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Birchtree API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Birchtree publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 110 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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Four ways to pull birchtree.me

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

JSON Search this publisher

Every article we hold from birchtree.me, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

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

Call the API

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

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=birchtree.me&size=5"
110
articles indexed
39
in the last 30 days
1
median per day
2
languages
557 min
median crawl lag
09.06 → 04.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 57 days. The busiest hour is 22:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-06-09: 1 articles2026-06-11: 1 articles2026-06-12: 3 articles2026-06-13: 2 articles2026-06-14: 1 articles2026-06-15: 1 articles2026-06-16: 1 articles2026-06-18: 2 articles2026-06-22: 4 articles2026-06-23: 1 articles2026-06-24: 4 articles2026-06-25: 1 articles2026-06-26: 1 articles2026-06-27: 1 articles2026-06-28: 1 articles2026-06-30: 1 articles2026-07-02: 2 articles2026-07-07: 1 articles2026-07-08: 1 articles2026-07-09: 4 articles2026-07-12: 2 articles2026-07-14: 3 articles2026-07-16: 1 articles2026-07-17: 1 articles2026-07-18: 1 articles2026-07-19: 1 articles2026-07-21: 4 articles2026-07-22: 2 articles2026-07-23: 1 articles2026-07-24: 1 articles2026-07-26: 1 articles2026-07-27: 3 articles2026-07-28: 3 articles2026-07-30: 1 articles2026-08-01: 1 articles2026-08-02: 1 articles2026-08-03: 3 articles2026-08-04: 2 articles2026-08-05: 4 articles2026-08-06: 1 articles2026-08-08: 3 articles2026-08-11: 1 articles2026-08-15: 3 articles2026-08-17: 1 articles2026-08-19: 2 articles2026-08-20: 2 articles2026-08-22: 2 articles2026-08-24: 2 articles2026-08-27: 2 articles2026-08-28: 2 articles2026-08-29: 1 articles2026-08-30: 1 articles2026-08-31: 5 articles2026-09-01: 3 articles2026-09-02: 1 articles2026-09-03: 3 articles2026-09-04: 5 articles06-0906-2307-0807-2208-0308-2009-0209-04
bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=birchtree.me&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Birchtree actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 110 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 40001: 40102: 00203: 10304: 00405: 00506: 00607: 00708: 00809: 00910: 31011: 81112: 91213: 91314: 61415: 61516: 21617: 31718: 41819: 71920: 62021: 112122: 152223: 1223
Mon: 19MonTue: 21TueWed: 14WedThu: 21ThuFri: 13FriSat: 14SatSun: 8Sun

Languages

The site identifies itself under Birchtree, Aapl.se — separate editions publishing under one domain.

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish10595.5%
svSwedish54.5%

Latest articles

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

Comfort Zone is coming back this month
2026-09-04 22:20 UTC · Matt Birchler
Comfort Zone, the podcast I do with Chris and Niléane is coming back later this month! We've had a little time off, which actually was nice, maybe we should take a break
Chill racist games hosted by the US government
2026-09-04 15:42 UTC · Matt Birchler
Have you ever wanted to play a game of Snake where instead of eating fruit, you took control of a white guy arresting and reporting brown people? Well, the White House we
Den bästa iPhone-serien någonsin
2026-09-04 13:00 UTC
Casey Liss anser att den senaste iPhone-serien är den bästa hittills, med betydande förbättringar i Pro-modellerna och en framgångsrik Air-variant, men påpekar att iPhone
180 merges in 135 days
2026-09-04 10:12 UTC · Matt Birchler
I officially launched Quick Reads 135 days ago, and to say I've been working hard on it since is an understatement. Obviously, PRs aren't a perfect measure for productivi
Arc Raiders has faded away while I wasn't looking
2026-09-04 10:00 UTC · Matt Birchler
Jamie Hore: Are We Really Witnessing the "Downfall" of Arc Raiders? That’s according to a 9 August 2026 Twitter post from content creator ‘Adio’. The post was reacting to
NVIDIA is doing the iPhone thing
2026-09-03 23:00 UTC · Matt Birchler
Ben Thompson: Nvidia Earnings, Dollars Per Gigawatt, Open and Hugging Face Nvidia right now continues to be like Apple in the early years of the iPhone: for years forecas
The tech Apple will use to make the crease (mostly?) go away in their folding iPhone
2026-09-03 22:00 UTC · Matt Birchler
KIMGEON: Google, Oppo and Vivo to Adopt Dual UTG for Foldable Phones – Apple-led dual-UTG design doubles glass content per foldable device The lower UTG supports the OLED
Designed in California
2026-09-03 21:20 UTC · Matt Birchler
Myke Hurley: Designed in California is LIVE! We have published two episodes today in the free feed, which are the first of a seven-part series about Apple’s Mac OS crisis
Silo…in your browser
2026-09-02 19:14 UTC · Matt Birchler
Mastodon Birchtree Designer and creator. Birchtree proudly stands with our LGBTQ+ friends. ⌘K Home All Posts Member Posts Member Perks RSS Feed # Projects A Better Comput
Updates to Quick Reads, Reviews, and Subtitles for iOS
2026-09-01 19:16 UTC
It looks like AppReview is clearing the decks for next week's wave of OS 27 updates. Here's what's new from my apps today. Quick ReadsThis update catches the app up with
Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are here
2026-09-01 18:27 UTC · Matt Birchler
Anthropic: Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 are the same model, but with different levels of safeguards. I think
1Password with an unbelievable own goal
2026-09-01 15:19 UTC · Matt Birchler
Andrew Lilley Brinker: 1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe Omarchy is a Linux distribution created and controlled by David Heinemeier Hansson, usually known
You didn't write that, you're just a meat proxy
2026-08-31 23:47 UTC · Matt Birchler
sf-isms: Meat proxy A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay betwe
Hur min Mac mini blev infrastruktur för Quick Reads
2026-08-31 23:02 UTC
Podcasten diskuterar användningen av Mac mini för att stödja Quick Reads, där författaren beskriver kostnadseffektiviteten och sin stolthet över lösningen. Källa: Birchtr
Jason Snells produktivitetsval
2026-08-31 21:00 UTC
Jason Snell presenterade sina appval på Mac App Store, vilket uppskattades av många. Christina Warren och Stephen Robles följer upp med egna rekommendationer de kommande
Introducing Birchfeed, the best RSS app that works in your favorite RSS app already
2026-08-31 15:00 UTC · Matt Birchler
I've joked here and there that I should make an RSS app. I genuinely didn't really mean it, but a couple months ago, after doing some work with RSS in Quick Reads, I thou
Ansiktsdatorer kommer nog inte att bli en grej, eller?
2026-08-31 12:00 UTC
Trots tekniska framsteg och lägre priser har ansiktsdatorer och VR-headset ännu inte blivit mainstream. Apple arbetar på glasögon med kameror, men marknaden för denna tek
The unbearable weight of Metal Gear Solid 4's cutscenes
2026-08-30 22:06 UTC · Matt Birchler
I posted this weekend about how cutscene heavy Metal Gear Solid 4 is, and a few people went, "yup, that's Kojima for you!" But I want to stress how insane this game is, e

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=birchtree.me&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=birchtree.me&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 Birchtree marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

95%
dates from JSON-LD
95%
articles with a byline
0%
articles with sections
57 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 557 min at the median, 1520 minutes at the 90th percentile.

Similar publishers

Comparable outlets in the same language. Those without a page here yet link straight to their slice of the API.

FAQ

Does Birchtree 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 110 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Birchtree publish per day?

1 on a median day, measured across 57 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.