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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. 1,229 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United StatesEnglish#5,046 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"
1,229
articles indexed
387
in the last 30 days
12
median per day
1
languages
13998 min
median crawl lag
05.08 → 22.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 34 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: 15 articles2026-08-23: 8 articles2026-08-24: 37 articles2026-08-25: 36 articles2026-08-26: 42 articles2026-08-27: 48 articles2026-08-28: 6 articles2026-08-29: 6 articles2026-08-31: 28 articles2026-09-01: 12 articles2026-09-02: 25 articles2026-09-03: 20 articles2026-09-05: 25 articles2026-09-09: 18 articles2026-09-10: 15 articles2026-09-11: 15 articles2026-09-15: 15 articles2026-09-16: 3 articles2026-09-18: 18 articles2026-09-21: 10 articles2026-09-22: 8 articles08-0508-1208-1708-2408-2909-0509-1609-22

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.

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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 1,229 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 20001: 00102: 60203: 60304: 00405: 40506: 00607: 00708: 00809: 00910: 31011: 551112: 391213: 481314: 681415: 381516: 821617: 401718: 431819: 381920: 222021: 242122: 32223: 023
Mon: 84MonTue: 80TueWed: 119WedThu: 98ThuFri: 57FriSat: 49SatSun: 34Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 14% of their articles.

SectionArticles
sport74

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish52142.4%

Latest articles

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

UConn freshman delivers eye-opening first look as injuries cloud preseason
2026-09-22 19:14 UTC
UConn freshman Olivia Vukosa grabbed 10 rebounds during an open-practice scrimmage as four Huskies sat out with injuries.
Florida State’s most important player may be trapped in NCAA eligibility limbo
2026-09-22 17:06 UTC
Florida State basketball opened preseason practice while awaiting a final eligibility decision involving forward Alex Steen.
Michael Malone faces immediate pressure as North Carolina opens practice
2026-09-22 15:01 UTC
North Carolina basketball opened practice under Michael Malone with a transfer-heavy roster and a No. 25 preseason ranking.
Florida basketball awaits massive Denzel Aberdeen eligibility decision
2026-09-22 12:57 UTC
Florida basketball guard Denzel Aberdeen is awaiting a Sept. 29 hearing that could determine his eligibility for the 2026-27 season.
Rutgers lands four-star guard Korey Francis after championship season
2026-09-21 20:46 UTC
Four-star guard Korey Francis committed to Rutgers after averaging 21.6 points and leading his team to a Pennsylvania state championship.
UConn lands five-star NoVorro Bowman Jr. as Big East road takes shape
2026-09-21 16:35 UTC
Five-star NoVorro Bowman Jr. committed to UConn as the Huskies received their complete 2026-27 Big East schedule.
Rick Pitino is reuniting with the point guard who helped deliver his last national title
2026-09-18 20:42 UTC
Rick Pitino officially added former Louisville national champion Peyton Siva to his St. John's basketball coaching staff.
Kansas' full schedule is finally here and Bill Self has almost nowhere to hide
2026-09-18 18:34 UTC
Kansas basketball's complete 2026-27 schedule includes Duke, Kentucky, UConn, Houston, Arizona and several other marquee opponents.
Florida's latest No. 1 ranking comes with a warning for the rest of College Basketball
2026-09-18 16:29 UTC
Florida basketball was ranked No. 1 in Blue Ribbon's preseason Top 25 ahead of Duke and Illinois entering the 2026-27 season.
Houston's No. 1 recruiting class just added the most Kelvin Sampson player possible
2026-09-18 15:22 UTC
Houston basketball added four-star forward Triston Hawthorne, giving Kelvin Sampson four commitments in the nation's No. 1 2027 class.
Final Four bound? Breaking down the 2026-2027 depth chart for the Nebraska Cornhuskers
2026-09-18 13:16 UTC
It is time again to start breaking down team rosters. Nebraska is trending up and are on a path to have a better season in 2026-2027. Nebraska has two starters that could
Ohio State just beat Duke and Florida for a recruit who wasn't supposed to commit yet
2026-09-18 11:14 UTC
Ohio State basketball landed four-star 2027 forward Deng Ngor before he could visit Duke, Florida and Washington.

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:

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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
14%
articles with sections
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average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 13998 min at the median, 31315 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 1,229 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Busting Brackets publish per day?

12 on a median day, measured across 34 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.