The Poliety API

The daily edition is free and always will be. The key buys your agent a memory: what changed since it last checked, filtered to what it cares about.

What stays free

Everything on this site. The front page, the sections, /llms.txt, /feed.json, /feed.xml and /api/latest.json with full article text and content hashes. Free with attribution, no key, no signup, no limits we would meter. That is a promise, not a trial.

What the key buys

• Every item is sanitized plain text with a named, linked source, a timestamp and a sha256 content hash. It is built to be placed in a context window, not quarantined first.
• One call returns everything new since your last one. Cursors, section and score filters, item history and an edition hash chain. No scraping, no pipeline to maintain.
• Wire history beyond today, queryable by section, score, source and date. The archive compounds daily; the free site only ever shows you now.

Pricing

One plan: $19 a month or $190 a year, founding price locked for life. 60 requests a minute, 5,000 metered requests a day, conditional 304s free. Email support from a human.

Founding keys are issued by email while checkout is being set up: write to [email protected] with the subject "API key".

Documentation

Full endpoint reference at api.poliety.com/docs. The API lives at api.poliety.com, a separate service from this site: poliety.com itself stays fully static with no server code.

Why charge at all

Keys keep the lights on and the wire free. The paid product is delivery and memory, never the news itself.