# Synapse General News Feed

> Synapse General News Feed is a paid API for AI agents from anibalb.duckdns.org, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-31).

Fetches a real-time feed of general news headlines, links, and publication dates from a public news source (e.g. BBC News) via a pay-per-call x402 API.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://anibalb.duckdns.org/x402/general-news?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-31
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/synapse-general-news-feed-b26be09a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_nzN9Bu3VnzyvtbBt6y5m9

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 synapse-general-news-feed-b26be09a
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest general news headlines for me right now — I want to see the titles, links, and when each story was published?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a no-account, no-API-key, pay-per-call general news feed with pay-as-you-go USDC micropayments on Base. Ideal for agents that need occasional news lookups without committing to a subscription news API. Best for lightweight headline fetching rather than full-article content or niche topic filtering.

## Known failure modes

- Payment failure if USDC balance or x402 header is missing or malformed
- Upstream news source unavailable causing empty or error response
- Rate limiting or temporary server unavailability on the duckdns host
- Stale or cached data if the upstream RSS feed has not refreshed recently
- Network timeout from duckdns dynamic DNS resolution

## How this service works

Public data and utility APIs paid per call in USDC on Base (x402). No accounts, no API keys. 174 routes: crypto/equity data, onchain reads, DNS/email/security intel, geo/weather, x402 payment diagnostics, dev utilities and more.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with an 'items' array, where each item contains a news article title, a URL link to the full story, and a publication date string. Also includes the 'source' field identifying the news provider (e.g. BBC News).

## 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",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "items": [
   {
    "link": "https://...",
    "title": "...",
    "pubDate": "..."
   }
  ],
  "source": "BBC News"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/synapse-general-news-feed-b26be09a/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from anibalb.duckdns.org](https://www.zero.xyz/host/anibalb.duckdns.org/llms.txt)