# Google News Search via Serper.dev (x402)

> Google News Search via Serper.dev (x402) is a paid API for AI agents from agentdata-api.sander-van-aard.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Search Google News and return top results with title, URL, snippet, publish date, and source — pay-per-call at $0.004 USDC on Base, no API key needed.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://agentdata-api.sander-van-aard.workers.dev/news/search
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/google-news-search-via-serper-dev-x402-9a5b8c15
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_8abbSpLewvNwKcm6FXfv7

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 google-news-search-via-serper-dev-x402-9a5b8c15 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Google News for the latest 5 articles about the EU AI Act in English and give me the titles, sources, and publish dates.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need Google News-quality search results (not general web pages) with structured metadata including publish dates and source names, at the lowest per-call price ($0.004) with no account or API key setup. Prefer it over the sibling /web/search endpoint when recency and news-specific sourcing matter. Ideal for agents that need to check current events, monitor press coverage, or surface recent articles on any topic without a subscription.

## Known failure modes

- Zero results returned when query is too niche or no recent articles exist — valid honest response, not an error
- Payment failure if USDC balance on Base is insufficient — call is rejected before execution
- Invalid country or language code causes malformed request or empty results
- num parameter out of range (outside 1-10) may cause validation error
- Upstream Serper.dev outage may cause temporary unavailability

## How this service works

Google News search for AI agents at $0.010 per call, from the same Serper.dev source as /web/search. Send a query, get back compact JSON: top news results with position, title, url, snippet, publish date and source. Tune with num (1-10 results), country and language (2-letter codes). Zero results is a valid, honest answer. Pay per call in USDC on Base, no account, no API key.

## Output

A compact JSON array of news results, each containing position rank, article title, URL, text snippet, publish date, and source name. Returns up to 10 results (configurable via num). Zero results is a valid response when no matching news is found.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object"
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "headers": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/google-news-search-via-serper-dev-x402-9a5b8c15/health.json
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