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Sources, licences and attribution
40958 feeds are in the catalogue, 38343 of them answered correctly at their last check (feeds that fail are retried with back-off). Counts refresh every 10 minutes. Live per-feed health is on the feed status page.
Source types
| Type | Feeds | Healthy | What we store and show |
|---|---|---|---|
| News outlets (newspapers, TV and radio, agencies, national and international media) | 25698 | 23236 | Headline, link, domain and publication time only. Articles stay © their publishers and every alert links to the originals. |
| News search queries (one per city, country or conflict topic; Google News RSS) | 13463 | 13463 | Result headlines and links as published in the public RSS result; no article text is copied. |
| Emergency services and police (official feeds and channels) | 944 | 806 | Public bulletins of police, fire and emergency services, shown as short titles with a link to the original. |
| Social media (public posts: Bluesky, Mastodon, Telegram channels) | 843 | 836 | Public posts shown with author and a link to the original. One social post alone keeps a low confidence. |
| Global event database (GDELT) | 8 | 0 | Event metadata and links from the GDELT project. |
| Official open data | 2 | 2 | Records published by public authorities, see the licences below. |
Open data licences
| Dataset | Licence | Status |
|---|---|---|
| DIR / Bison Futé: national road events (France) | Licence Ouverte v2.0 (Etalab) | active |
| Ville de Paris open data: disruptive roadworks | ODbL | currently paused (no roadworks alerts) |
| UCDP Candidate and Georeferenced Event Datasets (Uppsala Conflict Data Program): conflict layer on the map | CC BY 4.0 | active, attribution: Uppsala Conflict Data Program |
Attribution and rights
- alerts.live shows headlines, links, outlet names and times. Article text, photos and videos remain the property of their publishers; every alert links to the original articles.
- Outlet owners who want a source removed can write via the contact page.
- Visitors can also report an incident or confirm one; reports appear publicly only once their confidence reaches 50 (see methodology).
- If you reuse alerts.live data, please cite "alerts.live" with the alert page URL and the original source linked on it.
Most cited outlets, last 30 days
ouest-france.fr (124)
g1.globo.com (103)
infobae.com (99)
globo.com (87)
yahoo.com (84)
cbsnews.com (71)
timesofindia.indiatimes.com (70)
actu.fr (60)
twaslnews1.twaslnews.com (57)
leparisien.fr (54)
hoodline.com (48)
france24.com (46)
newsbreak.com (45)
bfmtv.com (45)
aa.com.tr (43)
facebook.com (40)
euronews.com (40)
hindustantimes.com (39)
thehindu.com (35)
t.co (34)
dw.com (33)
apnews.com (33)
nexcom.media (31)
france3-regions.franceinfo.fr (30)
tipi.bison-fute.gouv.fr (29)
Coverage: feeds in 252 countries; 6266 distinct outlets have been cited by public alerts so far.