News from Sri Lanka
14,252 news articles from publishers in Sri Lanka, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is www.lankanewspapers.com with 8,296 articles, 58.2% of the total, followed by www.aruna.lk, www.battinews.com. By language it splits into English (6,882), Sinhala (6,029). Daily volume averages about 113 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 151 on 2026-10-22.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=LK&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=LK&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 Sri Lanka 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=LK&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 |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22T20:05 | Brook's Blitz and Sri Lanka's Batting Collapse Rewrite the Record Books in Dramatic Test Encoun | www.lankanewspapers.com |
2026-10-22T19:35 | History Made in Kandy: Brook's Masterclass and Sri Lanka's Record-Breaking Test Performance | www.lankanewspapers.com |
2026-10-22T18:00 | Gnanasara Thero's Court Appearance Tomorrow Cancelled, Ministry Tells Sangha Sabha | www.lankanewspapers.com |
2026-10-22T17:37 | වස් කවියක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් කිසිදු පුද්ගලයෙකුගෙන් ප්රකාශයක් සටහන් කරගැනීමක් සිදුකර නැහැ - දෙමටගොඩ ප | www.aruna.lk |
2026-10-22T17:29 | ජීවන වියදම් හමුවේ බංග්ලාදේශයේ පවුල් ණය බරින් පීඩාවට | www.aruna.lk |
2026-10-22T17:15 | Janith Liyanage's Match-Winning Innings Steers Sri Lanka to Victory | www.lankanewspapers.com |
2026-10-22T17:05 | Sri Lanka Stun England in Thrilling ODI Upset to Remember | www.lankanewspapers.com |
2026-10-22T16:45 | Historic Chase: Sri Lanka Stun England with Second-Highest Successful ODI Run Chase in Tri-Seri | www.lankanewspapers.com |
Who publishes it
The 11 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
www.lankanewspapers.com | 8,296 | 58.2% | query |
www.aruna.lk | 2,401 | 16.8% | query |
www.battinews.com | 1,341 | 9.4% | query |
adaderana.lk | 1,031 | 7.2% | query |
www.list.lk | 353 | 2.5% | query |
www.onlanka.com | 317 | 2.2% | query |
srihanda.lk | 300 | 2.1% | query |
thuppahis.com | 150 | 1.1% | query |
www.colombotelegraph.com | 39 | 0.3% | query |
www.lankabusinessonline.com | 22 | 0.2% | query |
hosadigantha.com | 2 | 0.0% | query |
Languages published in Sri Lanka
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 Sri Lanka 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 | |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22 | 151 | |
2026-10-21 | 119 | |
2026-10-20 | 60 | |
2026-10-19 | 35 | |
2026-10-18 | 148 | |
2026-10-17 | 142 | |
2026-10-16 | 119 | |
2026-10-15 | 130 | |
2026-10-14 | 134 | |
2026-10-13 | 203 | |
2026-10-12 | 164 | |
2026-10-11 | 213 | |
2026-10-10 | 190 | |
2026-10-09 | 199 |
Combine with other filters
# Sri Lanka, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=LK&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Sri Lanka, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=LK&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Sri Lanka, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=LK&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"