# task-radar-x402 News Headlines API

> task-radar-x402 News Headlines API is a paid API for AI agents from task-radar-x402.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-31).

Fetches the latest news headlines matching a keyword query, returning title, link, source, published date, and snippet via Bing News RSS

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://task-radar-x402.vercel.app/api/news?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-31
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/task-radar-x402-news-headlines-api-cd4b6769
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_PonjKxrlJOKPLvT5-wCZz

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 task-radar-x402-news-headlines-api-cd4b6769
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest news headlines about 'Federal Reserve interest rates' — give me up to 20 results with titles, sources, and publication dates?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need fast, keyword-driven news headline retrieval with structured metadata (title, source, date, snippet) and don't need full article text. It is ideal for current-events monitoring, media coverage tracking, and news briefing generation. Prefer this over general web search when you specifically want news articles ranked by recency. It is cost-effective at $0.01 per call and returns up to 30 results, making it suitable for lightweight news aggregation tasks.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or empty 'q' parameter returns no results or an error
- Limit parameter outside 1-30 range may be rejected or clamped
- Bing News RSS outage causes upstream fetch failure
- Very obscure or misspelled keywords return empty result sets
- Rate limiting or payment failure (402) blocks the call

## How this service works

Latest news headlines by keyword: title, link, source, published date, snippet (Bing News RSS). 0.01 USDC/call on Base.

## Output

Returns a list of news articles matching the keyword query, each containing the article title, URL link, news source name, publication date/time, and a short text snippet summarizing the article content. Up to 30 results can be returned per call (default 15).

## 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": {
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "const": "GET"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Keyword(s)"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "1-30 (default 15)"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/task-radar-x402-news-headlines-api-cd4b6769/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from task-radar-x402.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/task-radar-x402.vercel.app/llms.txt)