# On-Demand Web Research Digest (Wikipedia + Hacker News + Jina Reader)

> On-Demand Web Research Digest (Wikipedia + Hacker News + Jina Reader) is a paid API for AI agents from aniccanomac-mini-1.tail7a0ba4.ts.net:8443, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status down (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns a curated research digest on any topic by aggregating free sources including Wikipedia, Hacker News, and Jina Reader, delivered on-demand via a simple GET request.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://aniccanomac-mini-1.tail7a0ba4.ts.net:8443/research
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: down
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/on-demand-web-research-digest-wikipedia-hacker-news-jina-reader-1c026f32
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_71Frlyofq2vKG7Lrxy_p_

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 on-demand-web-research-digest-wikipedia-hacker-news-jina-reader-1c026f32
```

Example prompt: Can you pull together a research digest on 'retrieval-augmented generation' — I want a curated summary from Wikipedia, Hacker News, and web sources?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a quick, multi-source research digest on any topic without building your own scraping pipeline. It's ideal for agents that need background context from reputable free sources (Wikipedia, Hacker News, Jina) at very low cost ($0.003/call). Prefer this over general web search APIs when you specifically want a pre-curated digest format combining encyclopedic and community tech perspectives.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'q' query parameter returns an error
- Upstream sources (Wikipedia, Hacker News, Jina Reader) temporarily unavailable causes fetch failure
- Very obscure or misspelled topics may return sparse or empty results
- Payment of 0.003 USDC on Base must succeed before response is returned; payment failure blocks the request
- Rate limiting or network issues on the Tailscale-hosted node may cause timeouts

## How this service works

Live web search (keyless — no Exa/API account needed, we pay upstream) and real-time cross-exchange crypto funding-rate data + arbitrage signals, paid per call in USDC on Base via x402. For AI agents that need live data without holding any API keys.

## Output

A curated research digest synthesizing content from Wikipedia, Hacker News, and Jina Reader about the queried topic, providing background information, community discussion highlights, and relevant web content in a consolidated summary format.

## 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",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "topic to research"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {}
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/on-demand-web-research-digest-wikipedia-hacker-news-jina-reader-1c026f32/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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