# Mekong Trade Intel News Headlines API

> Mekong Trade Intel News Headlines API is a paid API for AI agents from api.mekongtradeintel.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-26).

Fetches recent news headlines for a given topic by aggregating public RSS feeds from Google News and Hacker News

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.mekongtradeintel.com/news?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-26
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/mekong-trade-intel-news-headlines-api-b819efe2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_GkuL5MW5AklQVzbwbhP9t

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 mekong-trade-intel-news-headlines-api-b819efe2 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest news headlines about 'artificial intelligence regulation' from Google News and Hacker News?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a quick, no-account-required news headline lookup aggregating both general web news (Google News) and tech community news (Hacker News) for a given topic. Ideal for lightweight current-events queries where breadth across two major RSS sources is sufficient and real-time streaming or full article content is not required.

## Known failure modes

- Topic string shorter than 2 or longer than 100 characters returns a validation error
- No headlines found for highly niche or misspelled topics returns an empty result set
- Upstream RSS feed outages from Google News or Hacker News may result in partial or empty responses
- Payment of $0.001 USDC not fulfilled causes 402 response and no data returned

## How this service works

Headlines by topic from public RSS feeds (Google News + Hacker News). $0.002 per call. No account or API key needed.

## Output

A list of news headlines aggregated from Google News and Hacker News RSS feeds matching the submitted topic, typically including article titles, source names, and publication timestamps.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "topic": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Search topic, 2-100 characters"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/mekong-trade-intel-news-headlines-api-b819efe2/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.mekongtradeintel.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.mekongtradeintel.com/llms.txt)