Government news, over an API

What we hold

Six markets, one API. Pick them with market=. Each document says where it came from and under which licence you may run it.

The API

Base URL https://wire.blinkhub.net. Authenticate with an X-Api-Key header. It is a pull API — nothing is pushed at you and there is no FTP drop to babysit. On WordPress, the free plugin does the pulling and reporting for you.

# what is available in the UK feed
curl -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://wire.blinkhub.net/api/wire/v1/articles?market=gb&limit=20"

# take one
curl -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://wire.blinkhub.net/api/wire/v1/articles/12345?market=gb"

# tell us where it ran
curl -X POST -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"uri":"urn:blink:wire:gb:12345","url":"https://your-site.example/story"}' \
  "https://wire.blinkhub.net/api/wire/v1/publications"

The listing takes limit (up to 100) and since (ISO 8601), so a scheduled job can ask only for what has appeared since its last run.

Use it from AI assistants (MCP)

The same feed is available as an MCP server at https://wire.blinkhub.net/mcp, so an AI assistant can search it and read articles for you. It takes the same key in the X-Api-Key header and the same allowance: searching is free, and each full article counts once.

# Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http blinkhub-wire https://wire.blinkhub.net/mcp \
  --header "X-Api-Key: YOUR_KEY"

• · search_articles — keyword search over recent articles in one market. Free.
• · get_article — full text with the source agency, original link and licence notice. Counts toward your allowance the first time.
• · list_markets and account_status — what is available, and how much of this month's allowance you have used.

Listed in the official MCP Registry as net.blinkhub/wire. Setup for other clients is on GitHub.

Format: IPTC ninjs

Documents come back as ninjs — the IPTC standard most editorial systems already read — with headline, body, source, timestamps, the source's licence notice, a link to the original release where one exists, and associated images where the licence allows them. Bodies are cleaned of site furniture before they reach you (newsletter prompts, share rows, repeated blocks), and image URLs are rewritten to public addresses, so nothing arrives pointing at an internal host. Articles that fail our length and quality gate are not served and are not billed.

How billing works

• · Listing is free. You should be able to see what exists before you pay for any of it.
• · Full text is metered per article. One charge the first time you fetch a given piece — on the free plan it counts toward your 100 a month instead.
• · Re-fetching is free. Pull the same article again — after a crash, during a re-index, from a second system — and you are not charged twice.
• · No subscription, no minimum term. Your plan and how much of this month's allowance you have used are always readable at /me.

Pricing

Free for up to 100 full articles a month once you verify your site. Above that, or for an organisation-wide licence, the rate is set by volume and by how you intend to use the material — tell us roughly how many articles a month you expect and which feed you want, and you will get a figure back.

Partner plan. Verified publishers can take 300 full articles a month instead of 100, at no charge, by publishing up to four press releases a month that we send them. Each one is labelled “Press release” with the issuer's name, you can decline up to two a month, and the WordPress plugin imports them for you. Apply from the Wire page in your BlinkHub account. Partner plan terms

Who this is for

• · Local and regional newsrooms that want public-sector news ready to run
• · Korean-language outlets abroad that need news from Korea in Korean
• · Aggregators and news apps adding government and policy sections
• · Trade titles, monitoring and research teams that want a structured feed instead of scraping