# The Bot Wire Headlines

> The Bot Wire Headlines is a paid API for AI agents from thebotwire.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-13).

Retrieves real-time curated news headlines across markets, crypto, tech, world, business, and energy categories, refreshed every 5 minutes and searchable in milliseconds.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/headlines?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/the-bot-wire-headlines-99cb1389
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_UUMjrdm4hae4_GHfHn1ZX

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 the-bot-wire-headlines-99cb1389
```

Example prompt: Pull the top 10 headlines from The Bot Wire from the last 2 hours, filtered to the crypto category — I want to see what's moving in the market right now.

## When to prefer this

Prefer this endpoint when an AI agent needs fast, curated, multi-category real-time news without requiring API key setup or subscriptions — ideal for lightweight pay-per-call workflows using x402/USDC on Base. Best when the agent needs freshness guarantees (5-minute refresh cycle) across financial, crypto, tech, and business news simultaneously. Less suited for deep full-text search, historical news archives, or highly niche topic queries beyond the six curated categories.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not included or rejected — 402 response with no articles returned
- Invalid category string — may return empty results or an error
- Freshness window format not recognized (e.g. typos like '2hours' instead of '2h') — may fall back to default or return error
- Limit set to 0 or very large number — may return empty array or be capped server-side
- No articles available in the requested window/category — returns count:0 with empty articles array

## How this service works

Latest headlines by category for AI agents.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a count of results, the echoed query, the freshness window used, response time in milliseconds, and an array of articles — each containing the URL, title, source publication, a short summary, category tag, published datetime, relevance score, and age in minutes. Also includes a 'freshest' timestamp indicating the most recent article found.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/the-bot-wire-headlines-99cb1389/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from thebotwire.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/thebotwire.com/llms.txt)