# 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 x402broker.com, paid per call via MPP, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-11-01).

Executes live Google News RSS and HackerNews Algolia searches and returns clean, token-pruned results free of ads and bloat.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402broker.com/v1/grounded-citations?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-11-01
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: x402broker.com
- Website: https://x402broker.com
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402broker-com-zero-bloat-a2a-live-web-search-tech-news-grounding-0ce4589e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_nSj9hk5hF5NUJ_hAQh-XA

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 x402broker-com-zero-bloat-a2a-live-web-search-tech-news-grounding-0ce4589e -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the live web for the latest news and HackerNews discussions about 'OpenAI GPT-5 release' and give me clean, ad-free results I can use as citations.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need live, real-time web and tech news grounding with clean token-efficient output — especially useful when you want to avoid ad-heavy scraped content and need citations from trusted sources like Google News and HackerNews simultaneously in one call.

## Known failure modes

- Empty query string returns validation error
- No results found for obscure or misspelled queries
- Google News RSS or HackerNews Algolia upstream unavailability causes partial or empty results
- Rate limiting or payment failure (HTTP 402) if x402 payment is not properly handled
- Very broad queries may return low-relevance results

## 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://x402broker.com/v1/grounded-citations)

## Output

Returns a structured set of clean, ad-free news articles and HackerNews posts matching the query, with titles, URLs, snippets, and source metadata — token-pruned 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/x402broker-com-zero-bloat-a2a-live-web-search-tech-news-grounding-0ce4589e/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402broker.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402broker.com/llms.txt)