# x402 Social Intel – News Search

> x402 Social Intel – News Search is a paid API for AI agents from social-hub-v5.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.08/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Searches and retrieves news articles and web content matching a given query, paid via x402 on Base mainnet.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://social-hub-v5.vercel.app/api/news/search
- Price: $0.08/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-social-intel-news-search-3833b248
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_X0PUp-erbRoV9h5hNZuar

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 x402-social-intel-news-search-3833b248 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the news for recent articles about 'Ethereum ETF approval' and give me the top results with headlines and links.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to retrieve news articles or web-sourced content for a given keyword or topic and can pay per-call in USDC via the x402 protocol on Base mainnet. Prefer this over free news APIs when you need broader web coverage beyond curated news sources.

## Known failure modes

- No results found for obscure or very niche queries
- Payment failure if USDC balance or x402 wallet not configured correctly
- Rate limiting or timeout if the scraping backend is slow
- Malformed or empty response if query string is missing or invalid
- Results may be stale if the underlying scraper cache hasn't refreshed

## How this service works

Paid social media intelligence API — TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Website scraper. All endpoints EVM-only on Base mainnet.

## Output

Returns a list of news articles matching the query, including headlines, publication URLs, source names, timestamps, and content snippets relevant to the search terms.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-social-intel-news-search-3833b248/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from social-hub-v5.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/social-hub-v5.vercel.app/llms.txt)