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Donegal Live API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Donegal Live publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 2,204 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

IrelandEnglish#3,153 by volume

Four ways to pull donegallive.ie

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

JSON Search this publisher

Every article we hold from donegallive.ie, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

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

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

sport 79%

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Donegal Live headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.donegallive.ie&size=5"
2,204
articles indexed
1,059
in the last 30 days
36
median per day
1
languages
12 min
median crawl lag
25.08 → 22.10
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 59 days. The busiest hour is 09:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-25: 28 articles2026-08-26: 34 articles2026-08-27: 33 articles2026-08-28: 33 articles2026-08-29: 45 articles2026-08-30: 49 articles2026-08-31: 29 articles2026-09-01: 50 articles2026-09-02: 41 articles2026-09-03: 38 articles2026-09-04: 31 articles2026-09-05: 47 articles2026-09-06: 55 articles2026-09-07: 47 articles2026-09-08: 42 articles2026-09-09: 35 articles2026-09-10: 38 articles2026-09-11: 43 articles2026-09-12: 50 articles2026-09-13: 37 articles2026-09-14: 44 articles2026-09-15: 48 articles2026-09-16: 53 articles2026-09-17: 35 articles2026-09-18: 36 articles2026-09-19: 33 articles2026-09-20: 55 articles2026-09-21: 36 articles2026-09-22: 29 articles2026-09-23: 33 articles2026-09-24: 34 articles2026-09-25: 31 articles2026-09-26: 36 articles2026-09-27: 32 articles2026-09-28: 34 articles2026-09-29: 41 articles2026-09-30: 37 articles2026-10-01: 29 articles2026-10-02: 31 articles2026-10-03: 39 articles2026-10-04: 37 articles2026-10-05: 36 articles2026-10-06: 52 articles2026-10-07: 28 articles2026-10-08: 31 articles2026-10-09: 32 articles2026-10-10: 33 articles2026-10-11: 29 articles2026-10-12: 40 articles2026-10-13: 50 articles2026-10-14: 39 articles2026-10-15: 34 articles2026-10-16: 23 articles2026-10-17: 30 articles2026-10-18: 41 articles2026-10-19: 25 articles2026-10-20: 39 articles2026-10-21: 33 articles2026-10-22: 21 articles08-2509-0309-1209-2109-3010-0910-1810-22
bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=www.donegallive.ie&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Donegal Live actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 2,204 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 00001: 20102: 10203: 00304: 10405: 60506: 610607: 1120708: 1500809: 1930910: 1701011: 1531112: 1331213: 1441314: 1601415: 1801516: 1691617: 1411718: 1341819: 1251920: 992021: 322122: 32223: 3523
Mon: 291MonTue: 379TueWed: 333WedThu: 293ThuFri: 260FriSat: 313SatSun: 335Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 43% of their articles.

SectionArticles
sport950

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish2,204100.0%

Latest articles

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

It Occurs to Me: Commemorating Patrick MacGill
2026-10-22 19:00 UTC
Patrick MacGill’s first novel, Children of the Dead End, sold ten thousand copies in a fortnight, in the same year that James Joyce’s Dubliners sold 499 copies, 120 of th
In pictures: Happy smiles at Onóir's Ballyshannon concert
2026-10-22 18:32 UTC
Onóir is an Irish folk group formed in Donegal
A fairytale adventure awaits as Crana College brings Shrek to life
2026-10-22 18:00 UTC
Millennium Forum set to host Crana College's latest production
Retirement dinner for Scoil Mhuire teacher Theresa McElhinney
2026-10-22 17:00 UTC
Moville woman retires after 33 years teaching in the Buncrana secondary school
Man asks for alleged Ballyshannon assault charge to be struck out
2026-10-22 16:44 UTC
Judge Éiteáin Cunningham denied striking out alleged charges at Ballyshannon District Court
Wild Ireland ‘achieved the impossible’ through five-year rescue
2026-10-22 15:57 UTC
Despite difficulties encountered, the rescue was successful and the bears travelled from Dagestan to Donegal
Hearing date set for man accused of Bundoran gaming laptop theft
2026-10-22 15:36 UTC
Judge sets hearing date for January 2027 for alleged offence committed at Bundoran’s Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea
Judge fines Bundoran resident €250 for motoring offence
2026-10-22 15:08 UTC
Judge Éiteáin Cunningham convicted the defendant after Gardaí stopped car in Ballyshannon
Plans submitted to replace 'outdated' Donegal hostel with 14 houses
2026-10-22 13:39 UTC
Donegal County Council receives planning application concerning Doonan Lodge in Donegal Town
McKenna outlines task ahead as Roarty jets off to Collingwood
2026-10-22 12:00 UTC
Conor McKenna has outlined just what challenges Finnbarr Roarty faces as he looks to transition to full-time professional football in the AFL.
Sadness as Buncrana missing person appeal stood down after body found
2026-10-22 11:27 UTC
An Garda Síochána issued an update, thanking the public and the media who assisted with the search
Here's the Donegal Democrat Team of the Senior Championship 2026
2026-10-22 11:20 UTC
St Eunan’s and Naomh Conaill dominate the team of the championship
Planning sought for 98-unit Donegal Town housing development
2026-10-22 11:16 UTC
Donegal County Council receives proposal for proposed Donegal Town development off Old Laghey Road
Emergency works see Lough Salt Road closed
2026-10-22 10:45 UTC
Diversions will be in place to facilitate emergency repairs around Goldrum
Weather warnings for Donegal lifted
2026-10-22 09:40 UTC
Both warnings were put in place for Donegal ahead of Storm Austen
Donegal band Delta Minor make a major impression with debut single
2026-10-22 08:00 UTC
Rising Buncrana four-piece bring their own original sound to the fore with ‘Simmer’ release

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.donegallive.ie&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.donegallive.ie&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 Donegal Live 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
43%
articles with sections
—
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 12 min at the median, 1457 minutes at the 90th percentile.

Similar publishers

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FAQ

Does Donegal Live 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 2,204 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Donegal Live publish per day?

36 on a median day, measured across 59 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.