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Busting Brackets API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Busting Brackets publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 307 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United StatesEnglish#6,682 by volume

Four ways to pull bustingbrackets.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 bustingbrackets.com, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

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

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

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Call the API

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

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=bustingbrackets.com&size=5"
307
articles indexed
281
in the last 30 days
9
median per day
1
languages
10074 min
median crawl lag
05.08 → 05.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 26 days. The busiest hour is 16:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-05: 5 articles2026-08-06: 7 articles2026-08-07: 9 articles2026-08-09: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-11: 6 articles2026-08-12: 8 articles2026-08-13: 8 articles2026-08-14: 9 articles2026-08-15: 3 articles2026-08-16: 12 articles2026-08-17: 9 articles2026-08-18: 3 articles2026-08-19: 18 articles2026-08-22: 12 articles2026-08-23: 6 articles2026-08-24: 24 articles2026-08-25: 24 articles2026-08-26: 28 articles2026-08-27: 32 articles2026-08-28: 4 articles2026-08-29: 4 articles2026-08-31: 14 articles2026-09-01: 6 articles2026-09-02: 15 articles2026-09-03: 12 articles2026-09-05: 15 articles08-0508-1108-1508-1908-2508-2909-0309-05

The 1 hatched days are gaps in the upstream news archive, not quiet days at Busting Brackets: the whole corpus dips on those dates. They are excluded from the median above.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=bustingbrackets.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Busting Brackets actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 307 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 20001: 00102: 40203: 40304: 00405: 30506: 00607: 00708: 00809: 00910: 01011: 331112: 231213: 361314: 401415: 241516: 491617: 231718: 221819: 211920: 72021: 132122: 32223: 023
Mon: 47MonTue: 39TueWed: 74WedThu: 59ThuFri: 22FriSat: 34SatSun: 32Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 12% of their articles.

SectionArticles
sport37

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish307100.0%

Latest articles

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

College basketball’s eligibility crisis is moving closer to the court
2026-09-05 21:11 UTC
NCAA eligibility lawsuits involving fifth seasons and former professional athletes could reshape college basketball rosters before the 2026-27 season.
College basketball’s latest injury wave makes roster depth the real preseason ranking
2026-09-03 18:12 UTC
Injuries to Brandon McCoy Jr., Ralph Scott, Christian Wiggins and Matt Hodge are reshaping college basketball rotations before preseason practice.
Iowa State’s Christian Wiggins injury removes a future answer before he gets started
2026-09-03 16:08 UTC
Iowa State freshman Christian Wiggins will miss the 2026-27 season with an injury, removing an important young piece from the Cyclones’ backcourt.
Villanova’s Matt Hodge timeline places early pressure on Kevin Willard’s frontcourt
2026-09-03 14:01 UTC
Villanova forward Matt Hodge could remain sidelined until December as Kevin Willard prepares a frontcourt led by Kwame Evans Jr. and Luigi Suigo.
Tennessee’s Ralph Scott injury creates an immediate frontcourt test for Rick Barnes
2026-09-03 11:58 UTC
Tennessee freshman Ralph Scott will miss six to eight months after knee surgery, creating a new frontcourt depth concern for Rick Barnes.
Michigan national champion is suing NCAA over $1,700 eligibility nightmare
2026-09-01 17:11 UTC
Michigan national champion Roddy Gayle Jr. is suing the NCAA for another season after earning just $1,700 in NBA Summer League.
Duke just made a historic change to Coach K Court that was once unthinkable
2026-09-01 16:03 UTC
Duke is placing an Edward Jones sponsorship logo on Coach K Court for the first time as part of a historic four-year agreement.
Kentucky’s dream addition just became Missouri’s potential Final Four game-changer
2026-09-01 14:57 UTC
Mark Mitchell will return to Missouri instead of attending Kentucky, potentially giving Dennis Gates a top-15 roster and a legitimate Final Four contender.
Why Sebastian Akins is Washington State’s most important team transfer for 2026-27
2026-08-31 19:51 UTC
There are many new faces at Washington State this season and the Cougars are hoping for big things from Sebastian Akins among others in the Pac-12.

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=bustingbrackets.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=bustingbrackets.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 Busting Brackets 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
12%
articles with sections
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 10074 min at the median, 29946 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Busting Brackets 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 307 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Busting Brackets publish per day?

9 on a median day, measured across 26 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.