# TheBotWire Documentary & Unscripted News Feed

> TheBotWire Documentary & Unscripted 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 latest documentary film financing, commissions, and factual/unscripted TV news from trade sources like RealScreen

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/documentary/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-documentary-unscripted-news-feed-726d54cc
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_nK8z0y7dL03kWINt46j08

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-documentary-unscripted-news-feed-726d54cc
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest documentary and unscripted TV commission news from RealScreen — show me up to 15 items from the past 24 hours.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an agent specifically needs documentary film, unscripted TV, or factual TV trade news — particularly commission and financing announcements sourced from industry trades like RealScreen. Prefer it over the general breaking news endpoint when the user's focus is narrowly on the doc/unscripted sector rather than broad entertainment or world news.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if query terms match nothing in the feed
- Stale data if freshness window is very short and no recent items exist
- Rate limit or payment errors if x402 payment fails
- Invalid 'since' format returns an error or no results
- Limit exceeding 50 returns a validation error

## How this service works

Documentary and unscripted: commissions, factual TV, doc financing. Doc filmmakers and unscripted commissioners; an underserved slice of the film/TV trade

## Output

A list of documentary and unscripted TV trade news items, each typically including headline, source (e.g. RealScreen), publication timestamp, summary or excerpt, and a link to the full article. Results cover commissions, financing announcements, greenlight deals, and factual TV industry developments.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-documentary-unscripted-news-feed-726d54cc/health.json
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