# HoldsUp Episodes Feed

> HoldsUp Episodes Feed is a paid API for AI agents from holdsup.app, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-20).

Returns a paginated list of published fact-checked podcast episodes, sorted newest first, with optional filtering by category, show, or speaker.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://holdsup.app/api/v1/episodes
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-20
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/holdsup-episodes-feed-2fd1eb35
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_JWAsXHssTWU5JLP8ANZgy

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 holdsup-episodes-feed-2fd1eb35
```

Example prompt: Show me the latest fact-checked episodes on HoldsUp in the 'politics' category — grab the first 20 results.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to browse or filter HoldsUp's catalog of published, fact-checked podcast episodes. It is ideal for discovering recent content, filtering by subject category, finding all episodes for a particular show or speaker, or paginating through the full episode archive. Prefer this over a general web search when you need structured, verified episode metadata from the HoldsUp platform.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid category slug format returns a 400 or empty result
- Non-existent show id returns empty episode list
- Page number beyond available results returns empty array
- Rate limiting or payment failure returns 402 or 429
- Invalid pagination parameters (limit out of 1–100 range) return validation error

## How this service works

Published fact-checked episodes, newest first, with optional filters by category slug, show id or speaker slug. Paged.

## Output

A paginated JSON array of published, fact-checked podcast episodes sorted newest first. Each episode record typically includes metadata such as title, publication date, associated show, speaker(s), category, and fact-check status. The response includes pagination information to navigate additional pages.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "page": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 100000,
       "minimum": 0,
       "description": "Page number, from 0"
      },
      "show": {
       "type": "integer",
       "minimum": 0,
       "description": "Show id, as listed by list_shows"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 100,
       "minimum": 1,
       "description": "Episodes per page, 1 to 100, default 60"
      },
      "speaker": {
       "type": "string",
       "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._~-]{0,199}$",
       "description": "Speaker slug"
      },
      "category": {
       "type": "string",
       "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._~-]{0,199}$",
       "description": "Category slug; includes its direct children"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "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/holdsup-episodes-feed-2fd1eb35/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from holdsup.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/holdsup.app/llms.txt)