# SiteCheck Web Intel – News Search Across the Web

> SiteCheck Web Intel – News Search Across the Web is a paid API for AI agents from api.webintel-api.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-25).

Searches for recent news articles across Google, Bing, and GDELT by keyword, returning URLs, titles, snippets, publishers, and publication timestamps

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.webintel-api.workers.dev/api/search/news-across-the-web?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.003/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-news-search-across-the-web-18414f73
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ldb9A-2Dcido0kjwI1tVF

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-news-search-across-the-web-18414f73
```

Example prompt: Search for the latest news about 'OpenAI GPT-5' across Google, Bing, and GDELT and give me the top 10 results with titles, snippets, and publication dates.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need aggregated news search results from multiple public search engines (Google, Bing, GDELT) simultaneously without requiring an API key or subscription. It is especially useful for AI agents that need pay-per-call news retrieval with no setup overhead, or when you want GDELT coverage alongside traditional search engines for broader global news. Prefer this over single-engine news APIs when breadth of coverage across sources matters, or when your agent requires pay-as-you-go pricing with no monthly commitment.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required query parameter 'q' returns a validation error
- Query exceeding 200 characters is rejected
- Search engine backend unavailable causes partial or empty engine results
- No matching articles returns an empty items array
- Invalid 'engines' value causes engine filtering to fail or be ignored
- Rate-limiting or network issues on the worker may return a 5xx error

## How this service works

Search news across the web in one call: Google News RSS, Bing News RSS and GDELT's Context 2.0 API (public, no keys), merged, de-duplicated by headline and sorted newest first. Each item has title, publisher, URL, time and which engines found it, plus a per-engine status. Headlines and snippets only, no full text. Google links are Google News redirect links.

## Output

A JSON object containing the query string, total result count, an array of news items (each with URL, title, snippet, publisher, publication timestamp, and which engines found it), per-engine stats (engine name, result count, success status), and the timestamp of when the search was performed.

## 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": "Search words (1 to 200 characters)"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "How many items, 1 to 60 (default 20)"
      },
      "engines": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Comma-separated: google, bing, gdelt (default all three)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "q": "climate",
  "count": 10,
  "items": [
   {
    "url": "https://www.wvasfm.org/2026-10-23/amid-trumps-assaults-on-dei-how-one-university-is-elevating-black-students",
    "title": "Amid Trumps assaults on DEI, how one university is elevating Black students",
    "foundBy": [
     "gdelt"
    ],
    "snippet": "A climate of disappearing diversity programs Following the Supreme Court decision in 2023 banning affirmative action, the Trump administration has launched civil rights investigations targeting programs that single out a specific race — such as a scholarship program for Black students or an office d…",
    "published": "2026-10-23T09:32:33.000Z",
    "publisher": "wvasfm.org"
   },
   {
    "url": "https://cyprus-mail.com/2026/10/23/prountzos-nicosia-now-accounts-for-40-per-cent-of-cypruss-gdp",
    "title": "Prountzos: Nicosia now accounts for 40 per cent of Cyprus GDP",
    "foundBy": [
     "gdelt"
    ],
    "snippet": "Tourism, on which other districts depend more heavily, is more exposed to climate change and regional developments, he said.",
    "published": "2026-10-23T09:32:26.000Z",
    "publisher": "cyprus-mail.com"
   }
  ],
  "engines": [
   {
    "ok": true,
    "count": 105,
    "engine": "google"
   },
   {
    "ok": true,
    "count": 12,
    "engine": "bing"
   }
  ],
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-23T09:38:56.132Z"
 }
}
```

## More

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