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Ada Derana English API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Ada Derana English publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 1,031 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

Sri LankaEnglish#5,818 by volume

Four ways to pull adaderana.lk

All four are ours, all four are live, and none of them needs a key.

JSON Search this publisher

Every article we hold from adaderana.lk, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=adaderana.lk&size=20"open it →

RSS Subscribe in any reader

The same articles as an RSS 2.0 feed. Works in Feedly, Inoreader, Thunderbird — anywhere.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/rss?host=adaderana.lk&size=50"open it →

JSON Feed For apps

JSON Feed 1.1, the same content in a format apps parse natively.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/feed.json?host=adaderana.lk&size=50"open it →

Trimmed For agents

Only the fields an agent needs — title, url, date, language — so the response stays small.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=adaderana.lk&size=20&fields=title,url,published_at,lang"open it →

What this outlet covers, by share of its recent output:

crime 23%politics 19%transport 17%conflict 8%

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Ada Derana English headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=adaderana.lk&size=5"
1,031
articles indexed
430
in the last 30 days
48
median per day
1
languages
1279 min
median crawl lag
15.07 → 08.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 25 days. The busiest hour is 00:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-07-15: 1 articles2026-07-27: 60 articles2026-07-28: 70 articles2026-07-29: 4 articles2026-07-31: 37 articles2026-08-01: 37 articles2026-08-02: 55 articles2026-08-03: 70 articles2026-08-04: 84 articles2026-08-05: 61 articles2026-08-06: 3 articles2026-08-24: 12 articles2026-08-25: 63 articles2026-08-26: 45 articles2026-08-27: 48 articles2026-08-28: 33 articles2026-08-29: 28 articles2026-09-01: 3 articles2026-09-02: 56 articles2026-09-03: 67 articles2026-09-04: 56 articles2026-09-05: 30 articles2026-09-06: 53 articles2026-09-07: 51 articles2026-09-08: 5 articles07-1507-3108-0408-2508-2909-0409-08
bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=adaderana.lk&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Ada Derana English actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 1,031 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 1740001: 590102: 610203: 470304: 520405: 590506: 600607: 500708: 570809: 610910: 611011: 581112: 431213: 411314: 481415: 351516: 401617: 81718: 01819: 01920: 02021: 02122: 22223: 1623
Mon: 193MonTue: 225TueWed: 167WedThu: 118ThuFri: 126FriSat: 95SatSun: 108Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 53% of their articles.

SectionArticles
crime550
politics550
transport550

Languages

The site identifies itself under Ada Derana English, Ada Derana, adaderana.lk, 2 arrested over Rs. 2M bribery charge linked to Peradeniya Hospital tender | Sri Lanka News | Ada Derana, Ex-SriLankan Airlines Chairman Nishantha Wickramasinghe's bribery case deferred to Dec. | Sri Lanka News | Ada Derana — separate editions publishing under one domain.

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish1,032100.1%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent Ada Derana English articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

Harvest it all

Page through the archive by date. from and to accept YYYY-MM-DD or relative values such as now-7d.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=adaderana.lk&from=now-7d&size=100"

To poll for new material, keep the timestamp of the newest article you saw and ask only for what came after it:

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=adaderana.lk&from=now-1h&sort=date_asc"

Article bodies come with full_text=true. No key, no quota tier, no header — see the search endpoint for every parameter.

Metadata quality

How well Ada Derana English marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

34%
dates from JSON-LD
34%
articles with a byline
53%
articles with sections
272 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 1279 min at the median, 2827 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Ada Derana English have an official API?

Not a public one. This endpoint is the practical alternative: their articles as structured JSON, with title, lead, publication time, section, byline and a link back to the original.

How do I get their RSS feed?

Most publishers expose one at /rss or /feed, but feeds carry only the last few dozen items and drop them within hours. This index keeps 1,031 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Ada Derana English publish per day?

48 on a median day, measured across 25 days.

Can I use this commercially?

The API is free and unauthenticated. What you may do with the content is between you and the publisher: we return metadata, a lead paragraph and a link, not a licence.