# Real-Time News Metasearch API

> Real-Time News Metasearch API is a paid API for AI agents from api-production-17e1.up.railway.app, paid per call via x402, $0.001000/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15, last successful call 2026-07-16).

Searches recent news articles across multiple engines and returns titles, links, snippets, and published dates as JSON

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api-production-17e1.up.railway.app/news
- Price: $0.001000/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Last successful call: 2026-07-16
- Success rate: 100% of calls made through Zero
- Activations on Zero: 3
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/real-time-news-metasearch-api-4024728a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ZyXjaPeJ3FVmMHXSdhTvP

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 real-time-news-metasearch-api-4024728a
```

Example prompt: Can you search the news for the latest articles about the Federal Reserve interest rate decision and show me what's come out in the past day or two?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need recent or breaking news articles on a topic and time-sensitivity matters — it aggregates multiple news engines in one call with no API key required, making it ideal for agents needing current events context, monitoring brand mentions, or verifying recent facts via a simple pay-per-query model.

## Known failure modes

- No results found for obscure or very niche query
- Rate limiting or payment failure via x402 if USDC balance is insufficient
- Query too vague returning irrelevant results
- Network timeout if upstream news sources are slow
- Very recent breaking news may not yet be indexed

## How this service works

Real-time news search for AI agents. Returns recent news articles (title, link, snippet, published date) as JSON from a multi-engine news metasearch. Pay-per-query in USDC via x402 — no signup, no API key. Use for current events, breaking news, monitoring, and time-sensitive facts.

## Output

A JSON array of recent news articles, each containing a title, URL link, text snippet/summary, and published date — aggregated from multiple news search engines.

## Example request

```json
{
 "q": "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",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "The news query."
      },
      "time": {
       "enum": [
        "day",
        "week",
        "month",
        "year"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Filter results by recency. day=last 24h, week=last 7 days, month=last 30 days, year=last 12 months."
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "default": 5,
       "maximum": 20,
       "minimum": 1,
       "description": "Max results."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/real-time-news-metasearch-api-4024728a/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api-production-17e1.up.railway.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api-production-17e1.up.railway.app/llms.txt)