# ScrapFly News Search API

> ScrapFly News Search API is a paid API for AI agents from scravfly.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.15/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Searches the web for news articles matching a given query and returns structured results

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://scravfly.vercel.app/api/news/search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.15/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/scrapfly-news-search-api-3f3e5865
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_v6CE63vmoWJ5Ft7S5R6NY

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 scrapfly-news-search-api-3f3e5865 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search for the latest news articles about the Federal Reserve interest rate decision and bring back what you find.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to programmatically search for news articles on a specific topic, keyword, or entity using a pay-per-request model via x402 on Base chain — ideal for AI agents that need on-demand news retrieval without managing API keys or subscriptions.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or vague query string returns no results or irrelevant results
- Query with no recent news coverage returns empty data array
- Rate limiting or payment failure returns error response
- Network timeout for slow news index lookups
- Malformed request body missing required 'query' field returns 400 error

## How this service works

69 endpoints for data, content generation, and web scraping. Pay per request via x402 on Base chain.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a success boolean and a data object containing news search results matching the query, typically including article titles, sources, URLs, and publication metadata.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "query"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "query"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "success"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "data": {
   "type": "object"
  },
  "success": {
   "type": "boolean"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/scrapfly-news-search-api-3f3e5865/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from scravfly.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/scravfly.vercel.app/llms.txt)