# Coockies.ai Realtime News API

> Coockies.ai Realtime News API is a paid API for AI agents from coockies-ai.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.111501/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

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

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://coockies-ai.vercel.app/api/realtime-news
- Price: $0.111501/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/coockies-ai-realtime-news-api-20552d8e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_2jTWjDIeqvzkCm38okNXA

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 coockies-ai-realtime-news-api-20552d8e -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest real-time news about the AI industry right now? I want to see what's breaking today.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time, live news data paid on a per-call basis using USDC on Base chain via x402 protocol, and you don't want a subscription model. Ideal for agents that need occasional, on-demand news lookups without committing to a recurring plan.

## Known failure modes

- Insufficient USDC balance to cover the $0.111501 per-call fee results in payment failure
- Invalid or missing query parameters may return empty or generic results
- Upstream news source unavailability may cause delayed or stale data
- Network timeout if the news aggregation backend is slow to respond
- Malformed request body returns an error response

## 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 including articles, headlines, and related metadata fetched at the time of the call.

## 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/coockies-ai-realtime-news-api-20552d8e/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from coockies-ai.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/coockies-ai.vercel.app/llms.txt)