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中日新聞 API, RSS and sitemap

Every article 中日新聞 publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 1,328 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

JapanJapanese#2,482 by volume

Four ways to pull chunichi.co.jp

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

JSON Search this publisher

Every article we hold from chunichi.co.jp, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

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

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

economy 33%environment 33%sport 33%

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and 中日新聞 headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.chunichi.co.jp&size=5"
1,328
articles indexed
1,328
in the last 30 days
134
median per day
1
languages
0 min
median crawl lag
26.08 → 07.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 10 days. The busiest hour is 18:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-26: 153 articles2026-08-27: 134 articles2026-08-28: 218 articles2026-08-29: 127 articles2026-08-30: 24 articles2026-09-03: 174 articles2026-09-04: 184 articles2026-09-05: 120 articles2026-09-06: 72 articles2026-09-07: 122 articles08-2608-2708-2808-2908-3009-0309-0409-0509-0609-07
bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=www.chunichi.co.jp&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When 中日新聞 actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 1,328 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 260001: 60102: 50203: 40304: 10405: 760506: 670607: 600708: 400809: 620910: 631011: 351112: 671213: 411314: 471415: 741516: 901617: 951718: 1231819: 1021920: 492021: 992122: 522223: 4423
Mon: 122MonTue: 0TueWed: 153WedThu: 308ThuFri: 402FriSat: 247SatSun: 96Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 100% of their articles.

SectionArticles
economy1,328
environment1,328
sport1,328

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
jaJapanese1,328100.0%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent 中日新聞 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=www.chunichi.co.jp&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.chunichi.co.jp&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 中日新聞 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
100%
articles with sections
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 0 min at the median, 1134 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 中日新聞 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 1,328 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does 中日新聞 publish per day?

134 on a median day, measured across 10 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.