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Bendigo Advertiser API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Bendigo Advertiser publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 790 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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Four ways to pull bendigoadvertiser.com.au

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

JSON Search this publisher

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

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

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

sport 40%crime 30%society 30%

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Bendigo Advertiser headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au&size=5"
790
articles indexed
339
in the last 30 days
10
median per day
1
languages
148 min
median crawl lag
25.08 → 21.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 28 days. The busiest hour is 06:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-25: 5 articles2026-08-26: 18 articles2026-08-27: 22 articles2026-08-28: 26 articles2026-08-29: 11 articles2026-08-30: 7 articles2026-08-31: 6 articles2026-09-01: 3 articles2026-09-02: 10 articles2026-09-03: 25 articles2026-09-04: 19 articles2026-09-05: 11 articles2026-09-06: 10 articles2026-09-07: 11 articles2026-09-08: 6 articles2026-09-09: 8 articles2026-09-10: 8 articles2026-09-11: 12 articles2026-09-12: 8 articles2026-09-13: 5 articles2026-09-14: 7 articles2026-09-15: 19 articles2026-09-16: 14 articles2026-09-17: 32 articles2026-09-18: 17 articles2026-09-19: 10 articles2026-09-20: 8 articles2026-09-21: 1 articles08-2508-2909-0209-0609-1009-1409-1809-21
bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Bendigo Advertiser actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 790 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 160001: 240102: 140203: 120304: 150405: 140506: 270607: 180708: 130809: 150910: 161011: 261112: 121213: 131314: 111415: 61516: 111617: 81718: 61819: 41920: 252021: 172122: 112223: 523
Mon: 25MonTue: 33TueWed: 50WedThu: 87ThuFri: 74FriSat: 40SatSun: 30Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 46% of their articles.

SectionArticles
crime156
society156
sport156

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish33942.9%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent Bendigo Advertiser articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

They won six, but this will go down as the best of the Bulldogs' BFNL flags
2026-09-19 23:10 UTC
Gisborne is celebrating a remarkable farewell BFNL premiership.
BFNL 2026 grand final day blog - Bulldogs swing late change in selection shock
2026-09-19 04:03 UTC
Keeping you up to date with the BFNL's grand final action.
Bendigo FNL 2026 grand final day blog - relive all the action from the QEO
2026-09-19 04:03 UTC
How the BFNL's grand final day for 2026 unfolded at the QEO.
'The loudest bang': fresh info on man who allegedly crashed mum's car
2026-09-19 00:15 UTC
Charlie saw a flash and heard a huge bang. This is what happened.
'Deeply disappointed': Dja Dja Wurrung CEO slams Hanson's 'primitive' claim
2026-09-18 21:30 UTC
Bendigo's indigenous community hits back at One Nation leader.

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=www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au&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=www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au&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 Bendigo Advertiser 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
46%
articles with sections
—
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 148 min at the median, 3966 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Bendigo Advertiser 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 790 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Bendigo Advertiser publish per day?

10 on a median day, measured across 28 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.