UK street-level crime around a location from the Home Office data.police.uk service. Give a latitude/longitude (and optional month YYYY-MM, defaults to the latest available — UK data lags ~2 months) and get the total crime count, a breakdown by category (anti-social behaviour, burglary, violent crime, vehicle crime, etc.), and recent individual records (category, approximate street, lat/lon, and outcome status). Free, Open Government Licence (commercial use permitted). Location-risk signal an LLM cannot recall — for property, insurance, and safety agents. Locations are anonymised to nearby map points by the Home Office.
/api/gov/uk-crimePAYMENT-SIGNATURE.The uk crime API is a pay-per-call gov endpoint built for AI agents and autonomous software. UK street-level crime around a location from the Home Office data.police.uk service.
There is no signup and no API key. An agent (or any HTTP client) hits the endpoint, receives an x402 "402 Payment Required" challenge, signs a sub-cent USDC payment on Base or Solana, and retries — the data comes back on the paid request. That makes it a drop-in uk crime data source for an agent tool-use loop, an MCP host, or a backend that needs gov data on demand without onboarding to yet another vendor portal.
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
latrequired | number | min -90 · max 90 |
lngrequired | number | min -180 · max 180 |
month | string | match ^\d{4}-\d{2}$ |
limit | integer | min 1 · max 50 |
# 1. Probe with no auth → 402 envelope with PaymentRequirements curl -sS 'https://2s.io/api/gov/uk-crime?lat=-90&lng=-180&month=12345&limit=1' # 2. Sign + retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: curl -sS 'https://2s.io/api/gov/uk-crime?lat=-90&lng=-180&month=12345&limit=1' \ -H 'PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: <base64-json-payload>' # Or use the canonical runner (handles probe → sign → retry): # EVM_PRIVATE_KEY=0x... node --env-file=.env.local \ # --experimental-strip-types scripts/x402-pay.ts \ # 'https://2s.io/api/gov/uk-crime?lat=-90&lng=-180&month=12345&limit=1'
import { TwoS } from '@2sio/sdk'
const client = new TwoS({
privateKey: process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY as `0x${string}`,
})
const result = await client.gov.ukCrime({
"lat": -90,
"lng": -180,
"month": "12345",
"limit": 1
})
console.log('endpoint:', result.endpoint)
console.log('cost:', result.costUsd, 'USDC')
console.log('tx:', result.settlement?.txHash)
console.log('data:', result.data)import os
from twosio import TwoS
client = TwoS(private_key=os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])
result = client.gov.uk_crime(lat=-90, lng=-180, month="12345", limit=1)
print("endpoint:", result.endpoint)
print("cost:", result.cost_usd, "USDC")
print("tx:", (result.settlement or {}).get("tx_hash"))
print("data:", result.data)// 1. Add @2sio/mcp to your MCP host config (Claude Desktop example below).
// EVM_PRIVATE_KEY funds x402 payments per call.
// claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"2sio": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@2sio/mcp"],
"env": { "EVM_PRIVATE_KEY": "0x..." }
}
}
}
// 2. Once the server is running, agents call this tool via standard MCP:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "gov.uk-crime",
"arguments": {
"lat": -90,
"lng": -180,
"month": "12345",
"limit": 1
}
}
}| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
ok | boolean | one of: true |
items | array | |
total | integer | Total matching rows upstream; null when unknown. |
source | object |
{
"ok": true,
"items": [
{
"query": {
"lat": 1,
"lng": 1,
"month": "example"
},
"total": 1,
"returned": 1,
"byCategory": {},
"crimes": [
{
"category": "example",
"month": "example",
"street": "example",
"latitude": 1,
"longitude": 1,
"outcome": "example",
"outcomeDate": "example"
}
],
"source": {
"provider": "example",
"url": "example",
"license": "example"
},
"note": "example"
}
],
"total": 1,
"source": {
"provider": "example",
"url": "example",
"license": "example"
}
}