News from Taiwan
605,101 news articles from publishers in Taiwan, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is www.yahoo.com with 302,028 articles, 49.9% of the total, followed by udn.com, www.worldjournal.com. By language it splits into English (323,734), Chinese (251,350), zh_tw (29,993). Daily volume averages about 8,305 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 13,085 on 2026-10-15.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=TW&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=TW&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 Taiwan 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=TW&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 |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-23T04:14 | 薔琵暴風圈將觸陸！最強風雨來了 全台停班停課一覽 | www.setn.com |
2026-10-23T03:55 | PHP爆漏洞多國網站急搶修 駭客嘗試攻擊數百萬次 | www.cna.com.tw |
2026-10-23T03:54 | 川普告BBC誹謗求償百億美元 法官限期12/11前宣誓作證 | www.cna.com.tw |
2026-10-23T03:47 | 藍營狂罵戴立安民調不準！黃暐瀚怒槓：內部早知不妙才封鎖消息 | www.setn.com |
2026-10-23T03:37 | 葉門叛軍襲沙烏地加劇中東供應疑慮 油價大漲 | www.cna.com.tw |
2026-10-23T03:10 | 藥華藥澳洲再下一城！結盟CRO龍頭 | www.setn.com |
2026-10-23T03:03 | 日62歲公務員領退休金400萬想賺更多！瞞妻投資炒股 結局讓人驚嘆連連 | www.setn.com |
2026-10-23T03:00 | 13家金控前三季獲利出爐！中信金年增率墊底？專家爆驚人真相 | www.setn.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
www.yahoo.com | 302,028 | 49.9% | query |
udn.com | 87,459 | 14.5% | query |
www.worldjournal.com | 29,312 | 4.8% | query |
www.chinatimes.com | 27,186 | 4.5% | query |
www.setn.com | 24,644 | 4.1% | query |
www.nownews.com | 18,120 | 3.0% | query |
finance.yahoo.com | 17,725 | 2.9% | query |
www.cna.com.tw | 15,151 | 2.5% | query |
ctinews.com | 12,890 | 2.1% | query |
thetaiwantimes.com | 7,469 | 1.2% | query |
www.ctwant.com | 6,552 | 1.1% | query |
www.ithome.com | 5,926 | 1.0% | query |
news.cnyes.com | 4,697 | 0.8% | query |
www.nexttv.com.tw | 3,732 | 0.6% | query |
pronews.tw | 3,393 | 0.6% | query |
newstaiwan.net | 3,104 | 0.5% | query |
tsna.com | 2,807 | 0.5% | query |
tyenews.com | 2,133 | 0.4% | query |
www.businesstoday.com.tw | 2,024 | 0.3% | query |
886.news | 1,920 | 0.3% | query |
morningtaiwan.org | 1,693 | 0.3% | query |
focustaiwan.tw | 1,599 | 0.3% | query |
travel.udn.com | 1,140 | 0.2% | query |
www.walkerland.com.tw | 1,090 | 0.2% | query |
icook.tw | 1,042 | 0.2% | query |
Languages published in Taiwan
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 Taiwan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| com | global commercial | 559,482 | 92.5% |
| tw | Taiwan | 36,013 | 6.0% |
| net | global network | 4,146 | 0.7% |
| org | organisations | 1,940 | 0.3% |
| news | news publications | 1,920 | 0.3% |
| cc | generic | 636 | 0.1% |
| media | media | 419 | 0.1% |
| mg | mg | 221 | 0.0% |
| events | events | 164 | 0.0% |
| blog | blogs | 160 | 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 | |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22 | 10,163 | |
2026-10-21 | 9,457 | |
2026-10-20 | 3,246 | |
2026-10-19 | 3,219 | |
2026-10-18 | 7,283 | |
2026-10-17 | 7,743 | |
2026-10-16 | 12,247 | |
2026-10-15 | 13,085 | |
2026-10-14 | 13,293 | |
2026-10-13 | 12,422 | |
2026-10-12 | 11,199 | |
2026-10-11 | 7,237 | |
2026-10-10 | 7,698 | |
2026-10-09 | 11,105 |
Combine with other filters
# Taiwan, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=TW&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Taiwan, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=TW&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Taiwan, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=TW&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"