News data APIs for AI agents

News data APIs let an agent pull headlines, search recent articles or follow a feed on a topic, and pay only for the calls it makes. This page keeps Data, Intelligence and Tools listings that mention news, news articles, headlines, a news feed, news search or press releases, or whose name says news or headlines. That covers general and regional news, crypto news, Hacker News search and sentiment scores built from news, and it is deliberately broad. A general web search listing can also return news, and it lives on the web search page instead. Discovery in the PayAPI Market catalogue is free. The agent pays the provider per call over x402 in USDC on Base, Solana or Algorand, with no API key and no publisher contract. Settlement-verified means a paid route with an on-chain receipt, and the examples are claimed listings that have one. Unclaimed (bazaar) imports are labelled and sit below. Listing is free and the provider keeps 100% of each settled call.

39 APIs and 570 endpoints match this page. 21 are settlement-verified: a paid route with an on-chain receipt.

Settlement-verified examples

Agent Extraction API: Sitemap to URL list (robots.txt discovery) · $0.003 · settlement-verified · On-chain receipt
Sitemap to URL list: give a sitemap URL or just a domain (sitemaps found via robots.txt, then /sitemap.xml). Follows sitemap indexes (newest first, up to 10 child sitemaps), reads .xml, .xml.gz and text sitemaps, and returns every URL with lastmod, changefreq, priority, hreflang alternates, image and news counts. Filter by contains= and since= (lastmod).
API Direct: Social Media, Search & Maps Data · $0.004 · settlement-verified · On-chain receipt
Real-time public data from LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Reddit, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, Substack, news, Google Search and Maps. 143 endpoints. No account or API key.
Chinese tech and digital-product headlines in one call, merged and sorted by · $0.02 · settlement-verified · On-chain receipt
Chinese tech and digital-product headlines in one call, merged and sorted by time: IT之家 (ithome.com) and 少数派 (sspai.com). Each item has title, summary, publish time, link and source. Optional ?source=ithome|sspai and ?limit=1-50. No API key and no signup: call the endpoint, it answers HTTP 402 with the payment terms, pay per request in USDC on Base with any x402-compatible client or wallet, then retry the same request to get the data.
Hacker News search: stories matching a keyword, newest first or top-voted, with · $0.003 · settlement-verified · On-chain receipt
Hacker News search: stories matching a keyword, newest first or top-voted, with points, comment count and links. $0.003 USDC on Base. No account, no API key.
Indo News API · $0.05 · settlement-verified · On-chain receipt
Indonesian working-day check: pass ?date=YYYY-MM-DD and get is_public_holiday, is_working_day, the holiday's Indonesian name and type, and the next holiday with days_to_next_holiday. Built from the government's published holiday and joint-leave calendar (SKB tiga menteri), not scraped. For payroll closing, SLA clocks, logistics and compliance windows; for the whole year use /holidays?year=2026&upcoming=true. $0.05 USDC per call via x402 or MPP, no signup, no API key.
Indo News API · $0.05 · settlement-verified · On-chain receipt
Indonesian news for AI agents: top headlines by topic (nasional, dunia, finance, techno, sport, hiburan, sains, kesehatan), keyword search, ranked briefings with keyword trends and top sources, an 8-topic digest, and a brand coverage monitor with a 7-day timeline. Structured JSON, paid per call in USDC on Base via x402. Free 3-headline preview at /preview?topic=finance.
Indo News Keyword Search · $0.1 · settlement-verified · On-chain receipt
Search Indonesian news (Google News Indonesia) by keyword and get up to 25 deduped articles as JSON: title, source, link, publish date. Pay per call in USDC on Base via x402, no API key. Free 3-headline preview at /preview.
Indonesia News Delta Feed · $0.05 · settlement-verified · On-chain receipt
Indonesia news delta feed for agents. Call /feed?topic=finance&since=<cursor> and get only articles newer than the cursor, each with a stable id, entities and Indonesian sentiment, plus the next cursor. Topics: nasional, dunia, finance, techno, sport, hiburan, sains, kesehatan. Built for polling loops, $0.05 per call in USDC on Base, free 3-article sample at /preview.
Indonesia News Sentiment Index · $0.05 · settlement-verified · On-chain receipt
Indonesia news sentiment index: one auditable 0-100 number per beat instead of 25 headlines. Returns label, risk-on/risk-off mood, positive and negative driver terms with weights, entity bias and the strongest headline on each side. Deterministic lexicon scoring, no LLM, every article ships its matched terms so the number can be recomputed. Topics: finance, techno, nasional, dunia and more. $0.05 per call in USDC on Base; free teaser at /sentiment/preview.
Market Intelligence API · $0.003 to $0.05 · settlement-verified · On-chain receipt
Pay-per-call trade-flow intelligence for crypto and 24/7 tokenized US stocks: on-chain buy/sell pressure, pre-trade verdicts, slippage, candles, token flow, SEC filings and news.
Money Reactor Crypto News Feed · $0.001 · settlement-verified · On-chain receipt
Top crypto headlines: Cointelegraph, Decrypt, NewsBTC RSS. JSON: count, items[{title,url,source,publishedAt}], up to 15, newest first. GET /api/crypto-news, no params. x402, USDC on Base.
Quorumz · $0.005 to $0.02 · settlement-verified · On-chain receipt
Geo-tagged news split into quorums: one story, the viewpoints being expressed, and the media, social, and on-the-ground posts supporting each viewpoint. Alpha, news, and quorum feeds, filtered by country or geohash cell.

