News from Costa Rica
13,658 news articles from publishers in Costa Rica, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is www.nacion.com with 4,210 articles, 30.8% of the total, followed by www.lateja.cr, www.diarioextra.com. By language it splits into Spanish (13,357), English (301). Daily volume averages about 360 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 538 on 2026-09-02.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=CR&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=CR&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 Costa Rica 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=CR&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 |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07T10:45 | Hospitalidad internacional, lujo tropical y exotismo asiático: RIU Hotels & Resorts de | hoydondeestamos.com |
2026-09-07T10:36 | Ciclismo épico, resiliencia y fiesta deportiva en Guanacaste: Andrey Amador vuelve a las pistas | hoydondeestamos.com |
2026-09-07T10:24 | Nutrición global, valor compartido y sostenibilidad ambiental: Nestlé conmemora 160 años en el | hoydondeestamos.com |
2026-09-07T10:08 | Empleabilidad global, desarrollo profesional y liderazgo joven: Kraft Heinz abre convocatoria e | hoydondeestamos.com |
2026-09-07T09:55 | Liderazgo ejecutivo, cultura corporativa e influencia ética: Sergio Meller analiza en INCAE y C | hoydondeestamos.com |
2026-09-07T07:00 | Abogadas alertan sobre trabas que frenan la titulación de tierras en la Vertiente Atlántica | acontecer.co.cr |
2026-09-07T06:00 | Acontecer Matutino — Lunes, 7 de septiembre de 2026 | acontecer.co.cr |
2026-09-07T05:01 | ¿Cómo puede Android recordarle dónde dejó sus llaves, billetera u otros objetos? | CR Hoy | crhoy.com |
Who publishes it
The 19 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
www.nacion.com | 4,210 | 30.8% | query |
www.lateja.cr | 2,667 | 19.5% | query |
www.diarioextra.com | 2,007 | 14.7% | query |
www.repretel.com | 1,772 | 13.0% | query |
crhoy.com | 923 | 6.8% | query |
www.elfinancierocr.com | 507 | 3.7% | query |
delfino.cr | 335 | 2.5% | query |
acontecer.co.cr | 247 | 1.8% | query |
www.tvsur.co.cr | 241 | 1.8% | query |
hoydondeestamos.com | 156 | 1.1% | query |
www.telediario.cr | 142 | 1.0% | query |
tomepalpinto.com | 122 | 0.9% | query |
surcosdigital.com | 102 | 0.7% | query |
periodicogente.co.cr | 95 | 0.7% | query |
caribeactual.com | 61 | 0.4% | query |
qcostarica.com | 57 | 0.4% | query |
ticotimes.net | 7 | 0.1% | query |
www.periodicomensaje.com | 6 | 0.0% | query |
lajornadanet.com | 1 | 0.0% | query |
Languages published in Costa Rica
What this country actually publishes in, which is often more than one language and rarely what a single language filter would suggest.
Domain zones used by Costa Rica publishers
Publishers here do not all use the national zone. This is the split that country inference has to work against.
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 | 40 | |
2026-09-06 | 364 | |
2026-09-05 | 373 | |
2026-09-04 | 499 | |
2026-09-03 | 532 | |
2026-09-02 | 538 | |
2026-09-01 | 290 | |
2026-08-31 | 245 | |
2026-08-30 | 256 | |
2026-08-29 | 369 | |
2026-08-28 | 470 | |
2026-08-27 | 517 | |
2026-08-26 | 525 | |
2026-08-25 | 462 |
Combine with other filters
# Costa Rica, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=CR&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Costa Rica, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=CR&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Costa Rica, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=CR&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"