# The Bot Wire News Search

> The Bot Wire News Search is a paid API for AI agents from thebotwire.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Searches a curated real-time news feed covering markets, crypto, tech, world, business, and energy — returning ranked articles refreshed every 5 minutes, paid per-call via x402 micropayment.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/news?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 2
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/the-bot-wire-news-search-5a5b5b29
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_GW7QSPmlFYowXWkhPSDnq

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-news-search-5a5b5b29
```

Example prompt: Search Bot Wire for the latest crypto news from the past 2 hours — give me up to 5 articles about Bitcoin or Ethereum price movements.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs fast, current news on financial markets, crypto, tech, business, world events, or energy — especially when freshness matters (articles updated every 5 minutes). Ideal for agents that need no API key setup and can pay per-call via x402 USDC micropayments on Base. Prefer this over general web search when you want structured, pre-summarized, categorized news articles with relevance scores rather than raw web results.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'q' parameter returns a 400-level error
- Invalid 'since' format (e.g. non-standard duration string) may return no results or an error
- Payment failure via x402 results in a 402 Payment Required response blocking the request
- Very narrow queries or obscure topics may return zero articles (count: 0)
- Category filter typo or unsupported category value may yield empty results

## How this service works

Breaking news search across 40 curated world, business, markets, technology, crypto and energy sources. Ask what just happened on any topic and get ranked headlines newer than any model's training cutoff, each with its publisher, publication timestamp and link.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a count of matched articles, the original query, the freshness window applied, response time in milliseconds, and an array of articles each containing title, URL, source name, plain-text summary, category, publication timestamp, relevance score, and age in minutes. Also includes a 'freshest' field indicating the most recently published article timestamp.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/the-bot-wire-news-search-5a5b5b29/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)