News from Sri Lanka
12,148 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 8,501 articles, 70.0% of the total, followed by www.battinews.com, adaderana.lk. By language it splits into English (9,385), Sinhala (1,320). Daily volume averages about 173 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 250 on 2026-09-06.
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 |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07T11:17 | අම්පිටියේ සුමනරතන හිමියන් අත්අඩංගුවට | srihanda.lk |
2026-09-07T11:05 | බත්තිකලෝආ අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීමෙන් පසු පූජ්ය අම්පිටියේ සුමනරතන හිමියන් හෙට දක්වා රිමාන්ඩ් | www.lankanewspapers.com |
2026-09-07T11:05 | Ven. Ampitiye Sumanarathana Thero Remanded Until Tomorrow Following Batticaloa Arrest | www.lankanewspapers.com |
2026-09-07T10:56 | නාමල් රාජපක්ෂට බන්ධනාගාරය තුළ විශේෂ පහසුකම් සලසා දී ඇත | www.lankanewspapers.com |
2026-09-07T10:55 | Namal Rajapaksa Granted Special Arrangements Inside Prison Following Remand | www.lankanewspapers.com |
2026-09-07T10:46 | Upcountry Railway Line Repairs Nearing Completion, Services Set to Resume | www.list.lk |
2026-09-07T10:32 | කොළඹ සහ ජකර්තා අතර ශ්රීලන්කන් ගුවන් ගමන් වහාම ක්රියාත්මක වන පරිදි අවලංගු කෙරේ | www.aruna.lk |
2026-09-07T10:31 | Monk Arrested in Batticaloa for Allegedly Obstructing Mines Bureau Officials | www.list.lk |
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 | 8,501 | 70.0% | query |
www.battinews.com | 1,444 | 11.9% | query |
adaderana.lk | 976 | 8.0% | query |
www.aruna.lk | 378 | 3.1% | query |
www.onlanka.com | 308 | 2.5% | query |
www.colombotelegraph.com | 137 | 1.1% | query |
www.lankabusinessonline.com | 124 | 1.0% | query |
www.list.lk | 121 | 1.0% | query |
srihanda.lk | 109 | 0.9% | query |
thuppahis.com | 49 | 0.4% | 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 | |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07 | 122 | |
2026-09-06 | 250 | |
2026-09-05 | 201 | |
2026-09-04 | 244 | |
2026-09-03 | 229 | |
2026-09-02 | 193 | |
2026-09-01 | 70 | |
2026-08-31 | 77 | |
2026-08-30 | 124 | |
2026-08-29 | 217 | |
2026-08-28 | 186 | |
2026-08-27 | 212 | |
2026-08-26 | 220 | |
2026-08-25 | 177 |
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"