# x402 Social Intel — Top Headlines

> x402 Social Intel — Top Headlines is a paid API for AI agents from social-hub-v5.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Fetches top news headlines via a paid scraping API that uses x402 micropayments on Base mainnet

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://social-hub-v5.vercel.app/api/news/top-headlines
- Price: $0.05/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-top-headlines-7613e014
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_CeXoUlyuLtoIJuDlIeZ30

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-top-headlines-7613e014 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull the top news headlines right now and show me the most important stories — I want the latest breaking news across all major topics.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time top news headlines via a pay-per-call micropayment model on Base mainnet using x402, especially when you want no subscription overhead and direct web-scraped results. Prefer this over traditional news APIs when operating in a crypto-native or agent-payment workflow.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not received or insufficient USDC balance — 402 Payment Required returned
- Invalid or missing POST body parameters — 400 Bad Request
- Scraping source temporarily unavailable or rate-limited — 503 or timeout
- Base mainnet transaction failure — payment not confirmed
- No headlines found for the given filters — empty result set

## 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 top news headlines including article titles, source names, publication timestamps, article URLs, and brief summaries or descriptions scraped from the web, enabling downstream summarization or display.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-social-intel-top-headlines-7613e014/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)