News in Icelandic
13,517 news articles written in Icelandic, across every country that publishes in it, free to search without an API key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is www.visir.is with 7,999 articles, 59.2% of the total, followed by www.dv.is, www.feykir.is. By country it splits into Iceland (13,448), Netherlands (62), France (7). Daily volume averages about 163 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 203 on 2026-10-21.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=is&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=is&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.
| Published | Headline | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22T20:14 | Verðlauna veitingastaður opnar í Vík í Mýrdal | www.sunnlenska.is |
2026-10-22T18:34 | Flúði lögreglu en bílnúmerið varð eftir á vettvangi | frettatiminn.is |
2026-10-22T15:53 | Rekstrartekjur bankanna 249 milljarðar og jukust um 10% | frettatiminn.is |
2026-10-22T15:23 | Leggjum niður erfðafjárskatt | frettatiminn.is |
2026-10-22T15:18 | Evropuþingmenn veita ICC og blaðamannarannsóknum verðlaun | iede.news |
2026-10-22T14:51 | Vörubíll og jeppi skullu saman á Vesturlandsvegi | frettatiminn.is |
2026-10-22T10:36 | Seðlabankinn sýknaður af bótakröfu Þorsteins Más | frettatiminn.is |
2026-10-22T10:16 | Fjölbýlishúsin við Tryggvagötu Svansvottuð | www.sunnlenska.is |
Who publishes it
The 9 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
www.visir.is | 7,999 | 59.2% | query |
www.dv.is | 3,944 | 29.2% | query |
www.feykir.is | 413 | 3.1% | query |
www.vikubladid.is | 372 | 2.8% | query |
www.sunnlenska.is | 326 | 2.4% | query |
vatnsidnadur.net | 216 | 1.6% | query |
frettatiminn.is | 178 | 1.3% | query |
iede.news | 62 | 0.5% | query |
edubourse.com | 7 | 0.1% | query |
Countries publishing in Icelandic
A language is rarely one country. Filter by both when you need a specific national perspective.
Domain zones
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| is | Iceland | 13,232 | 97.9% |
| net | global network | 216 | 1.6% |
| news | news publications | 62 | 0.5% |
| com | global commercial | 7 | 0.1% |
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 | |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22 | 138 | |
2026-10-21 | 203 | |
2026-10-20 | 179 | |
2026-10-19 | 189 | |
2026-10-18 | 104 | |
2026-10-17 | 112 | |
2026-10-16 | 182 | |
2026-10-15 | 194 | |
2026-10-14 | 181 | |
2026-10-13 | 163 | |
2026-10-12 | 200 | |
2026-10-11 | 111 | |
2026-10-10 | 109 | |
2026-10-09 | 208 |
Combine with other filters
# Icelandic, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=is&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Icelandic, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=is&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Icelandic, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=is&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"