# Zero-Bloat A2A Live Web Search & Tech News Grounding

> Zero-Bloat A2A Live Web Search & Tech News Grounding is a paid API for AI agents from workflows.agentdiet.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).

Executes live Google News RSS and HackerNews Algolia searches, returning clean, token-pruned results with no ads or bloat

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://workflows.agentdiet.dev/v1/news-extractor?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: workflows.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://workflows.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/workflows-agentdiet-dev-zero-bloat-a2a-live-web-search-tech-news-66113ef4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_WWwZDMQN-iNg6jMAcDMKk

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 workflows-agentdiet-dev-zero-bloat-a2a-live-web-search-tech-news-66113ef4
```

Example prompt: Search for the latest news and HackerNews articles about 'Anthropic Claude model updates' and give me clean, ad-free results I can use to ground my response.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs real-time, token-efficient news or tech article grounding without the overhead of scraping ad-heavy pages. It is particularly well-suited for HackerNews and Google News coverage of technology topics. Prefer it over generic web search APIs when you need clean, pre-processed results optimized for LLM context windows, or when you specifically want HackerNews community coverage alongside mainstream news.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or very short query returns no results
- Query too broad may return low-relevance articles
- Google News RSS or HackerNews Algolia backend may be temporarily unavailable causing fetch errors
- Payment failure (HTTP 402) if x402 USDC payment is not included or rejected
- Rate limiting if too many requests are sent in a short window

## How this service works

Executes live Google News RSS + HackerNews Algolia search queries and returns clean, token-pruned results with zero ad bloat. (Live x402 v2, IETF MPP & MCP endpoint at https://workflows.agentdiet.dev/v1/news-extractor)

## Output

A structured, token-pruned list of clean news articles and HackerNews results matching the query — including titles, links, and summaries — with advertising, tracking, and bloat stripped out for efficient agent consumption

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "query"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "minLength": 1,
   "description": "Search query for live news, technical articles, and web results"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/workflows-agentdiet-dev-zero-bloat-a2a-live-web-search-tech-news-66113ef4/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from workflows.agentdiet.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/workflows.agentdiet.dev/llms.txt)