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Esa API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Esa publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 113 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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Four ways to pull esa.int

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

JSON Search this publisher

Every article we hold from esa.int, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

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

Call the API

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

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.esa.int&size=5"
113
articles indexed
48
in the last 30 days
2
median per day
1
languages
1410 min
median crawl lag
19.06 → 17.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 54 days. The busiest hour is 00:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-06-19: 4 articles2026-06-22: 1 articles2026-06-24: 2 articles2026-06-25: 2 articles2026-06-26: 3 articles2026-06-29: 2 articles2026-06-30: 1 articles2026-07-01: 4 articles2026-07-02: 2 articles2026-07-03: 3 articles2026-07-06: 1 articles2026-07-08: 2 articles2026-07-10: 2 articles2026-07-13: 1 articles2026-07-14: 1 articles2026-07-15: 2 articles2026-07-16: 1 articles2026-07-17: 4 articles2026-07-20: 2 articles2026-07-24: 2 articles2026-07-28: 1 articles2026-07-31: 2 articles2026-08-03: 1 articles2026-08-04: 1 articles2026-08-05: 2 articles2026-08-06: 1 articles2026-08-10: 1 articles2026-08-11: 3 articles2026-08-12: 2 articles2026-08-14: 1 articles2026-08-17: 1 articles2026-08-18: 1 articles2026-08-19: 3 articles2026-08-21: 2 articles2026-08-24: 1 articles2026-08-25: 2 articles2026-08-26: 1 articles2026-08-27: 4 articles2026-08-28: 5 articles2026-08-31: 4 articles2026-09-01: 1 articles2026-09-02: 4 articles2026-09-03: 2 articles2026-09-04: 1 articles2026-09-05: 1 articles2026-09-07: 1 articles2026-09-08: 1 articles2026-09-09: 1 articles2026-09-10: 1 articles2026-09-11: 2 articles2026-09-14: 3 articles2026-09-15: 3 articles2026-09-16: 2 articles2026-09-17: 2 articles06-1907-0307-2008-1108-2609-0709-17
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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=www.esa.int&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Esa actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 113 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 1060001: 00102: 00203: 00304: 00405: 00506: 00607: 00708: 00809: 00910: 01011: 01112: 01213: 01314: 01415: 01516: 01617: 01718: 01819: 01920: 02021: 02122: 02223: 023
Mon: 19MonTue: 15TueWed: 25WedThu: 15ThuFri: 31FriSat: 1SatSun: 0Sun

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish10693.8%

Latest articles

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

Three space companies win ESA awards for excellence and innovation
2026-09-17 00:00 UTC
On 16 September at its Industry Space Days 2026 event at ESA–ESTEC in the Netherlands, the European Space Agency (ESA) honoured three space companies with this year’s pre
Galileo's first civil authenticated position fix under spoofing conditions
2026-09-17 00:00 UTC
For two hours on the afternoon of Wednesday 16 September, five operational Galileo satellites broadcasting over Europe transmitted a new encrypted signal for testing. On
Purple swirls on the Red Planet
2026-09-16 00:00 UTC
This image shows a prominent ice cliff near Mars’s south pole. With striking swirls of purple, pink and red, it’s a far cry from the colour palette we usually associate w
Faster-flowing glaciers fuel decades of polar ice loss
2026-09-16 00:00 UTC
The longest satellite data record of ice-sheet change ever assembled has revealed that Greenland and Antarctica have lost a staggering 11 trillion tonnes of ice since the
FLEX and Sentinel-3C launched
2026-09-15 00:00 UTC
The European Space Agency’s FLEX Earth Explorer satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite have been launched together aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spacep
FLEX and Sentinel-3C launch highlights
2026-09-15 00:00 UTC
Applications FLEX and Sentinel-3C launch highlights ESA’s state-of-the-art FLEX Earth Explorer satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite have been launched toget
Webb reveals stunning panorama of star formation
2026-09-15 00:00 UTC
This starry view of the nearby star-forming region IC 348 is one of the largest images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope released to the public so far. Usi
ESA’s FLEX mission reveals the secret glow of plants
2026-09-14 00:00 UTC
Applications ESA’s FLEX mission reveals the secret glow of plants Plants may look still and silent, but every leaf is constantly responding to its environment. As plants
ESA Space Environment Report 2026
2026-09-14 00:00 UTC
In brief Earth’s orbital environment is a finite resource. Some of its orbits are getting crowded and increasingly churning with deadly, fast-moving pieces of defunct sat
FLEX and Sentinel-3C ready for liftoff on Vega-C
2026-09-14 00:00 UTC
Two Earth observation satellites – ESA’s Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) satellite, and the third satellite for the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission – are encapsulated inside t
Week in images: 07-11 Sep 2026
2026-09-11 00:00 UTC
Agency Week in images: 07-11 Sep 2026 11/09/2026 282 views 14 likes ESA / About Us / Week in images Copernicus Sentinel-3 captured a plume from the eruption of Anak Kraka
A team of teams like never before: rehearsing a unique launch at ESA mission control
2026-09-11 00:00 UTC
On 15 September, two spacecraft will leave Earth together aboard the same launcher from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou: FLEX, ESA’s photosynthesis mission, and Sentinel-3C,
Name our dino – ESA’s Hera asteroid mission mascot!
2026-09-10 00:00 UTC
The European Space Agency’s Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence has a cartoon dinosaur for its mascot – because dinos were made extinct after an asteroid impact,
MTM's selfie footage of BepiColombo's eight-year journey
2026-09-09 00:00 UTC
Science & Exploration MTM's selfie footage of BepiColombo's eight-year journey Witness how over the last eight years, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has been travelling
Anak Krakatau eruption by Sentinel-3
2026-09-08 00:00 UTC
Copernicus Sentinel-3 captured a plume from the eruption of Anak Krakatau on Saturday, 5 September.
Europe's space future in focus at the International Space Summit
2026-09-07 00:00 UTC
The International Space Summit, taking place in Paris, France, on 9 and 10 September, will bring together world leaders, ministers, industry representatives and astronaut
Isar Aerospace achieves first launch to orbit from continental Europe
2026-09-05 00:00 UTC
In brief Today German company Isar Aerospace successfully reached orbit with their Spectrum launcher, lifting off from Andøya Spaceport in Norway. In-depth At 21:12 BST/2
Week in images: 31 Aug - 04 Sep 2026
2026-09-04 00:00 UTC
Agency Week in images: 31 Aug - 04 Sep 2026 04/09/2026 284 views 8 likes ESA / About Us / Week in images FLEX and Sentinel-3C being sealed from view Samba's reentry recor

Harvest it all

Page through the archive by date. from and to accept YYYY-MM-DD or relative values such as now-7d.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.esa.int&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=www.esa.int&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 Esa 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
0%
articles with sections
18 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 1410 min at the median, 5084 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Esa 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 113 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Esa publish per day?

2 on a median day, measured across 54 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.