# Economic Data Explorer - News Article Lookup

> Economic Data Explorer - News Article Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from econdash.org, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Retrieves a specific news article by ID from the Economic Data Explorer platform covering economic, demographic, and health indicators.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://econdash.org/api/v1/m2m/news/%7Bnews_id%7D
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/economic-data-explorer-news-article-lookup-f3b6aa5e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_fiftjmm1GFXwRi7vTaahs

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 economic-data-explorer-news-article-lookup-f3b6aa5e
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the Economic Data Explorer news article with ID 4821 for me?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you have a specific news article ID from the econdash.org platform and need to retrieve its associated economic, demographic, or health indicator metadata. Best suited for agents navigating or cross-referencing content within the Economic Data Explorer ecosystem across 265 indicators and 298 countries.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or missing news_id returns 404 or empty result
- Non-existent article ID returns empty array
- Malformed news_id path parameter may return 400 error
- Payment not completed (402) blocks access to response
- Rate limiting or quota exceeded returns 429

## How this service works

Interactive dashboard for exploring economic, demographic, and health indicators across countries. 265 indicators, 298 countries.

## Output

Returns a JSON array of economic indicator records associated with the requested news article, including fields like indicator code (e.g. NY.GDP.MKTP.CD), indicator name (e.g. GDP in current USD), unit, data source (e.g. World Bank), category (e.g. Economic Growth), and frequency (e.g. yearly).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": [
  {
   "code": "NY.GDP.MKTP.CD",
   "name": "GDP (current US$)",
   "unit": "USD",
   "source": "World Bank",
   "category": "Economic Growth",
   "frequency": "yearly"
  }
 ]
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/economic-data-explorer-news-article-lookup-f3b6aa5e/health.json
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