# PadelMaps News Search

> PadelMaps News Search is a paid API for AI agents from padelmaps.org, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, not verified (last probed 2026-10-23); live alternatives: Superhighway News Search ($0.001) and Superhighway News Search ($0.001).

Agents call it through Zero, which pays per call: no API key and no wallet of your own. New accounts start with $5.

Live alternatives for the same use case:
- [Superhighway News Search](https://www.zero.xyz/c/superhighway-news-search-6808c693) ($0.001)
- [Superhighway News Search](https://www.zero.xyz/c/superhighway-news-search-7b6780c5) ($0.001)

Search for news articles by keyword or topic via a paid x402 API endpoint

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://padelmaps.org/api/x402-tools/news/search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-23
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/padelmaps-org-68d04bdf
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_L6EdVe1HqHEua7x0n88Wf

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 padelmaps-org-68d04bdf -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search for news articles about the latest AI regulation developments and return the top results.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to search for news articles by keyword or topic and are already operating within the PadelMaps x402 payment ecosystem. It is a general-purpose news search tool hosted on a padel sports platform, likely aggregating from a third-party news API. Prefer this when you need a pay-per-use news search without a subscription.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or missing query returns no results or a validation error
- Payment failure due to insufficient USDC balance blocks the request
- Query too broad returns irrelevant or overwhelming results
- No matching articles found for very specific or obscure queries
- Rate limiting if too many requests are made in quick succession

## How this service works

Search news articles

## Output

A list of news articles matching the search query, likely including article titles, URLs, publication dates, and brief descriptions or snippets.

## Example request

```json
{
 "limit": 10,
 "query": "artificial intelligence"
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
     "required": [
      "query"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "Max articles (default 10, max 100). Aliases: 'page_size', 'pageSize'"
      },
      "query": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Search query. Alias: 'q'"
      },
      "sort_by": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "relevancy, popularity, or publishedAt (default). Alias: 'sortBy'"
      }
     }
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "count": {
       "type": "integer"
      },
      "query": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "cached": {
       "type": "boolean"
      },
      "articles": {
       "type": "array"
      },
      "total_results": {
       "type": "integer"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/padelmaps-org-68d04bdf/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from padelmaps.org](https://www.zero.xyz/host/padelmaps.org/llms.txt)