccer, us, world — each containing a ranked list of news stories for the current hour, including headlines and relevant metadata for each category.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/briefing-service-hourly-news-briefing-json-b21a8a8a/health.json
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