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Athol Daily News API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Athol Daily News publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 90 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United StatesEnglish#12,541 by volume

Four ways to pull atholdailynews.com

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

JSON Search this publisher

Every article we hold from atholdailynews.com, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

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

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

society 40%crime 30%politics 30%

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Athol Daily News headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=atholdailynews.com&size=5"
90
articles indexed
60
in the last 30 days
6
median per day
1
languages
205 min
median crawl lag
25.08 → 02.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 9 days. The busiest hour is 14:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-25: 8 articles2026-08-26: 8 articles2026-08-27: 5 articles2026-08-28: 11 articles2026-08-29: 4 articles2026-08-30: 10 articles2026-08-31: 6 articles2026-09-01: 4 articles2026-09-02: 4 articles08-2508-2608-2708-2808-2908-3008-3109-0109-02
bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=atholdailynews.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Athol Daily News actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 90 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 00001: 00102: 00203: 00304: 00405: 50506: 00607: 00708: 00809: 00910: 11011: 01112: 01213: 01314: 171415: 81516: 151617: 101718: 21819: 01920: 12021: 02122: 02223: 123
Mon: 6MonTue: 12TueWed: 12WedThu: 5ThuFri: 11FriSat: 4SatSun: 10Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 22% of their articles.

SectionArticles
crime13
politics13
society13

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish6066.7%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent Athol Daily News 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=atholdailynews.com&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=atholdailynews.com&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 Athol Daily News marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

0%
dates from JSON-LD
0%
articles with a byline
22%
articles with sections
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 205 min at the median, 2962 minutes at the 90th percentile.

FAQ

Does Athol Daily News 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 90 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Athol Daily News publish per day?

6 on a median day, measured across 9 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.