# The Stall — News Sentiment Analysis

> The Stall — News Sentiment Analysis is a paid API for AI agents from the-stall.intuitek.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.059/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Analyzes sentiment of recent news articles for a given company, stock ticker, or news topic over a configurable lookback window

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://the-stall.intuitek.ai/cap/news-sentiment
- Price: $0.059/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/the-stall-news-sentiment-analysis-9244083f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_GfFftg7zVoprB8o8u2Pfa

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-stall-news-sentiment-analysis-9244083f
```

Example prompt: What's the current news sentiment for NVIDIA over the last 7 days — is the coverage mostly positive, negative, or mixed?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need rapid, pay-per-call sentiment analysis on recent news for companies, stocks, or macro topics without setting up API keys or accounts. Ideal for financial research agents, investment signal pipelines, or market monitoring bots that need real-time sentiment with USDC micropayments on Base mainnet.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'query' parameter returns a 400 or schema validation error
- Lookback days outside 1–30 range may default or return a validation error
- Obscure or misspelled company names may yield sparse or no results
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance returns HTTP 402
- Network or upstream news data source unavailability returns 500

## How this service works

Returns global news coverage and sentiment for any company, stock ticker, or topic. Primary source: GDELT Project v2 (250M+ articles, ML tone scoring). Fallback: Google News RSS with keyword heuristic. Returns article count, avg sentiment tone (−100 negative → +100 positive), top positive/negative headlines, and top news domains. Lookback: 1–30 days (default 3). Results cached 10 min.

## Output

Returns aggregated sentiment data for recent news articles matching the query, including sentiment scores or labels (positive/negative/neutral) derived from news coverage over the specified lookback period (1–30 days, default 3).

## Example request

```json
{
 "input": {
  "type": "http",
  "method": "GET",
  "queryParams": {
   "days": 7,
   "query": "artificial intelligence"
  }
 }
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "required": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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