# TheBotWire Construction News Feed

> TheBotWire Construction 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).

Returns the latest construction industry news covering project starts, contractor backlog, materials costs, and labor from curated trade sources

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/construction/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-construction-news-feed-98b1628e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Tu9xxulL9_boVqs1iGeMl

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-construction-news-feed-98b1628e
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest construction industry news from TheBotWire — give me the 15 most recent items from the past 24 hours, filtered to Construction Dive, covering materials costs and project starts.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need curated, up-to-date construction industry intelligence from vetted trade sources (Construction Dive, Contractor Magazine) rather than generic web search. Ideal for construction-tech vendors, general contractors, subcontractors, and materials suppliers who need structured, filterable news feeds about project starts, backlog, and materials pricing without building their own scraping pipeline.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if the freshness window is too narrow or the search query matches nothing
- Invalid 'src' enum value returns an error
- 'limit' outside the 1–50 range returns a validation error
- Payment failure if USDC balance is insufficient for the $0.005 per-call fee
- Rate limiting or service unavailability returns a 402 or 5xx error

## How this service works

Construction industry , project starts, contractor backlog, materials costs, labor. Construction-tech vendors, GCs and subs tracking bid opportunities, and materials suppliers

## Output

A list of up to 50 construction industry news items, each containing headline, source (constructiondi or contractormag), publication timestamp, and a summary or link, covering topics like project starts, contractor backlog, materials costs, and labor market developments.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-construction-news-feed-98b1628e/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)