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Letters from an American API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Letters from an American publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 166 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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

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RSS Subscribe in any reader

The same articles as an RSS 2.0 feed. Works in Feedly, Inoreader, Thunderbird — anywhere.

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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=heathercoxrichardson.substack.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=heathercoxrichardson.substack.com&size=20&fields=title,url,published_at,lang"open it →

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Letters from an American headlines come back as JSON.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=heathercoxrichardson.substack.com&size=5"
166
articles indexed
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in the last 30 days
3
median per day
1
languages
164 min
median crawl lag
08.06 → 06.08
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 60 days. The busiest hour is 05:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-06-08: 1 articles2026-06-09: 3 articles2026-06-10: 5 articles2026-06-11: 2 articles2026-06-12: 3 articles2026-06-13: 3 articles2026-06-14: 3 articles2026-06-15: 2 articles2026-06-16: 2 articles2026-06-17: 5 articles2026-06-18: 2 articles2026-06-19: 5 articles2026-06-20: 2 articles2026-06-21: 1 articles2026-06-22: 4 articles2026-06-23: 2 articles2026-06-24: 4 articles2026-06-25: 3 articles2026-06-26: 3 articles2026-06-27: 3 articles2026-06-28: 2 articles2026-06-29: 3 articles2026-06-30: 2 articles2026-07-01: 3 articles2026-07-02: 2 articles2026-07-03: 4 articles2026-07-04: 2 articles2026-07-05: 1 articles2026-07-06: 2 articles2026-07-07: 2 articles2026-07-08: 4 articles2026-07-09: 4 articles2026-07-10: 4 articles2026-07-11: 2 articles2026-07-12: 2 articles2026-07-13: 3 articles2026-07-14: 2 articles2026-07-15: 4 articles2026-07-16: 2 articles2026-07-17: 4 articles2026-07-18: 1 articles2026-07-19: 4 articles2026-07-20: 1 articles2026-07-21: 4 articles2026-07-22: 4 articles2026-07-23: 2 articles2026-07-24: 3 articles2026-07-25: 2 articles2026-07-26: 2 articles2026-07-27: 4 articles2026-07-28: 2 articles2026-07-29: 2 articles2026-07-30: 2 articles2026-07-31: 5 articles2026-08-01: 2 articles2026-08-02: 3 articles2026-08-03: 3 articles2026-08-04: 3 articles2026-08-05: 3 articles2026-08-06: 3 articles06-0806-1806-2807-0807-1807-2808-06
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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=heathercoxrichardson.substack.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Letters from an American actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 166 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

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Mon: 23MonTue: 22TueWed: 34WedThu: 22ThuFri: 31FriSat: 17SatSun: 18Sun

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish167100.6%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent Letters from an American articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

August 5, 2026
2026-08-06 05:44 UTC · Heather Cox Richardson
On August 5, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law a new tax to help fund the United States government during the Civil War.
Representative Jim McGovern | American Conversations
2026-08-06 04:43 UTC · Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American Subscribe Sign in Representative Jim McGovern | American Conversations Heather Cox Richardson Aug 06, 2026 25 3 Share Discussion about this post
Scott MacFarlane | American Conversations
2026-08-06 04:34 UTC · Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American Subscribe Sign in Scott MacFarlane | American Conversations Heather Cox Richardson Aug 06, 2026 27 4 Share Discussion about this post Comments Re
Skewing the System
2026-08-05 20:37 UTC · Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American Skewing the System1×0:00Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -12:47-12:47Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.Skewing the
August 4, 2026
2026-08-05 05:28 UTC · Heather Cox Richardson
On Friday night, a court filing from Capital One denied there was any political motivation behind the closure of more than 380 bank accounts in the names of Donald Trump
Politics Chat, August 4, 2026
2026-08-05 02:00 UTC · Heather Cox Richardson
Politics ChatPolitics Chat, August 4, 20262831×0:00Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -53:10-53:10Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.Politics C
An Unconscionable Deal
2026-08-04 23:54 UTC · Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American An Unconscionable Deal83124981×0:00Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -14:16-14:16Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.A
Representative Chellie Pingree | American Conversations
2026-08-04 23:09 UTC · Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American Subscribe Sign in Representative Chellie Pingree | American Conversations Heather Cox Richardson Aug 04, 2026 45 2 12 Share Discussion about this
August 3, 2026
2026-08-04 04:16 UTC · Heather Cox Richardson
Just before midnight last night, news broke that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche had rescinded the order of May 18, 2026, establishing a $1.776 billion slush fund fo
Manipulating the Judicial Process
2026-08-03 23:46 UTC · Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American Manipulating the Judicial Process911251201×0:00Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -9:38-9:38Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please
August 2, 2026
2026-08-03 03:38 UTC · Heather Cox Richardson
Friday’s dismissal of the Department of Justice case against David Hearn for vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool came days after Hearn’s lawyers asked for t
Week Ten in 250 to 250
2026-08-03 01:45 UTC · Heather Cox Richardson
This was the tenth week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Always a Lie
2026-08-02 20:07 UTC · Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American Always a Lie1,510951831×0:00Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -9:53-9:53Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.Always a L
August 1, 2026
2026-08-02 05:11 UTC · Heather Cox Richardson
In a classic Friday night news dump, the Department of Justice last night moved to dismiss the criminal charges against David Hearn, the U.S.
Trading Strategy for Ideology
2026-08-02 00:48 UTC · Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American Trading Strategy for Ideology891401151×0:00Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -14:07-14:07Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please u
July 31, 2026
2026-08-01 04:59 UTC · Heather Cox Richardson
Courtney Kube, Monica Alba, Peter Nicholas, Gordon Lubold, Katherine Doyle, and Andrea Mitchell of NBC News reported Wednesday that President Donald J.
Maya Wiley | American Conversations
2026-08-01 00:17 UTC · Heather Cox Richardson
Speaking ofcCivil Rights & Reality, per CNN, The Justice Dept. (DOJ) admits the Reflecting Pool renovation was "hasty and botched" THEN dropped case against the former fa
60 Years of Medicare and Medicaid
2026-07-31 20:06 UTC · Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American 60 Years of Medicare and Medicaid64014991×0:00Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -10:01-10:01Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Pleas

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=heathercoxrichardson.substack.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:

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=heathercoxrichardson.substack.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 Letters from an American marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

100%
dates from JSON-LD
100%
articles with a byline
0%
articles with sections
209 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 164 min at the median, 408 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Letters from an American 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 166 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Letters from an American publish per day?

3 on a median day, measured across 60 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.