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Api Endpoint

news-brief

Situation brief on a topic (RAG over fresh news): searches recent news, reads the top articles and synthesizes a short cited summary of what is currently happening plus key points. Cites only the retrieved articles (anti-hallucination).

Open interactive test console

Offering

Provider
payai.agentstools.dev
Method
GET
Offering type
Api Endpoint
Transport type
http
Category
Web Search Research
Delivery
Not provided
Pricing model
Not provided
x402 version
2

Endpoint context

URL
https://payai.agentstools.dev/news/brief
MIME type
application/json
First seen
2026-10-16T02:01:07.550Z
Last seen
Tags
News, Brief, situation, summary, Analysis, current-events, Research, synthesis, Cited, fresh

Website

Payment pricing

x402 payment terms are the authoritative price for calling this endpoint.

Payment option 1
0.04 USDC
Atomic price: 40000 · Network: eip155:8453 · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact
Payment option 2
0.04 USDC
Atomic price: 40000 · Network: solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact
Raw x402 terms
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  {
    "scheme": "exact",
    "network": "eip155:8453",
    "asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
    "amount": "40000",
    "payTo": "0xF22e558a00D91Ee12A1F50C52186FecB8dDFf493"
  },
  {
    "scheme": "exact",
    "network": "solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp",
    "asset": "EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v",
    "amount": "40000",
    "payTo": "AytHnvc6bZx1ALTy7b5Px7hcavoSYszG9aeKvDcZ8R1u"
  }
]

Observed health

Status
Healthy
Latest latency
367 ms
Average latency
668 ms
HTTP status
402
Last checked
Reachability
100% over 8 checks

Latency is measured to the first response headers. A reachable result does not verify response accuracy or merchant identity.

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
      "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "GET",
        "HEAD",
        "DELETE"
      ]
    },
    "queryParams": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "topic": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "The topic to brief on"
        },
        "query": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Alias for topic (either is accepted)"
        },
        "max_sources": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 1,
          "maximum": 10,
          "description": "How many articles to read (default 5)"
        },
        "timelimit": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "d",
            "w",
            "m",
            "y"
          ],
          "description": "Freshness filter (default w = past week)"
        },
        "region": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Locale like 'us-en', 'uk-en' (default us-en)"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "topic"
      ]
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "required": [
    "input"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "input": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "type",
        "method"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "type": {
          "type": "string",
          "const": "http"
        },
        "method": {
          "enum": [
            "GET",
            "HEAD",
            "DELETE"
          ],
          "type": "string"
        },
        "queryParams": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": [
            "topic"
          ],
          "properties": {
            "query": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "Alias for topic (either is accepted)"
            },
            "topic": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "The topic to brief on"
            },
            "region": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "Locale like 'us-en', 'uk-en' (default us-en)"
            },
            "timelimit": {
              "enum": [
                "d",
                "w",
                "m",
                "y"
              ],
              "type": "string",
              "description": "Freshness filter (default w = past week)"
            },
            "max_sources": {
              "type": "integer",
              "maximum": 10,
              "minimum": 1,
              "description": "How many articles to read (default 5)"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "output": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "type"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "type": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "example": {
          "type": "object"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}