News in French
692,753 news articles written in French, across every country that publishes in it, free to search without an API key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is unidivers.fr with 102,161 articles, 14.7% of the total, followed by www.boursorama.com, fr.allafrica.com. By country it splits into France (480,533), Switzerland (28,294), Canada (25,619) and 22 more. Daily volume averages about 15,466 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 23,259 on 2026-09-04.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=fr&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?lang=fr&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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
unidivers.fr | 102,161 | 14.7% | query |
www.boursorama.com | 37,723 | 5.4% | query |
fr.allafrica.com | 22,673 | 3.3% | query |
www.goal.com | 21,202 | 3.1% | query |
actualitte.com | 11,948 | 1.7% | query |
zamin.uz | 10,274 | 1.5% | query |
www.blick.ch | 8,573 | 1.2% | query |
www.footmercato.net | 7,178 | 1.0% | query |
actu.fr | 6,635 | 1.0% | query |
www.aufeminin.com | 5,821 | 0.8% | query |
www.grazia.fr | 5,323 | 0.8% | query |
www.football365.fr | 5,130 | 0.7% | query |
www.newswire.ca | 5,111 | 0.7% | query |
lecourrier.vn | 4,821 | 0.7% | query |
beninwebtv.com | 4,738 | 0.7% | query |
beninwebtv.bj | 4,722 | 0.7% | query |
le10sport.com | 4,545 | 0.7% | query |
www.bluewin.ch | 4,391 | 0.6% | query |
entrevue.fr | 4,382 | 0.6% | query |
www.senenews.com | 4,335 | 0.6% | query |
www.watson.ch | 4,220 | 0.6% | query |
www.peaches.fr | 4,026 | 0.6% | query |
www.babnet.net | 3,934 | 0.6% | query |
www.985fm.ca | 3,761 | 0.5% | query |
www.la-croix.com | 3,738 | 0.5% | query |
Countries publishing in French
A language is rarely one country. Filter by both when you need a specific national perspective.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| FR | France | 480,533 | 69.4% |
| CH | Switzerland | 28,294 | 4.1% |
| CA | Canada | 25,619 | 3.7% |
| BE | Belgium | 14,535 | 2.1% |
| SN | Senegal | 13,410 | 1.9% |
| UZ | Uzbekistan | 10,323 | 1.5% |
| BJ | BJ | 9,728 | 1.4% |
| MA | Morocco | 7,900 | 1.1% |
| VN | Vietnam | 7,199 | 1.0% |
| AR | Argentina | 4,124 | 0.6% |
| TN | Tunisia | 3,854 | 0.6% |
| DZ | Algeria | 2,398 | 0.3% |
| IL | Israel | 2,087 | 0.3% |
| TG | TG | 1,784 | 0.3% |
| US | United States | 1,632 | 0.2% |
Domain zones
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| fr | France | 288,019 | 41.6% |
| com | global commercial | 270,778 | 39.1% |
| ch | Switzerland | 27,573 | 4.0% |
| net | global network | 21,663 | 3.1% |
| ca | Canada | 15,153 | 2.2% |
| be | Belgium | 14,105 | 2.0% |
| uz | Uzbekistan | 10,323 | 1.5% |
| vn | Vietnam | 7,199 | 1.0% |
| info | information | 5,836 | 0.8% |
| bj | bj | 5,065 | 0.7% |
| org | organisations | 4,317 | 0.6% |
| ma | Morocco | 4,286 | 0.6% |
| tv | media | 2,631 | 0.4% |
| online | online | 2,121 | 0.3% |
| tn | Tunisia | 1,898 | 0.3% |
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 | 7,439 | |
2026-09-06 | 15,378 | |
2026-09-05 | 15,688 | |
2026-09-04 | 23,259 | |
2026-09-03 | 18,658 | |
2026-09-02 | 16,612 | |
2026-09-01 | 14,141 | |
2026-08-31 | 12,550 | |
2026-08-30 | 11,681 | |
2026-08-29 | 19,689 | |
2026-08-28 | 19,895 | |
2026-08-27 | 20,297 | |
2026-08-26 | 16,427 | |
2026-08-25 | 11,123 |
Combine with other filters
# French, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=fr&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# French, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=fr&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# French, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=fr&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"