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Everything The Veil Press publishes is free to read, quote and republish with credit and a link back. Free feeds and a free JSON API, no key and no sign-up.

The terms

  • Free. No fee, no key, no sign-up, for people, newsrooms, aggregators, researchers and software alike.
  • Quote and summarize any story, with credit to The Veil Press and a link to the story.
  • Republish in full under CC BY-ND 4.0: keep the text unedited, keep the byline, and link back to the original URL. Every breaking story has a one-click "Copy as HTML" block that does this for you.
  • Cite as: The Veil Press, <headline>, <url>. Every API story includes a ready-made cite_as line.
  • Images and share cards may be used alongside the story they belong to, with the same credit.

Credit line

Originally published by The Veil Press: <a href="STORY_URL">HEADLINE</a>

Feeds and open API

/feed.xmlSite-wide RSS 2.0: breaking news and the Desk.
/feed.jsonSite-wide JSON Feed 1.1.
/breaking/feed.xmlBreaking RSS with full text, numbered sources and a credit line on every item.
/breaking/feed.jsonBreaking JSON Feed 1.1 with full HTML.
/breaking/rss.xmlBreaking RSS, live window (the original feed).
/api/v1/breaking.jsonOpen API index: every story with its confirmed facts and source links, cite_as and license.
/api/v1/stories/<slug>.jsonOne story: confirmed facts with source links, full text, sources, update log, cite_as.
/desk/feed.xmlDesk RSS 2.0 with full text, sources and a credit line on every item.
/desk/feed.jsonDesk JSON Feed 1.1 with full text.
/api/v1/desk.jsonEvery Desk piece: headline, dek, published, url, summary, sources, cite_as, license.
/api/v1/desk/<slug>.jsonOne Desk piece with full text and sources.
/api/v1/all.jsonBreaking and Desk together, newest first.
/api/index.jsonMachine-readable list of every endpoint.
/api/mcpMCP connector: AI assistants can search and read every Breaking story and Desk piece live (no auth).
/llms.txtShort site summary for answer engines and assistants.
/llms-full.txtFull text of recent stories in one plain-text file.
/llms-full-desk.txtEvery Desk piece in full, one plain-text file.

All static, cached, open to any origin (CORS). Examples, the MCP setup and an embeddable headline widget are on the developers page.

The story behind the stories

The Veil of the Square Mile cover The Veil of the Square Mile (The Veil, Vol. I)
The history behind the headlines: how the City of London Corporation built durable financial power. Volume I, from the publisher of these stories.
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