# The BotWire Legal Trade Feed

> The BotWire Legal Trade Feed is a paid API for AI agents from thebotwire.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Fetches the latest legal industry news covering law firm business, legal tech adoption, AI in law, and lateral moves from curated sources like Above the Law, Artificial Lawyer, and Legal Technology News

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/legaltrade/latest
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/the-botwire-legal-trade-feed-ecc46826
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_mcx_pzm7fgTn_2jAyQ2vd

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-botwire-legal-trade-feed-ecc46826
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest legal tech and AI-in-law headlines from The BotWire legal feed — give me up to 20 results from the past 24 hours, filtering to Artificial Lawyer if possible.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need curated, real-time legal industry intelligence from trusted publications (Above the Law, Artificial Lawyer, Legal Technology News) rather than generic web search. Ideal for agents monitoring legal tech adoption, law firm competitive dynamics, AI-in-law developments, or lateral partner moves. Prefer this over broad news APIs when domain specificity and source curation matter for legal or legal-tech use cases.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if the freshness window is too narrow or query terms are too specific
- Invalid src enum value returns an error or empty set
- Limit exceeding 50 is rejected
- Payment failure or missing x402 header results in 402 response
- Source may have gaps if upstream publications are slow to update

## How this service works

Legal industry , firm business, legal tech adoption, AI in law, lateral moves. Legal-tech vendors, law-firm competitive intel, and legal-AI startups (a fast-growing agent-building population)

## Output

A list of legal industry news items including headlines, publication source (abovethelaw, artificiallawy, or legaltechnolog), timestamps, article URLs, and brief summaries — up to 50 results depending on the limit parameter, filtered by recency window and/or search query if provided.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/the-botwire-legal-trade-feed-ecc46826/health.json
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