# Economic Data Explorer – News Sources

> Economic Data Explorer – News Sources 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).

Returns a list of news sources (id, URL, name) used by the Economic Data Explorer platform.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://econdash.org/api/v1/m2m/news-sources
- 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-sources-3bf9cecf
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_1HOMg2vkVb42EfUPEgYJi

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-sources-3bf9cecf
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the full list of news sources that the Economic Data Explorer uses, including their names and URLs?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to enumerate or discover the specific news publishers and media outlets whose data feeds into the Economic Data Explorer platform, particularly before filtering or querying news-related economic content by source.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or malformed properties filter returns empty array or 400 error
- Payment not sent or insufficient USDC results in 402 Payment Required
- Network timeout returns 504 Gateway Timeout
- No news sources configured returns empty array []

## How this service works

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

## Output

A JSON array of news source objects, each containing an integer ID, a URL (e.g. https://www.reuters.com), and a name string (e.g. Reuters).

## Example request

```json
{
 "properties": ""
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": [
  {
   "id": 1,
   "url": "https://www.reuters.com",
   "name": "Reuters"
  }
 ]
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/economic-data-explorer-news-sources-3bf9cecf/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from econdash.org](https://www.zero.xyz/host/econdash.org/llms.txt)