Open data API & feeds

Every published page is available as JSON and RSS, free for journalists, NGOs, researchers and civic technologists. Attribute “Maharashtra Civic Desk” with a link back (CC BY 4.0). No key required; please stay under a few requests per second.

JSON endpoint

GET /api/public/articles?city=pune&category=transport&lang=en&limit=25&offset=0&q=metro

city — city slug (50 available, see /cities)
category — civic-alerts, transport, infrastructure, tenders-notices, schemes, elections, education, jobs, weather, utilities
lang — en, mr or hi
q — title search
limit — up to 100 · offset — pagination
slug — fetch a single article

{
  "meta": { "total": 128, "limit": 25, "offset": 0, "license": "CC BY 4.0" },
  "data": [
    {
      "slug": "pune-metro-line-3-update",
      "title": "…",
      "city": "pune",
      "category": "transport",
      "confidence": "high",
      "published_at": "2026-08-18T05:00:00Z",
      "url": "https://…/article/pune-metro-line-3-update"
    }
  ]
}

RSS feeds

/rss.xml — everything, English
/rss.xml?lang=mr — मराठी
/rss.xml?lang=hi — हिन्दी
/rss.xml?city=pune — a single city
/rss.xml?category=transport — a single topic

Fair use

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