News in Sinhala
6,036 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 3,628 articles, 60.1% of the total, followed by www.aruna.lk, edubourse.com. By country it splits into Sri Lanka (6,029), France (7). Daily volume averages about 71 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 103 on 2026-10-22.
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 |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22T20:05 | Brook's Blitz and Sri Lanka's Batting Collapse Rewrite the Record Books in Dramatic Test Encoun | www.lankanewspapers.com |
2026-10-22T18:00 | Gnanasara Thero's Court Appearance Tomorrow Cancelled, Ministry Tells Sangha Sabha | www.lankanewspapers.com |
2026-10-22T17:37 | වස් කවියක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් කිසිදු පුද්ගලයෙකුගෙන් ප්රකාශයක් සටහන් කරගැනීමක් සිදුකර නැහැ - දෙමටගොඩ ප | www.aruna.lk |
2026-10-22T17:29 | ජීවන වියදම් හමුවේ බංග්ලාදේශයේ පවුල් ණය බරින් පීඩාවට | www.aruna.lk |
2026-10-22T17:15 | Janith Liyanage's Match-Winning Innings Steers Sri Lanka to Victory | www.lankanewspapers.com |
2026-10-22T17:05 | Sri Lanka Stun England in Thrilling ODI Upset to Remember | www.lankanewspapers.com |
2026-10-22T16:45 | Historic Chase: Sri Lanka Stun England with Second-Highest Successful ODI Run Chase in Tri-Seri | www.lankanewspapers.com |
2026-10-22T16:32 | ශ්රී ලංකාවට ඉතිහාසගත ජයක් | www.aruna.lk |
Who publishes it
The 3 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
www.lankanewspapers.com | 3,628 | 60.1% | query |
www.aruna.lk | 2,401 | 39.8% | query |
edubourse.com | 7 | 0.1% | query |
Countries publishing in Sinhala
A language is rarely one country. Filter by both when you need a specific national perspective.
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 | |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22 | 103 | |
2026-10-21 | 79 | |
2026-10-20 | 58 | |
2026-10-19 | 25 | |
2026-10-18 | 101 | |
2026-10-17 | 90 | |
2026-10-16 | 48 | |
2026-10-15 | 66 | |
2026-10-14 | 77 | |
2026-10-13 | 112 | |
2026-10-12 | 103 | |
2026-10-11 | 157 | |
2026-10-10 | 123 | |
2026-10-09 | 128 |
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"