News in Sinhala
1,320 news articles written in Sinhala, across every country that publishes in it, free to search without an API key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is www.lankanewspapers.com with 942 articles, 71.4% of the total, followed by www.aruna.lk. By country it splits into Sri Lanka (1,320). Daily volume averages about 99 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 142 on 2026-09-06.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=si&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=si&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 |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07T11:05 | බත්තිකලෝආ අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීමෙන් පසු පූජ්ය අම්පිටියේ සුමනරතන හිමියන් හෙට දක්වා රිමාන්ඩ් | www.lankanewspapers.com |
2026-09-07T10:56 | නාමල් රාජපක්ෂට බන්ධනාගාරය තුළ විශේෂ පහසුකම් සලසා දී ඇත | www.lankanewspapers.com |
2026-09-07T10:32 | කොළඹ සහ ජකර්තා අතර ශ්රීලන්කන් ගුවන් ගමන් වහාම ක්රියාත්මක වන පරිදි අවලංගු කෙරේ | www.aruna.lk |
2026-09-07T10:27 | ප්රබල අකුණු පිළිබඳව අවවාදාත්මක නිවේදනයක් | www.aruna.lk |
2026-09-07T09:46 | දස වසරකට පසු මැදවච්චිය ආර්ථික මධ්යස්ථානය ජනතාවට විවෘත වෙයි | www.aruna.lk |
2026-09-07T09:21 | දස වසරකට පසු මැදවච්චිය ආර්ථික මධ්යෂ්ථානය ජනතාවට විවෘත වෙයි | www.aruna.lk |
2026-09-07T09:13 | ශ්රී ලංකාව 2025 දී රුධිර පරිත්යාග 467,000ක් සමඟ ඓතිහාසික සන්ධිස්ථානයක් අත්කර ගනී | www.lankanewspapers.com |
2026-09-07T09:12 | කුමාර ජයකොඩිට එරෙහි නඩුවේ වැඩිදුර සාක්ෂි විභාගය ඔක්තෝබර් 05 වැනිදා | www.aruna.lk |
Who publishes it
The 2 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
Countries publishing in Sinhala
A language is rarely one country. Filter by both when you need a specific national perspective.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| LK | Sri Lanka | 1,320 | 100.0% |
Domain zones
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 | 82 | |
2026-09-06 | 142 | |
2026-09-05 | 117 | |
2026-09-04 | 127 | |
2026-09-03 | 123 | |
2026-09-02 | 104 | |
2026-09-01 | 44 | |
2026-08-31 | 55 | |
2026-08-30 | 93 | |
2026-08-29 | 124 | |
2026-08-28 | 101 | |
2026-08-27 | 88 | |
2026-08-26 | 91 | |
2026-08-25 | 29 |
Combine with other filters
# Sinhala, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=si&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Sinhala, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=si&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Sinhala, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=si&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"