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中天新聞網 API, RSS and sitemap

Every article 中天新聞網 publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 12,890 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

TaiwanChinese#536 by volume

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

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

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

politics 30%agrifood 20%crime 20%

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and 中天新聞網 headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=ctinews.com&size=5"
12,890
articles indexed
7,152
in the last 30 days
234
median per day
1
languages
0 min
median crawl lag
17.08 → 23.10
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 61 days. The busiest hour is 15:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-17: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-25: 2 articles2026-08-26: 188 articles2026-08-27: 246 articles2026-08-28: 239 articles2026-08-29: 243 articles2026-08-30: 92 articles2026-08-31: 55 articles2026-09-01: 61 articles2026-09-02: 71 articles2026-09-03: 233 articles2026-09-04: 272 articles2026-09-05: 231 articles2026-09-06: 265 articles2026-09-07: 215 articles2026-09-08: 249 articles2026-09-09: 251 articles2026-09-10: 258 articles2026-09-11: 202 articles2026-09-12: 204 articles2026-09-13: 204 articles2026-09-14: 245 articles2026-09-15: 246 articles2026-09-16: 247 articles2026-09-17: 263 articles2026-09-18: 225 articles2026-09-19: 238 articles2026-09-20: 280 articles2026-09-21: 212 articles2026-09-22: 277 articles2026-09-23: 275 articles2026-09-24: 254 articles2026-09-25: 207 articles2026-09-26: 218 articles2026-09-27: 259 articles2026-09-28: 189 articles2026-09-29: 195 articles2026-09-30: 249 articles2026-10-01: 232 articles2026-10-02: 206 articles2026-10-03: 232 articles2026-10-04: 255 articles2026-10-05: 223 articles2026-10-06: 215 articles2026-10-07: 247 articles2026-10-08: 241 articles2026-10-09: 210 articles2026-10-10: 234 articles2026-10-11: 261 articles2026-10-12: 224 articles2026-10-13: 208 articles2026-10-14: 266 articles2026-10-15: 260 articles2026-10-16: 241 articles2026-10-17: 253 articles2026-10-18: 254 articles2026-10-19: 68 articles2026-10-20: 212 articles2026-10-21: 232 articles2026-10-22: 254 articles2026-10-23: 1 articles09-0309-1309-2310-0310-1310-23

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

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

Publishing rhythm

When 中天新聞網 actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 12,890 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 750001: 830102: 1170203: 1060304: 840405: 1020506: 1210607: 5850708: 6580809: 6750910: 1,0281011: 9831112: 7571213: 7441314: 1,1771415: 1,3871516: 1,0551617: 8441718: 4731819: 4151920: 4292021: 4352122: 4632223: 9423
Mon: 1,432MonTue: 1,665TueWed: 2,026WedThu: 2,241ThuFri: 1,803FriSat: 1,853SatSun: 1,870Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 87% of their articles.

SectionArticles
agrifood11,170
crime11,170
politics11,170

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
zhChinese12,890100.0%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent 中天新聞網 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=ctinews.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=ctinews.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 中天新聞網 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
87%
articles with sections
—
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 0 min at the median, 969 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 中天新聞網 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 12,890 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does 中天新聞網 publish per day?

234 on a median day, measured across 61 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.