# ScrapeMole News Search

> ScrapeMole News Search is a paid API for AI agents from search.scrapemole.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-19).

Searches for recent news articles by keyword and returns headlines, URLs, publishers, timestamps, and images from live public news feeds

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://search.scrapemole.workers.dev/v1/news?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-19
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/scrapemole-news-search-a22e6ef0
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_PObITw25lv2YZ2wTmsJL6

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 scrapemole-news-search-a22e6ef0
```

Example prompt: Search for the latest news about Nvidia from the past week — give me 10 results sorted by date, in the US market.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured, timestamped news articles with publisher attribution and direct article URLs — especially when freshness matters (hour/day/week/month filters) or when you need to search a specific locale/market. It is better than a generic web search endpoint when the task is explicitly news-oriented and recency is important. The automatic multi-source fallback (Bing RSS → Brave → Mwmbl) makes it more reliable than single-source news APIs. Pay-per-call with no account or API key required makes it ideal for low-friction agent pipelines.

## Known failure modes

- Query string missing or empty — returns 400 error, no charge
- No articles found for query — returns empty articles array, no charge
- Upstream sources temporarily unavailable — fallback chain exhausted, may return empty result
- Invalid freshness or sort enum value — returns 400 validation error
- Page out of range (>5) — may return empty results
- Payment not provided or insufficient — returns 402 Payment Required before any work is done

## How this service works

Pay-per-call search for agents: web search results (title, URL, snippet, domain, position; up to 20 per call, markets, safe search, paging), news search (headline, direct URL, publisher, published time, image; sort by date, freshness hour/day/week/month) and search autocomplete suggestions. Live from public search pages and feeds with automatic fallbacks (Bing RSS, Brave Search, Mwmbl, Google suggest, DuckDuckGo); every response names the source used. No keys, no accounts. USDC via x402; failed and empty calls are never charged.

Payments: x402 v2, scheme "exact", USDC on Base (eip155:8453). The payment is verified before the work and settled only when the response is 200. Terms: https://search.scrapemole.workers.dev/terms

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the query, page, sort order, freshness filter, count, and source name (e.g. 'Bing News (public RSS)') plus a sourceUrl. The articles array contains up to 20 items each with: title, url, domain, snippet, position (1-based), published (ISO 8601 timestamp), and publisher name.

## 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",
       "examples": [
        "nvidia"
       ],
       "description": "News query (max 400 chars), e.g. a company, person, topic; site:reuters.com works on Bing."
      },
      "page": {
       "type": "string",
       "default": "1",
       "description": "Result page (1-5); each page is \"count\" results."
      },
      "sort": {
       "enum": [
        "relevance",
        "date"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "default": "relevance",
       "description": "relevance (default) or date (newest first)."
      },
      "count": {
       "type": "string",
       "default": "10",
       "description": "Number of results (1-20)."
      },
      "market": {
       "type": "string",
       "default": "en-US",
       "description": "Market/locale as language-COUNTRY, e.g. en-US, en-GB, de-DE, fr-FR, ja-JP (applied on the Bing source)."
      },
      "freshness": {
       "enum": [
        "any",
        "hour",
        "day",
        "week",
        "month"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "default": "any",
       "description": "Maximum article age."
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "page": 1,
  "sort": "relevance",
  "count": 1,
  "query": "nvidia",
  "source": "Bing News (public RSS)",
  "articles": [
   {
    "url": "https://www.reuters.com/technology/…",
    "title": "Nvidia announces $150 billion stock buyback",
    "domain": "reuters.com",
    "snippet": "Nvidia on Monday announced…",
    "position": 1,
    "published": "2026-10-12T21:05:00.000Z",
    "publisher": "Reuters"
   }
  ],
  "freshness": "any",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=nvidia"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/scrapemole-news-search-a22e6ef0/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from search.scrapemole.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/search.scrapemole.workers.dev/llms.txt)