Tool detail

web-news

Searches web news engines (Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yahoo) by keyword and returns dated headlines with title, url, snippet, source and image.

Categories: News, Web search

Use when

find recent news headlines about a topic
search news filtered by region or a time window (day/week/month/year)
track press coverage of a company, person or event

Not for

not full article text — title/url/snippet/source/image only
not general web search — news engines only

Inputs

Admitted input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "backend": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 0,
      "maxLength": 4096,
      "description": "auto (default multi-engine) or a specific news engine: bing/duckduckgo/yahoo, or a CSV of them"
    },
    "max_results": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 20
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 0,
      "maxLength": 4096
    },
    "region": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 0,
      "maxLength": 4096,
      "description": "Locale like 'us-en', 'uk-en', 'de-de' (default us-en)"
    },
    "safesearch": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 0,
      "maxLength": 4096,
      "enum": [
        "on",
        "moderate",
        "off"
      ],
      "description": "SafeSearch level (default moderate)"
    },
    "timelimit": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 0,
      "maxLength": 4096,
      "enum": [
        "d",
        "w",
        "m",
        "y"
      ],
      "description": "Freshness/time filter: past day/week/month/year"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Endpoint

Method: GET
URL: https://api.agentstools.dev/search/news

Payment

Protocol: x402
Listed price: 0.003 USDC per call on Base
Payment method: exact
Network: eip155:8453
Asset: 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913

Listed terms are catalog metadata. The caller supplies inputs and calls the tool outside Onelayer. If payment is required, the caller uses a compatible wallet to pay.

Source

Directory: Coinbase x402 Bazaar
Record: GET https://api.agentstools.dev/search/news
Retrieved: 2026-09-30T20:37:07.382Z
Catalog file SHA-256: 6837ccddf886f0007cf3727ea9d27faaa5047b51b4f425345c554ce1c271a524
Catalog built: 2026-09-30T22:31:58.034Z