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The Standard API, RSS and sitemap

Every article The Standard publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 33,561 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

KenyaEnglish#151 by volume

Four ways to pull co.ke

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

JSON Search this publisher

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

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

Call the API

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

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.tuko.co.ke&size=5"

This page covers 15 hosts of co.ke as one publisher: www.tuko.co.ke, www.standardmedia.co.ke, uzalendonews.co.ke, radiogeneration.co.ke, www.kbc.co.ke, www.jiupdate.co.ke, www.pulsesports.co.ke, www.pulse.co.ke, www.kdrtv.co.ke, nairobileo.co.ke, www.techarena.co.ke, thevoicedaily.co.ke and 3 more. The API accepts them comma-separated in host.

33,561
articles indexed
15,741
in the last 30 days
412
median per day
1
languages
128 min
median crawl lag
24.07 → 23.10
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 90 days. The busiest hour is 00:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-07-26: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-07-27: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-07-28: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-07-29: 315 articles2026-07-30: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-07-31: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-01: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-02: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-03: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-04: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-05: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-06: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-07: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-08: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-09: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-10: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-11: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-12: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-13: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-14: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-15: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-16: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-17: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-18: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-19: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-20: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-21: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-22: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-23: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-24: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-25: 334 articles2026-08-26: 377 articles2026-08-27: 514 articles2026-08-28: 391 articles2026-08-29: 306 articles2026-08-30: 222 articles2026-08-31: 320 articles2026-09-01: 374 articles2026-09-02: 427 articles2026-09-03: 465 articles2026-09-04: 410 articles2026-09-05: 277 articles2026-09-06: 264 articles2026-09-07: 346 articles2026-09-08: 429 articles2026-09-09: 410 articles2026-09-10: 393 articles2026-09-11: 412 articles2026-09-12: 392 articles2026-09-13: 266 articles2026-09-14: 329 articles2026-09-15: 465 articles2026-09-16: 495 articles2026-09-17: 425 articles2026-09-18: 398 articles2026-09-19: 359 articles2026-09-20: 285 articles2026-09-21: 481 articles2026-09-22: 664 articles2026-09-23: 606 articles2026-09-24: 710 articles2026-09-25: 616 articles2026-09-26: 428 articles2026-09-27: 282 articles2026-09-28: 583 articles2026-09-29: 664 articles2026-09-30: 680 articles2026-10-01: 697 articles2026-10-02: 422 articles2026-10-03: 265 articles2026-10-04: 388 articles2026-10-05: 490 articles2026-10-06: 613 articles2026-10-07: 636 articles2026-10-08: 564 articles2026-10-09: 457 articles2026-10-10: 375 articles2026-10-11: 301 articles2026-10-12: 483 articles2026-10-13: 712 articles2026-10-14: 635 articles2026-10-15: 636 articles2026-10-16: 468 articles2026-10-17: 374 articles2026-10-18: 287 articles2026-10-19: 363 articles2026-10-20: 442 articles2026-10-21: 481 articles2026-10-22: 411 articles2026-10-23: 8 articles08-2509-0909-2410-0910-23

The 29 hatched days are gaps in the upstream news archive, not quiet days at The Standard: the whole corpus dips on those dates. They are excluded from the median above.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=www.tuko.co.ke&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When The Standard actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 33,561 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 10,2250001: 740102: 1450203: 4370304: 8870405: 1,0920506: 1,5550607: 1,4970708: 1,7470809: 1,6410910: 1,7801011: 1,6851112: 1,8341213: 1,8711314: 1,5581415: 1,4231516: 1,2561617: 9551718: 6051819: 4701920: 3342021: 2872122: 1192223: 8423
Mon: 4,539MonTue: 5,936TueWed: 5,962WedThu: 5,907ThuFri: 4,669FriSat: 3,505SatSun: 3,043Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 63% of their articles.

SectionArticles
politics6,283
crime3,149
News1,291
Politics1,212
Entertainment1,050
People1,005
Celebrities918
Kenya777
National775
World742
Business693
Sports687
NEWS645
Football593

Languages

The site identifies itself under The Standard, Uzalendo News, Tuko.co.ke - Kenya news., Tuko.co.ke, Radio Generation Kenya — separate editions publishing under one domain.

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish33,53799.9%

Latest articles

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

Child neglect cases expose protection gaps
2026-10-23 00:00 UTC · politics
Varsities' mess: Broken promises, students in limbo as strike drags on
2026-10-23 00:00 UTC · Education · Lewis Nyaundi; Gentrix Osano
University lecturers’ strike enters Day 22 as stalled pay negotiations disrupt learning, delay graduations and leave thousands of students in limbo.
Moyale Border Clashes: Why Hundreds Fled Ethiopia and How Kenya Handles Asylum
2026-10-22 20:16 UTC · News · Kibaki Muthamia
Hundreds of Ethiopians, mostly women, children and young people, have crossed into Kenya following gunfire and clashes in the border town of Moyale. Read more.
MTRH quarantines one person after contact with suspected Ebola case
2026-10-22 19:53 UTC · Health & Science · Fred Kagonye
Suspected Ebola patient at MTRH in Eldoret is asymptomatic but under close monitoring after contact with a suspected case 20 days ago, CEO Dr Kirwa says, following public

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.tuko.co.ke&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.tuko.co.ke&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 The Standard marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

31%
dates from JSON-LD
52%
articles with a byline
63%
articles with sections
169 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 128 min at the median, 11225 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does The Standard 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 33,561 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does The Standard publish per day?

412 on a median day, measured across 90 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.