Live news search. Returns recent headlines with title, URL, snippet, publisher source, relative age, and a breaking-news flag — real-time coverage past any model training cutoff. Supports count (1-20), offset, country (2-letter), and freshness (pd=past day, pw=past week, pm=past month, py=past year). Use for current events, market-moving developments, monitoring, and "what happened with X" questions. For general web results see /api/search/web; for Hacker News specifically see /api/news/hn-top.
/api/news/searchPAYMENT-SIGNATURE.The search API is a pay-per-call news endpoint built for AI agents and autonomous software. Live news search.
There is no signup and no API key. An agent (or any HTTP client) hits the endpoint, receives an x402 "402 Payment Required" challenge, signs a sub-cent USDC payment on Base or Solana, and retries — the data comes back on the paid request. That makes it a drop-in search data source for an agent tool-use loop, an MCP host, or a backend that needs news data on demand without onboarding to yet another vendor portal.
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
qrequired | string | News query. min 1 chars · max 400 chars |
count | integer | min 1 · max 20 |
offset | integer | min 0 · max 9 |
country | string | match ^[a-zA-Z]{2}$ |
freshness | string | one of: pd | pw | pm | py |
# 1. Probe with no auth → 402 envelope with PaymentRequirements curl -sS 'https://2s.io/api/news/search?q=example&count=10&offset=0&country=example&freshness=pd' # 2. Sign + retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: curl -sS 'https://2s.io/api/news/search?q=example&count=10&offset=0&country=example&freshness=pd' \ -H 'PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: <base64-json-payload>' # Or use the canonical runner (handles probe → sign → retry): # EVM_PRIVATE_KEY=0x... node --env-file=.env.local \ # --experimental-strip-types scripts/x402-pay.ts \ # 'https://2s.io/api/news/search?q=example&count=10&offset=0&country=example&freshness=pd'
import { TwoS } from '@2sio/sdk'
const client = new TwoS({
privateKey: process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY as `0x${string}`,
})
const result = await client.news.search({
"q": "example",
"count": 10,
"offset": 0,
"country": "example",
"freshness": "pd"
})
console.log('endpoint:', result.endpoint)
console.log('cost:', result.costUsd, 'USDC')
console.log('tx:', result.settlement?.txHash)
console.log('data:', result.data)import os
from twosio import TwoS
client = TwoS(private_key=os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])
result = client.news.search(q="example", count=10, offset=0, country="example", freshness="pd")
print("endpoint:", result.endpoint)
print("cost:", result.cost_usd, "USDC")
print("tx:", (result.settlement or {}).get("tx_hash"))
print("data:", result.data)// 1. Add @2sio/mcp to your MCP host config (Claude Desktop example below).
// EVM_PRIVATE_KEY funds x402 payments per call.
// claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"2sio": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@2sio/mcp"],
"env": { "EVM_PRIVATE_KEY": "0x..." }
}
}
}
// 2. Once the server is running, agents call this tool via standard MCP:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "news.search",
"arguments": {
"q": "example",
"count": 10,
"offset": 0,
"country": "example",
"freshness": "pd"
}
}
}| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
ok | boolean | one of: true |
items | array | |
total | integer | Total matching rows upstream; null when unknown. |
source | object | |
meta | object |
{
"ok": true,
"items": [
{
"title": "example",
"url": "example",
"description": "example",
"source": "example",
"age": "example",
"breaking": false,
"thumbnail": "example"
}
],
"total": 1,
"source": {
"provider": "example",
"url": "example",
"license": "example"
},
"meta": {
"query": "example"
}
}