# Newstex Trending Story Search

> Newstex Trending Story Search is a paid API for AI agents from mcp.newstex.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-17).

Returns a paginated page of metadata-only search results for trending news stories from the Newstex licensed content network.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://mcp.newstex.com/x402/trending?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-17
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/newstex-trending-story-search-b88dc2e7
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_cQwT2yFx-uWTFh__dMABT

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 newstex-trending-story-search-b88dc2e7
```

Example prompt: Search the Newstex network for trending stories about artificial intelligence — show me up to 10 results.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to discover or search for news story metadata across the Newstex licensed content network — especially when you want to browse trending stories or search by keyword before deciding which full articles to retrieve. Prefer this over the full-story endpoint to minimize cost and latency when only metadata (headlines, authors, dates) is needed. Use the sibling full-story endpoint only after identifying specific stories of interest.

## Known failure modes

- Empty results if query matches no indexed stories
- Pagination cursor invalid or expired returns an error
- Query exceeds 512 character limit returns a validation error
- Limit parameter outside 1-20 range returns a validation error
- Payment failure (x402) if USDC not authorized
- Rate limiting if too many requests are made in quick succession

## How this service works

Newstex MCP Network: one page of metadata-only story search results.

## Output

Returns an array of story metadata objects (titles, authors, publication info, etc.) without full article body text, along with a total result count and an opaque pagination cursor for fetching subsequent 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",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 512,
       "minLength": 1,
       "description": "Full-text query."
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 20,
       "minimum": 1
      },
      "cursor": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Opaque pagination cursor from a prior page."
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "hits": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object"
       }
      },
      "next_cursor": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "result_count": {
       "type": "integer"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/newstex-trending-story-search-b88dc2e7/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from mcp.newstex.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/mcp.newstex.com/llms.txt)