# Wikinews Search

> Wikinews Search is a paid API for AI agents from x402-toolbox.shablony-pro.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-29).

Searches Wikinews articles by query term and returns matching news results

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402-toolbox.shablony-pro.workers.dev/news/wikinews-search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/wikinews-search-659dfb52
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_WeQ0dJxGTWuZzceapVLlO

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 wikinews-search-659dfb52
```

Example prompt: Search Wikinews for articles about the 2024 US presidential election and give me a list of what comes up.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to search Wikinews specifically — the free, open-license, citizen-journalism news wiki — rather than mainstream commercial news sources. Ideal for agents needing royalty-free or CC-licensed news content, historical event coverage, or when access without API keys is required (payment via USDC on Base is the only credential needed).

## Known failure modes

- Empty results if query matches no Wikinews articles
- Payment failure if USDC balance is insufficient or x402 header is missing
- Malformed query returning unexpected or irrelevant articles
- Wikinews API upstream errors causing failed lookups
- Rate limiting or timeout from the underlying Wikinews service

## How this service works

309 deterministic pay-per-call tools for AI agents over x402 (USDC, Base). No signup, no API key: the payment is the identity.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a list of Wikinews articles matching the search query, including article titles, URLs, and possibly summaries or snippets, along with an ok and paid confirmation flag.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "schema": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "ok": true,
  "paid": true
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/wikinews-search-659dfb52/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402-toolbox.shablony-pro.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402-toolbox.shablony-pro.workers.dev/llms.txt)