News from Switzerland
135,231 news articles from publishers in Switzerland, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is www.swissinfo.ch with 45,988 articles, 34.0% of the total, followed by www.blick.ch, www.watson.ch. By language it splits into German (55,075), French (28,294), Spanish (26,840) and 10 more. Daily volume averages about 1,458 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 1,972 on 2026-09-04.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=CH&date=today&sort=date&size=20"No API key, no signup, no quota. The response carries the headline, description,
publisher, publication time and the original URL for every article, and the full body text
if you ask for it with full_text=true.
Count it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?country=CH&top=20"Returns exactly the breakdown shown on this page: which publishers, which languages, and how the volume splits across the last 90 days. About 200 tokens, which makes it the cheapest way for an agent to decide whether this slice is worth reading.
Country is inferred, not declared. Before counting Switzerland articles, read
country_source — and add
strict_country=true to exclude values derived from an en-US
template default.
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=CH&strict_country=true&date=today&size=20"Latest from this slice
The newest articles matching this filter at the time this page was generated. Headlines link to the publisher — we index and search, we do not host.
| Published | Headline | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07T13:23 | Auch die Nördler können feiern: *Chilbi in Niederurnen* #glaris_chilbnet | www.suedostschweiz.ch |
2026-09-07T13:23 | Drei Tage lang feiert Niederurnen die Dämmli-Chilbi: Hier findet ihr die Bilder vom Fest | www.suedostschweiz.ch |
2026-09-07T13:20 | Europas Flughäfen im Pünktlichkeits-Ranking: Zürich überrascht dabei | www.suedostschweiz.ch |
2026-09-07T13:19 | Jaguar Land Rover streicht 4000 Stellen | www.20min.ch |
2026-09-07T13:19 | Vor EM-Showdown in Italien - Warum die Schweiz im Beachsoccer zur Weltspitze gehört | www.srf.ch |
2026-09-07T13:15 | Ratko Mladic, un croisé serbe devenu symbole des atrocités de la guerre | www.lenouvelliste.ch |
2026-09-07T13:05 | Podtrac analyse 84.2 millions de vues pour mesurer l’engagement des podcasts sur YouTube | www.lalettre.pro |
2026-09-07T13:03 | Accident de chasse à Avers Cröt: un cheval abattu par erreur | www.lematin.ch |
Who publishes it
The 25 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
www.swissinfo.ch | 45,988 | 34.0% | query |
www.blick.ch | 22,060 | 16.3% | query |
www.watson.ch | 13,876 | 10.3% | query |
www.bluewin.ch | 13,762 | 10.2% | query |
www.srf.ch | 4,664 | 3.4% | query |
www.tio.ch | 4,295 | 3.2% | query |
www.suedostschweiz.ch | 2,167 | 1.6% | query |
parvica.com | 2,100 | 1.6% | query |
www.joyn.ch | 2,016 | 1.5% | query |
www.rtn.ch | 1,901 | 1.4% | query |
www.moneycab.com | 1,744 | 1.3% | query |
www.cash.ch | 1,719 | 1.3% | query |
www.20min.ch | 1,522 | 1.1% | query |
www.rjb.ch | 1,195 | 0.9% | query |
www.presseportal.ch | 1,173 | 0.9% | query |
www.4-4-2.com | 922 | 0.7% | query |
www.persoenlich.com | 907 | 0.7% | query |
www.nfz.ch | 886 | 0.7% | query |
www.laliberte.ch | 749 | 0.6% | query |
uncutnews.ch | 740 | 0.5% | query |
www.beobachter.ch | 703 | 0.5% | query |
www.digitec.ch | 703 | 0.5% | query |
www.games.ch | 610 | 0.5% | query |
www.rfj.ch | 519 | 0.4% | query |
www.pusulaswiss.ch | 481 | 0.4% | query |
Languages published in Switzerland
What this country actually publishes in, which is often more than one language and rarely what a single language filter would suggest.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| de | German | 55,075 | 40.7% |
| fr | French | 28,294 | 20.9% |
| es | Spanish | 26,840 | 19.8% |
| it | Italian | 9,246 | 6.8% |
| en | English | 7,614 | 5.6% |
| ar | Arabic | 3,365 | 2.5% |
| pt | Portuguese | 1,717 | 1.3% |
| zh | Chinese | 1,167 | 0.9% |
| tr | Turkish | 481 | 0.4% |
| ru | Russian | 73 | 0.1% |
| ja | Japanese | 2 | 0.0% |
| cs | Czech | 1 | 0.0% |
| sk | Slovak | 1 | 0.0% |
Domain zones used by Switzerland publishers
Publishers here do not all use the national zone. This is the split that country inference has to work against.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| ch | Switzerland | 128,228 | 94.8% |
| com | global commercial | 6,459 | 4.8% |
| pro | professional | 460 | 0.3% |
| net | global network | 66 | 0.0% |
| org | organisations | 16 | 0.0% |
| ai | artificial intelligence | 4 | 0.0% |
| im | im | 3 | 0.0% |
Volume by day
How much this slice produces daily. Useful for sizing a job before you run it, and for spotting whether a spike is real or an artefact of one publisher.
| Day | Articles | |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07 | 789 | |
2026-09-06 | 1,350 | |
2026-09-05 | 1,455 | |
2026-09-04 | 1,972 | |
2026-09-03 | 1,905 | |
2026-09-02 | 1,698 | |
2026-09-01 | 1,329 | |
2026-08-31 | 1,164 | |
2026-08-30 | 1,094 | |
2026-08-29 | 1,317 | |
2026-08-28 | 1,950 | |
2026-08-27 | 2,277 | |
2026-08-26 | 1,879 | |
2026-08-25 | 1,266 |
Combine with other filters
# Switzerland, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=CH&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Switzerland, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=CH&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Switzerland, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=CH&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"