News Monitoring API for AI Agents

FastAF’s news endpoint returns Google News results for a query as JSON, so an agent can watch a brand or topic for $0.005 per call via x402.

How it works

1. Call /x402/v1/news (MCP search_news) with a brand or topic.
2. Keep URLs you’ve already seen and flag new ones.
3. Fetch full articles with /x402/v1/scrape if needed. Public X profiles are available via /x402/v1/x.

Honest comparison

Media-monitoring suites offer sentiment, dashboards and archives. FastAF gives raw Google News results; you build alerts and storage.

Pricing

Pricing: 500 free credits every month after email verification; x402 pay-per-call from $0.003; optional prepaid credit packs from $10 for 20,000 credits, without expiry.

Pricing source: FastAF OpenAPI, read October 27, 2026. Live payment challenges are authoritative.

How should an agent summarize news?

Search a focused topic, preserve source URLs and separate reporting from inference. Resolve relative timestamps carefully and read the original article before citing a claim.

What should you validate?

Check returned fields before using them in an agent decision. Missing fields are not evidence of zero values; preserve provenance and use bounded retries.

How do you make a real request?

This example calls Google News API using its documented input. Save the API key from the signup email, confirm your email and set FASTAF_API_KEY in your server environment.

curl --fail-with-body -H "Authorization: Bearer $FASTAF_API_KEY" 'https://api.fastaf.co/v1/news?query=web+scraping+regulation&country=us&language=en'

# pip install fastaf-sdk
import os
from fastaf import FastAF

with FastAF(os.environ["FASTAF_API_KEY"]) as client:
    data = client.request("news", {"query":"web scraping regulation","country":"us","language":"en"})
    print(data)

Google News JSON. news_results contains title, source, lastUpdated, url and snippet when available; timestamps may be relative text.

The example costs 5 credits after the trial. Alternatively, this endpoint costs $0.005 per successful x402 call at the default configuration; FastAF x402 calls start at $0.003. These are separate billing modes.

For x402, request the same parameters under /x402/v1/news without an API key, validate the live PAYMENT-REQUIRED challenge, then sign and retry with a payment-aware client. A bare curl request returns HTTP 402 and does not pay; unsupported higher-cost options require API-key billing.

Frequently asked questions