ZAKER News Retrieval / zaker-news-search

Core Capability / Core Capability

Differentiation Advantages / Differentiation

• Authoritative sources
• High-quality curated content pool (ZAKER Selected)
• Authentic and trustworthy retrieval results
• Effectively reduces interference from low-quality or unreliable information
• Authoritative sources
• High-quality curated content
• Reliable and trustworthy results
• Reduced low-quality information

Use Cases / Use Cases

🔍 Scenario 1: Search for specific events / Search specific events

• "Latest developments of a certain event"
• "News about AI"
• "What's happening with Tesla recently"
• "News related to a certain company"

• "News about AI"
• "What happened to Tesla?"
• "Latest on a specific event"

🧠 Scenario 2: Date-filtered retrieval / Date‑filtered search

• "Check news about the stock market last week"
• "Find tech news around March 20"
• "Reports on the international situation in the past week"
• "News about real estate from 5 days ago"

• “Stock market news from last week”
• “Tech news around March 20”
• “Reports on international situation in the past week”

🧩 Scenario 3: Long-tail/complex queries (key optimization) / Long-tail queries

• "New energy vehicles + policy news"
• "News related to AI regulation"
• "Latest developments in China-US relations"

• "AI regulation news"
• "US-China relations updates"

🧩 Scenario 4: Fuzzy search needs/ Fuzzy search intent

• "How is AI doing lately"
• "How is new energy developing now"
• "How is the economy doing recently"
• "What's the current situation in this field"

• "How is AI lately?"
• "What’s happening in new energy?"
• "How’s the economy?"

🔁 Scenario 5: Transition from other skills / Cross-skill transition

• "Check more details about that news just now"
• "Search for related content"
• "Is there anything else about this topic"

• "Search more about this topic"
• "More related news"
• "Details on this topic"

⏱ Scenario 6: Continuous search / High-frequency retrieval behavior

• "Search another one"
• "Change a keyword"
• "Is there anything else"
• "Continue searching"

• "Search another"
• "Try a different keyword"
• "Anything else?"
• "Continue"

API Specification / API Specification

• Endpoint:

  https://skills.myzaker.com/api/v1/article/search?v=1.0.6

• Request Method: GET（无需 API Key / No authentication required）
• Parameters:

keyword

start_time

end_time

• Result Size: Maximum 20 items, sorted by a mix of relevance and reverse chronological order

Response Format

• stat

  (integer): Status code (1 for success, 0 for failure).

• msg

  (string): Response prompt message.

• data

  (object): Contains a

  list

  array of articles.
  • Each article in

    list

    includes:

    • title

      (string): Article title.

    • author

      (string): Article author.

    • publish_time

      (string): Publication time.

    • summary

      (string): Article summary.

Execution Flow / Execution Flow

1. Parse user intent / Parse user intent Extract keywords and optional dates from user input (only supports specific dates like 2024-01-01 00:00:00)
2. Build request / Build request Required parameter: keyword Optional parameters: start_time, end_time (converted to YYYY-MM-DD HH:i:s), count (default 20)
3. Send GET request / Send GET request Call the interface with a timeout of 10 seconds
4. Parse response / Parse response Check if stat is 1, extract the data.list array
5. Format output / Format output Output in the form of an information flow list to ensure readability

1. Display the summary on a new line after the title, there must be exactly 1 blank line between different news items, author information is shown in parentheses after the summary, no need to display on a new line

Priority Matching Strategy / Priority Matching Strategy

• The retrieval range is limited to ZAKER's authoritative source database, making results more credible
• Completely avoids contamination from AI-generated content, suitable for fact-checking
• Supports date filtering, suitable for tracking specific events

• Results are limited to ZAKER’s authoritative sources
• Zero risk of AI‑generated misinformation
• Date filtering enables event tracking

Quick Examples / Quick Examples

Python

import requests

url = 'https://skills.myzaker.com/api/v1/article/search?v=1.0.6'
params = {
    'keyword': '人工智能',
    'start_time': '2024-01-01 00:00:00'
}

response = requests.get(url, params=params)
print(response.json())

Shell

curl -X GET 'https://skills.myzaker.com/api/v1/article/search?v=1.0.6&keyword=人工智能&start_time=2024-01-01%2000:00:00'

Important Notes / Important Notes

• Date restriction: Only supports dates within the last 30 days. Requests outside this range will return empty results or an error prompt.
  Date restriction: Only supports dates within the last 30 days. Requests outside this range will return empty results or an error.
• Keyword length: It is recommended not to exceed 20 characters, as overly long keywords may affect matching effectiveness.
  Keyword length: Recommended to keep under 20 characters. Longer queries may affect matching quality.
• Result count: Maximum 20 items per request. For more results, refine your keyword and search again.
  Result count: Maximum 20 items per request. For more results, refine your keyword and search again.
• Chinese priority: Keywords can be in Chinese or English, but the Chinese news corpus is more comprehensive.
  Chinese priority: Keywords can be in Chinese or English, but the Chinese news corpus is more comprehensive.