Unclaimed (bazaar) imports

These rows were imported and the provider has not claimed them. They are not the examples above.

Full-text search across every aggregated data source in one call: news, SEC… · $0.01 · settlement-verified · Unclaimed (bazaar)
Full-text search across every aggregated data source in one call: news, SEC filings, court opinions, academic papers, government records, and developer discussions. Full-text search across every aggregated data source in one call: news, SEC filings, court opinions, academic papers, government records, and developer discussions. One query surfaces everything concordant across independently-sourced, citable results -- not a single-source wrapper. Optional source/category/since filters.
Keyword news search across web news engines (Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yahoo via ddgs) · $0.003 · settlement-verified · Unclaimed (bazaar)
Keyword news search across web news engines (Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yahoo via ddgs). Returns dated headlines with title/url/snippet/source/image + freshness/region/safesearch filters.
Latest crypto news and breaking headlines, real-time from Cointelegraph · $0.001 · settlement-verified · Unclaimed (bazaar)
Latest crypto news and breaking headlines, real-time from Cointelegraph. Search any topic (bitcoin, ethereum, DeFi, regulation, market sentiment) or pull the live feed, with full article text across 14 languages. Built for agents tracking crypto markets, tokens, and Web3.
Recent articles · $0.02 · settlement-verified · Unclaimed (bazaar)
Recent articles. With ticker: company news. Without: market news.
This tool reads live information from Hacker News, a popular website where… · $0.01 · settlement-verified · Unclaimed (bazaar)
This tool reads live information from Hacker News, a popular website where people share and discuss technology news. This tool reads live information from Hacker News, a popular website where people share and discuss technology news. You can either ask for a current list of stories (like the Top, New, Best, Ask, Show, or Job lists) or ask for every story, job posting, and poll that was posted on one specific calendar day in the past. You can also choose to pull in the discussion comments underneath each story, including nested replies several levels deep.
Web search that returns structured SERP results as JSON · $0.003 · settlement-verified · Unclaimed (bazaar)
Web search that returns structured SERP results as JSON. Runs on a dedicated SearXNG instance aggregating multiple engines, so there is no per-engine API key, quota or HTML scraping to manage. Each result carries title, URL, snippet, the source engine and a published date where available. Choose general web, news, or image results, up to 10 per call. Use it to ground an answer in current web sources, research a topic, or monitor news on a query.
You · $0.005 · settlement-verified · Unclaimed (bazaar)
You.com Search API: real-time web search returning ranked results grouped by section (results.web, results.news), each with url, title and description; web results also carry snippets. Use when an agent needs fresh, citable web data (news, markets, company facts) to ground a decision. Query params: query (required), count 1-100 (default 10), livecrawl (web|news|all; fetches live page contents, charged per result), country, freshness. Paid per call in USDC.
agdata · $0.01275 to $0.062 · Unclaimed (bazaar)
Unblocking and web data API for AI agents: any URL as clean Markdown, HTML or text, screenshots and PDFs of pages, YouTube transcripts, Google Maps reviews, job listings, Google News, Amazon reviews, web search with page content and fast search with excerpts, plus social, maps and search data as JSON. Endpoints: unblock, instagram, google-maps, tiktok, linkedin, youtube, twitter, reddit, amazon, google-search, google-maps-reviews, youtube-transcript, screenshot, linkedin-jobs, indeed-jobs, shopify-products, google-news, amazon-reviews, google-play-reviews, linkedin-company, web-search, x-repli Data: x402-list.com (CC BY 4.0)
Agent Press Wire · $1 to $299 · Unclaimed (bazaar)
Press release writing and newswire distribution for AI agents, paid per call over x402 in USDC on Base. Use it to announce a product launch, new version, feature, funding round or milestone and get press coverage for a startup, SaaS or open source project. Newsroom release $1.00 (published on a search-indexed page); newswire distribution to 500+ news sites plus 100+ TV and radio network sites $99.00; premium wire adding AP News, USA Today, Barchart and StreetInsider $299.00. Only charged if the job succeeds. Without an announcement field, releases are written only about news shown on the page. Data: x402-list.com (CC BY 4.0)
Agent-payable real-time Reddit + Hacker News social sensing - trending topics, m · $0.03 · Unclaimed (bazaar)
Agent-payable real-time Reddit + Hacker News social sensing - trending topics, mention velocity, sentiment and emerging terms. Live, keyless, pay-per-call. Credit: 402 Index (MIT)
Argus Intelligence API · $1 · Unclaimed (bazaar)
Real-time intelligence API aggregating 430+ news and data feeds. Data: x402-list.com (CC BY 4.0)
askzephy tools · $0.005 to $0.05 · Unclaimed (bazaar)
Paid agent tools via x402: Solana/Anchor security audit ($0.05), quick risk scan ($0.005), Google News topic feed ($0.01). Unpaid calls return 402 + x402PaymentRequirements. Data: x402-list.com (CC BY 4.0)

Questions

What news sources do these APIs use?

Each provider chooses its own, from RSS feeds and Google News to Hacker News and regional outlets. The listing description names them. PayAPI Market does not license or resell news itself.

Can an agent get only what is new since its last call?

Some listings offer delta feeds that take a since timestamp, so the agent pays for new items only. Others return the latest headlines on every call.

How fresh is the data on a verified listing?

The receipt shows when PayAPI Market last paid for a real response. Freshness of the articles themselves depends on the provider and is stated on the listing.