News search

Live news search: ranked recent articles (title, URL, snippet, age, source, breaking flag) from an independent search index as clean JSON. Same freshness filter as web search (pd/pw/pm/py). Optimized for current-events queries where the web index lags.

Input

Field	Type	Description
q *	string	Search query (max 400 chars)
count	number	Results to return, 1-50 (default 10)
freshness	string	Optional: pd, pw, pm, or py (past day/week/month/year)
country	string	Optional 2-letter country code (default US)

Example output

{
  "query": "Federal Reserve interest rate decision",
  "count": 3,
  "results": [
    {
      "title": "Fed holds rates steady",
      "url": "https://example.com/article",
      "description": "Policymakers voted…",
      "age": "2 hours ago",
      "source": "example.com",
      "breaking": false
    }
  ]
}

Try it — see the 402 challenge (free)

curl -i "https://agent402.tools/api/search-news?q=Federal+Reserve+interest+rate+decision&count=5&freshness=pw"

The response is HTTP 402 Payment Required with exact payment requirements. Any x402 v2 client pays automatically and retries:

Paid call (JavaScript agent)

import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch";
import { x402Client } from "@x402/core/client";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

const client = new x402Client();
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(KEY) });
const payFetch = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

const res = await payFetch("https://agent402.tools/api/search-news?q=Federal+Reserve+interest+rate+decision&count=5&freshness=pw");

Wallet-only. This tool reaches the network/browser/storage, so it is paid in USDC via x402 (no proof-of-work tier).

Part of these workflows

This tool is one step in a curated multi-tool workflow — agents can fetch the whole sequence as an MCP prompt or call https://agent402.tools/api/skill-packs/{slug}/prompt.

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