# ScrapFly News Search API

> ScrapFly News Search API is a paid API for AI agents from test-scrapfly.orbonomy.xyz, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Searches for news articles matching a query and returns results via a pay-per-request x402 API

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://test-scrapfly.orbonomy.xyz/api/search/news
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/scrapfly-news-search-api-ade354d7
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_8W4xInU4l6Uk_3ySaAtgf

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-ade354d7 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search for the latest news about the US Federal Reserve interest rate decisions and return 10 results.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to programmatically retrieve news articles on a specific topic and want to pay per request without a subscription, especially in agentic workflows that need current news data. Prefer this over general web search APIs when you specifically need news content and are operating in a crypto-native or x402-payment-enabled environment.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'query' parameter returns an error
- Payment failure if x402 USDC transaction on Base chain is not completed
- Query returns no results if the topic is too niche or obscure
- Service unavailable if the underlying ScrapFly scraping infrastructure is down
- Rate limiting or quota exceeded if too many requests are made
- Invalid 'num' parameter type (non-numeric) causes a validation 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 article results matching the query, including article titles, sources, and other metadata scraped from news sources.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "query"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "num": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "num"
  },
  "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-ade354d7/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from test-scrapfly.orbonomy.xyz](https://www.zero.xyz/host/test-scrapfly.orbonomy.xyz/llms.txt)