News from Netherlands
104,256 news articles from publishers in Netherlands, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is www.omroepbrabant.nl with 13,424 articles, 12.9% of the total, followed by nieuws.nl, www.welingelichtekringen.nl. By language it splits into Dutch (99,670), English (2,275), Spanish (230) and 22 more. Daily volume averages about 2,456 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 3,482 on 2026-09-04.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=NL&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=NL&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 Netherlands 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=NL&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 |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07T17:00 | Damsko | www.at5.nl |
2026-09-07T13:10 | Kleine duinbrand aan Egelantierpad in IJmuiden | www.jutter.nl |
2026-09-07T13:08 | John van Meer: ‘Bitcoin botst op weerstand, maar deze munt kan 45% stijgen’ | www.crypto-insiders.nl |
2026-09-07T13:05 | Open dag gerechtshof op zaterdag 12 september | www.waldnet.nl |
2026-09-07T13:02 | Vasseur hint op Ferrari-teamorders: 'Nu tijd om besluit te nemen' | formule1nieuws.nl |
2026-09-07T13:00 | Trump stelt voor om de naam van de staat New Mexico te veranderen in „New America“ | mallorca-nieuws.nl |
2026-09-07T13:00 | De favoriete herfstbestemming van de Spaanse middenklasse: aangename temperaturen en een histor | elegance.nl |
2026-09-07T13:00 | Verjongen door 'studentenbloed'? Dit zegt de wetenschap over de opmerkelijkste anti-a | gezondnu.nl |
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.omroepbrabant.nl | 13,424 | 12.9% | query |
nieuws.nl | 11,993 | 11.5% | query |
www.welingelichtekringen.nl | 8,034 | 7.7% | query |
www.ad.nl | 5,504 | 5.3% | query |
www.fcupdate.nl | 3,227 | 3.1% | query |
www.gptoday.net | 2,793 | 2.7% | query |
www.hartvannederland.nl | 2,425 | 2.3% | query |
www.f1head.nl | 2,321 | 2.2% | query |
www.gpfans.com | 2,215 | 2.1% | query |
www.autoblog.nl | 1,928 | 1.8% | query |
sportnieuws.nl | 1,844 | 1.8% | query |
www.ajax1.nl | 1,829 | 1.8% | query |
www.oogtv.nl | 1,501 | 1.4% | query |
www.westerwoldeactueel.nl | 1,393 | 1.3% | query |
www.androidplanet.nl | 1,251 | 1.2% | query |
www.iphoned.nl | 1,097 | 1.1% | query |
nos.nl | 858 | 0.8% | query |
gameliner.nl | 835 | 0.8% | query |
fashionunited.nl | 825 | 0.8% | query |
www.formule1.nl | 791 | 0.8% | query |
nl.motorsport.com | 780 | 0.7% | query |
aiplein.nl | 774 | 0.7% | query |
www.kaercher.com | 767 | 0.7% | query |
www.geenstijl.nl | 743 | 0.7% | query |
id.nl | 709 | 0.7% | query |
Languages published in Netherlands
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| nl | Dutch | 99,670 | 95.6% |
| en | English | 2,275 | 2.2% |
| es | Spanish | 230 | 0.2% |
| pt | Portuguese | 198 | 0.2% |
| fr | French | 82 | 0.1% |
| tr | Turkish | 59 | 0.1% |
| de | German | 53 | 0.1% |
| pl | Polish | 34 | 0.0% |
| fi | Finnish | 33 | 0.0% |
| it | Italian | 31 | 0.0% |
| no | Norwegian | 29 | 0.0% |
| sv | Swedish | 29 | 0.0% |
| da | Danish | 26 | 0.0% |
| zh | Chinese | 15 | 0.0% |
| hr | Croatian | 14 | 0.0% |
Domain zones used by Netherlands 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| nl | Netherlands | 92,851 | 89.1% |
| com | global commercial | 6,825 | 6.5% |
| net | global network | 3,471 | 3.3% |
| news | news publications | 509 | 0.5% |
| org | organisations | 184 | 0.2% |
| eu | European Union | 137 | 0.1% |
| tv | media | 133 | 0.1% |
| nu | nu | 95 | 0.1% |
| info | information | 25 | 0.0% |
| dev | developers | 23 | 0.0% |
| philips | philips | 5 | 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 | 978 | |
2026-09-06 | 2,751 | |
2026-09-05 | 2,609 | |
2026-09-04 | 3,482 | |
2026-09-03 | 2,690 | |
2026-09-02 | 2,592 | |
2026-09-01 | 2,397 | |
2026-08-31 | 2,149 | |
2026-08-30 | 1,911 | |
2026-08-29 | 2,551 | |
2026-08-28 | 3,542 | |
2026-08-27 | 3,509 | |
2026-08-26 | 2,535 | |
2026-08-25 | 1,760 |
Combine with other filters
# Netherlands, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=NL&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Netherlands, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=NL&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Netherlands, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=NL&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"