# TheBotWire Automotive News Feed

> TheBotWire Automotive News 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 automotive news—model reveals, launches, pricing and spec changes, recalls, and reviews—sourced from Car and Driver

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/auto/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/thebotwire-automotive-news-feed-813bb7b9
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_UtEnqiZY-LoCtb1aWhCwq

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 thebotwire-automotive-news-feed-813bb7b9
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest automotive news from Car and Driver — show me the 10 most recent articles, and if there are any new model reveals or recalls in the last 24 hours, highlight those.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need up-to-date, curated automotive news specifically from Car and Driver, covering consumer and industry angles including model reveals, recalls, pricing shifts, and reviews. Prefer this over general web search when you want structured, reliable automotive-domain content without noise from irrelevant sources.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if search query matches no recent articles
- Empty response if freshness window is too narrow and no articles were published in that period
- Invalid 'since' format causes a parsing error
- limit out of range (below 1 or above 50) returns a validation error
- Payment failure if x402 USDC payment is not properly handled

## How this service works

Automotive news for consumer and industry agents: model reveals and launches, pricing and spec changes, recalls and reviews across manufacturers, from Car and Driver.

## Output

Returns a list of automotive news items from Car and Driver, each containing a headline, summary or full text, publication timestamp, source attribution, and article URL. Results can be filtered by keyword search query, limited to a specified count (1–50), or scoped to a freshness window (e.g. 30m, 2h, 24h, 3d).

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-automotive-news-feed-813bb7b9/health.json
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