News from Saudi Arabia
82,884 news articles from publishers in Saudi Arabia, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is sahafahh.net with 26,640 articles, 32.1% of the total, followed by www.okaz.com.sa, gulf365.net. By language it splits into Arabic (77,774), English (5,111). Daily volume averages about 4,254 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 6,523 on 2026-09-06.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=SA&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=SA&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 Saudi Arabia 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=SA&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 |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07T14:41 | "الدار" تطلق مشروع "ساي السعديات" في المنطقة الثقافية بالسعديات | www.albarjeel.com |
2026-09-07T14:41 | "مِراس" ترسي عقداً لأعمال بناء "سيتي ووك كريستلين" بـ 590 مليون درهم | www.albarjeel.com |
2026-09-07T14:40 | "أبوظبي للجودة والمطابقة" يطلق أول بطاقة مهارات رقمية موثقة عبر تقنية البلوك تشين | www.albarjeel.com |
2026-09-07T14:40 | المجمّع الثقافي يعلن برنامجه الثقافي لموسم سبتمبر إلى ديسمبر | www.albarjeel.com |
2026-09-07T14:39 | غرفة دبي للاقتصاد الرقمي تقدم أدوات "كانفا" مجاناً للشركات الصغيرة والمتوسطة | www.albarjeel.com |
2026-09-07T14:38 | تراجع مؤشر الدولار و"بتكوين" فوق 80 ألف دولار | www.albarjeel.com |
2026-09-07T14:38 | استقرار أسعار الذهب وتباين أداء المعادن النفيسة الأخرى | www.albarjeel.com |
2026-09-07T14:38 | النفط يواصل ارتفاعه و"برنت" عند 96.80 دولار للبرميل | www.albarjeel.com |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
sahafahh.net | 26,640 | 32.1% | query |
www.okaz.com.sa | 12,853 | 15.5% | query |
gulf365.net | 7,950 | 9.6% | query |
arriyadiyah.com | 7,703 | 9.3% | query |
www.arabnews.com | 3,873 | 4.7% | query |
mrj3y.com | 3,679 | 4.4% | query |
www.goal.com | 2,750 | 3.3% | query |
gksa.net | 2,239 | 2.7% | query |
albarjeel.com | 2,101 | 2.5% | query |
www.albarjeel.com | 1,923 | 2.3% | query |
ajel.sa | 1,836 | 2.2% | query |
www.mobtada.com | 1,580 | 1.9% | query |
halalkhalij.com | 1,205 | 1.5% | query |
www.sayidaty.net | 961 | 1.2% | query |
sabq.org | 943 | 1.1% | query |
hasad-alyoum.com | 784 | 0.9% | query |
www.aleqt.com | 773 | 0.9% | query |
news50.sa | 749 | 0.9% | query |
sanews.sa | 382 | 0.5% | query |
makkahnewspaper.com | 263 | 0.3% | query |
saudigazette.com.sa | 239 | 0.3% | query |
propertymiddleeast.com | 219 | 0.3% | query |
saudishopper.com.sa | 197 | 0.2% | query |
atharawareness.com | 187 | 0.2% | query |
wa1al1.com | 157 | 0.2% | query |
Languages published in Saudi Arabia
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 Saudi Arabia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| net | global network | 38,027 | 45.9% |
| com | global commercial | 27,651 | 33.4% |
| sa | Saudi Arabia | 16,263 | 19.6% |
| org | organisations | 944 | 1.1% |
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 | 1,846 | |
2026-09-06 | 6,523 | |
2026-09-05 | 4,669 | |
2026-09-04 | 4,012 | |
2026-09-03 | 2,906 | |
2026-09-02 | 4,925 | |
2026-09-01 | 4,563 | |
2026-08-31 | 4,584 | |
2026-08-30 | 4,283 | |
2026-08-29 | 3,772 | |
2026-08-28 | 3,685 | |
2026-08-27 | 3,397 | |
2026-08-26 | 1,733 | |
2026-08-25 | 1,232 |
Combine with other filters
# Saudi Arabia, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=SA&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Saudi Arabia, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=SA&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Saudi Arabia, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=SA&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"