# SiteCheck Web Intel: Defector Articles Feed

> SiteCheck Web Intel: Defector Articles Feed is a paid API for AI agents from api.webintel-api.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-25).

Fetches recent articles from Defector's public RSS feed with optional keyword filtering on title or summary

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.webintel-api.workers.dev/api/search/defector-articles?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-25
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/sitecheck-web-intel-defector-articles-feed-7fff11ac
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_u_75ek9B-EC-Dx8KNhC6t

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 sitecheck-web-intel-defector-articles-feed-7fff11ac
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest Defector articles mentioning 'baseball' — show me up to 15 results with titles, authors, and summaries?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically need content from Defector — a worker-owned sports and culture publication known for longform journalism. It is ideal for monitoring Defector output, researching coverage of specific sports topics, or surfacing recent articles from specific authors. It is not a general web search; it only indexes defector.com's RSS feed.

## Known failure modes

- No articles match the keyword filter — returns empty items array
- Query exceeds 200 characters — validation error
- Limit out of range (below 1 or above 30) — validation error
- Defector RSS feed temporarily unavailable — upstream fetch error
- Network timeout reaching defector.com

## How this service works

Defector articles from its public RSS feed (keyword filter on title/summary/tags). Latest items only; excerpts are as published in the feed. Public feed, no key.

## Output

A JSON object containing the keyword query used, a count of returned items, and an array of articles each with a link, title, author, summary, publication timestamp, and category tags. Also includes the RSS source URL and the timestamp when the feed was last checked.

## 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": [],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Words that must all appear in the title or summary (optional, max 200 characters)"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "How many items, 1 to 30 (default 10)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "q": "",
  "count": 3,
  "items": [
   {
    "link": "https://defector.com/let-us-know-if-youve-seen-sponges-stolen-guitars",
    "title": "Let Us Know If You’ve Seen Sponge’s Stolen Guitars",
    "author": "Dave McKenna",
    "summary": "Sponge got their guitars stolen on Tuesday. I know this because the band’s publicist, Leo Lavoro, is going above and beyond his job description by trying to get them back. My email address must still be on a distribution list somewhere, thanks to my previous life as a music critic, because I receive…",
    "published": "2026-10-22T20:24:02.000Z",
    "categories": [
     "Arts And Culture",
     "Life's Rich Pageant"
    ]
   },
   {
    "link": "https://defector.com/brian-evenson-will-mess-with-your-head",
    "title": "Brian Evenson Will Mess With Your Head",
    "author": "Adam Fleming Petty",
    "summary": "Brian Evenson’s first book, a story collection titled Altmann’s Tongue , came out in 1994. It was not widely reviewed. The few notices the book did receive in the media ranged from the curious, to the baffled, to the outright disturbed. “In a capsule review, the Los Angeles Times nervously conceded …",
    "published": "2026-10-22T18:23:23.000Z",
    "categories": [
     "Arts And Culture",
     "Books"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "source": "https://defector.com/feed",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-23T09:38:44.721Z"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/sitecheck-web-intel-defector-articles-feed-7fff11ac/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.webintel-api.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.webintel-api.workers.dev/llms.txt)