REST API · Remote MCP server · ~200 countries
A verified, source-graded directory of crisis helplines across 200 countries — as a REST API and a remote MCP server. So when you need your app or agent surfaces a real, current number instead of hallucinating one.
When someone in crisis talks to your product, the help it gives has to be right.
Large language models routinely invent or misremember helpline numbers — and a wrong number, in that moment, is real harm.
globalhelplines.org gives your model a verified number to look up — instead of one to guess.
Two ways to call it, same verified data behind both. Ask for a country and a topic; get back real services with phone, text and chat, hours, languages, and — crucially — where each number came from and how confident we are in it.
Every record carries the date it was last verified, so you can judge its age yourself instead of trusting a refresh promise.
All the evidence for the record, and its grade changes, in historical order from first detection to the present, is available in the data.
~200 countries, plus every US state and DC. Ask for California and you get California's lines and the national ones — a state filter never hides a national crisis line.
It's a tool your agent calls directly, not a scraper target or a PDF.
A free anonymous tier, real API keys when you need volume. No sales call to try it.
~200 countries plus every US state and DC. ~7,300 verified services across 23 crisis topics.
Full machine-readable lists: /v1/topics · /v1/countries · /v1/regions · /v1/languages
We publish our methodology because, for crisis data, credibility is the product: how services are discovered, how each is verified against its own source, how grades are assigned — conservatively, where "A+" means beyond reasonable doubt — and how national lines are canonicalized so there's one correct record, not fifty stale copies.
Read the methodology →Start free, scale when you need to.