# x402node News Search

> x402node News Search is a paid API for AI agents from web.x402node.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-02).

Search the web for real-time news articles by keyword, returning titles, links, and snippets, paid per call in USDC on Base with no account or API key required.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://web.x402node.dev/api/news-search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-02
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402node-news-search-33150924
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_HiEFNZG88KpZVOrU5UTOr

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 x402node-news-search-33150924 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the latest news about 'OpenAI' and show me the top results — titles, links, and snippets.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time news search results without managing API keys or account subscriptions, and you can pay $0.02 USDC per call on Base. Ideal for AI agents that need frictionless, pay-per-use news access for any keyword without pre-registration.

## Known failure modes

- Keyword not provided — missing required 'keyword' field returns an error
- Payment failure — insufficient USDC balance or failed x402 micropayment results in 402 Payment Required
- No results found — obscure or misspelled keyword may return an empty results array
- Rate limiting — excessive requests may be throttled
- Network timeout — real-time web search may occasionally time out

## How this service works

Frictionless data access for AI agents - pay per call in USDC on Base, no account, no API key, no signup. Real-time search, page reading and structured extraction.

## Output

A JSON object containing an array of results, each with a link (URL), title, and snippet (brief excerpt) from a relevant news article matching the keyword.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "keyword": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "the topic"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "results": [
   {
    "link": "https://example.com",
    "title": "Example Title",
    "snippet": "Example snippet text."
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402node-news-search-33150924/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from web.x402node.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/web.x402node.dev/llms.txt)