# thebotwire.com Internet Standards Feed (IETF & W3C)

> thebotwire.com Internet Standards Feed (IETF & W3C) is a paid API for AI agents from thebotwire.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns latest IETF working group activity, RFC publications, and W3C web standards news, optionally filtered by source or search terms.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/standards/latest
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-com-internet-standards-feed-ietf-w3c-d6e6f2f8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_jJ5JNgU_WOXQbCBXwbjEI

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-internet-standards-feed-ietf-w3c-d6e6f2f8
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest IETF and W3C standards announcements from the last 24 hours — search for anything related to HTTP or WebSockets and give me up to 20 results.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an agent needs real-time or recent internet standards intelligence from IETF or W3C — specifically RFC publications, working group activity, or W3C recommendation-track news. It is the right choice for protocol engineering agents, compliance agents tracking web standards adoption, or any workflow that needs to detect new standards before they propagate to secondary sources. Prefer it over general web search when you want structured, source-attributed standards data with controllable freshness and volume.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if the freshness window is too narrow and no items were published in that period
- Invalid 'src' enum value returns a validation error
- 'limit' outside the 1–50 range is rejected
- 'since' parameter with an unrecognized duration format may be ignored or return an error
- Network or upstream feed unavailability results in a 5xx error

## How this service works

Internet standards announcements for protocol and platform agents: IETF working group activity and RFC publication, plus W3C web standards, specifications and recommendation-track news.

## Output

A list of standards news items (up to the requested limit, default 10), each describing a recent IETF working group event, RFC publication, or W3C specification update — including title, source (ietf or w3c), publication date, and a link or summary of the announcement.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-com-internet-standards-feed-ietf-w3c-d6e6f2f8/health.json
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