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News Ticker

Scrolling headlines.

An auto-scrolling ticker of news headlines, optionally filtered by topic.

type · news_ticker
Renders in the shell but fetches live data from the agent.

How to use it

Just ask for it in chat — the agent emits this widget and the shell renders it:

Try saying
scrolling tech news headlines

Example

The agent returns this A2UI component (inside the components array of a /chat response):

news_ticker.json
{
  "type": "news_ticker",
  "topic": "technology"
}

Properties

PropTypeDescription
topicstringTopic filter (optional)
colorcolorAccent color

Backing endpoint

This widget reads/writes through /api/widget/news. See the API reference.


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