# thebotwire.com Electrical Industry News Feed

> thebotwire.com Electrical Industry 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 electrical contracting, power distribution, EV charging, and electrical equipment industry news from curated trade sources

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/electrical/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-com-electrical-industry-news-feed-a3dbb85e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_N7C5eppeAp26sccfSCL2S

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-com-electrical-industry-news-feed-a3dbb85e
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest electrical contracting and EV charging news from EC&M — give me up to 15 results from the past 24 hours.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need curated, trade-specific electrical industry news from professional sources like EC&M, TED Magazine, or Electrical Contractor — especially for EV charging, power distribution, electrical contracting, and equipment topics. Prefer this over general news search endpoints when your agent needs domain-focused electrical trade coverage rather than broad headlines.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if query terms match nothing in the freshness window
- Invalid 'src' enum value returns an error
- 'since' parameter with unrecognized format may fail or return unexpected results
- Rate limiting or payment failure if x402 payment is not processed
- Limit values outside 1-50 range are rejected by schema validation

## How this service works

Electrical contracting and power distribution , code changes, EV charging installs, gear s. Electrical equipment manufacturers and distributors, contractor-facing software, and EV-infrastructure agents

## Output

A list of news items from curated electrical trade sources (ecmweb, tedmag, electricalcont), each typically including title, URL, source, publication timestamp, and a summary or excerpt covering electrical contracting, EV charging, power distribution, equipment, and related topics.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-com-electrical-industry-news-feed-a3dbb85e/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)