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The Santa Barbara Independent API, RSS and sitemap

Every article The Santa Barbara Independent publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 1,809 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United StatesEnglish#3,693 by volume

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

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

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

entertainment 24%

Call the API

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

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.independent.com&size=5"
1,809
articles indexed
664
in the last 30 days
19
median per day
1
languages
27 min
median crawl lag
24.07 → 22.10
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 90 days. The busiest hour is 19:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-07-24: 14 articles2026-07-25: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-07-26: 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: 23 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: 30 articles2026-08-26: 16 articles2026-08-27: 16 articles2026-08-28: 32 articles2026-08-29: 21 articles2026-08-30: 1 articles2026-08-31: 23 articles2026-09-01: 11 articles2026-09-02: 16 articles2026-09-03: 27 articles2026-09-04: 53 articles2026-09-05: 14 articles2026-09-07: 6 articles2026-09-08: 14 articles2026-09-09: 22 articles2026-09-10: 10 articles2026-09-11: 48 articles2026-09-12: 20 articles2026-09-13: 4 articles2026-09-14: 15 articles2026-09-15: 22 articles2026-09-16: 23 articles2026-09-17: 33 articles2026-09-18: 41 articles2026-09-19: 10 articles2026-09-20: 6 articles2026-09-21: 21 articles2026-09-22: 22 articles2026-09-23: 18 articles2026-09-24: 19 articles2026-09-25: 31 articles2026-09-26: 10 articles2026-09-27: 11 articles2026-09-28: 17 articles2026-09-29: 14 articles2026-09-30: 27 articles2026-10-01: 19 articles2026-10-02: 75 articles2026-10-03: 12 articles2026-10-04: 7 articles2026-10-05: 18 articles2026-10-06: 30 articles2026-10-07: 26 articles2026-10-08: 14 articles2026-10-09: 48 articles2026-10-10: 6 articles2026-10-11: 19 articles2026-10-12: 17 articles2026-10-13: 15 articles2026-10-14: 17 articles2026-10-15: 22 articles2026-10-16: 18 articles2026-10-17: 52 articles2026-10-18: 6 articles2026-10-19: 29 articles2026-10-20: 17 articles2026-10-21: 23 articles2026-10-22: 27 articles07-2409-0809-2310-0810-22

The 30 hatched days are gaps in the upstream news archive, not quiet days at The Santa Barbara Independent: the whole corpus dips on those dates. They are excluded from the median above.

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

Publishing rhythm

When The Santa Barbara Independent actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 1,809 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 710001: 380102: 90203: 780304: 450405: 240506: 240607: 190708: 320809: 00910: 01011: 01112: 61213: 121314: 91415: 211516: 1411617: 1981718: 1551819: 2311920: 1612021: 1482122: 2032223: 18423
Mon: 266MonTue: 257TueWed: 293WedThu: 312ThuFri: 444FriSat: 168SatSun: 69Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 54% of their articles.

SectionArticles
Announcement251
entertainment248
News59
Letters50
Indy Parenting48
Music48
Community46
Public Safety41
Arts & Entertainment33
Anuncios32
Essential32
Courts & Crime31
Sports25
Voices24

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish1,809100.0%

Latest articles

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

Storm Brings Lightning, over Three Inches of Rain to Parts of Santa Barbara County
2026-10-22 23:24 UTC
County sees flood warnings, car crashes, a shipwreck, and downed powerlines during weekday downpour. The post Storm Brings Lightning, over Three Inches of Rain to Parts o
Shameful Actions
2026-10-22 23:11 UTC · entertainment
Why Leadership Matters for Our City’s Future
2026-10-22 22:53 UTC · entertainment
In Santa Barbara County, Every Vote Deserves Care
2026-10-22 22:33 UTC
Our elections are strongest when participation is broad, information is trustworthy, and neighbors treat one another with respect. The post In Santa Barbara County, Every
Poetry Connection | Connecting with Fellow Poets Laureate at Hollister Ranch
2026-10-22 20:59 UTC
Beautiful scenery meets beautiful words at a special gathering. The post Poetry Connection | Connecting with Fellow Poets Laureate at Hollister Ranch appeared first on Th
Celebrate Eat Happy with a Cookbook Celebration
2026-10-22 20:57 UTC
An evening of mixology, food, and community from the Santa Barbara Culinary Experience and the Women Winemakers & Culinarians Foundation. The post Celebrate Eat Happy wit
Book Review | ‘On Un/Certainty: The Uses of Doubt in Dangerous Times’ by Natasha Lennard
2026-10-22 20:53 UTC
What does uncertainty mean for our ability to act? New book explores this topic through a philosophical lens. The post Book Review | ‘On Un/Certainty: The Uses of Doubt i
A Cozy Santa Barbara Evening with Ingrid Michaelson, Allie Moss and Hannah Winkler
2026-10-22 20:48 UTC
MOPOP's exterior The post A Cozy Santa Barbara Evening with Ingrid Michaelson, Allie Moss and Hannah Winkler appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent .
Santa Barbara Unified Test Scores Improve, but Achievement Gap Remains
2026-10-22 19:25 UTC
California School Dashboard shows English and math proficiency up districtwide, while some schools see declines amid students’ struggles to meet grade-level expectations.
20 Years on the Podium, on the Symphonic Case
2026-10-22 17:29 UTC
Santa Barbara Symphony, opening its season this weekend at the Granada Theatre, hosted a tribute to maestro Nir Kabaretti, embarking on his 20th year at the helm. The pos
Ex-Prodigy Delivering on Continued Promise
2026-10-22 17:29 UTC
Classical piano phenom Lang Lang returns to town, having tamed some of his showman instincts. The post Ex-Prodigy Delivering on Continued Promise appeared first on The Sa
Santa Barbara Bar Food at Its Best
2026-10-22 17:26 UTC
Friendly neighborhood bar lassos up killer cuisine and cocktails at the Rodeo Room. The post Santa Barbara Bar Food at Its Best appeared first on The Santa Barbara Indepe
9-1-1 Service Outage for T-Mobile and AT&T Customers in Santa Barbara
2026-10-22 16:09 UTC
Call 805-882-8900 or text 9-1-1 for emergency service. The post 9-1-1 Service Outage for T-Mobile and AT&T Customers in Santa Barbara appeared first on The Santa Barbara
Q&A: Photographer Holly Lepere
2026-10-22 08:15 UTC · entertainment
Best of Santa Barbara® 2026
2026-10-22 03:00 UTC · entertainment
2026 Best of Santa Barbara® Housing
2026-10-22 03:00 UTC · entertainment
2026 Best of Santa Barbara® Sporting Life
2026-10-22 03:00 UTC
2026 Best of Santa Barbara® Sporting Life By Tiana Molony | October 22, 2026Photos by Ingrid Bostrom | Illustrations by The post 2026 Best of Santa Barbara® Sporting Life

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.independent.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=www.independent.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 The Santa Barbara Independent marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

41%
dates from JSON-LD
40%
articles with a byline
54%
articles with sections
211 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 27 min at the median, 369 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does The Santa Barbara Independent 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 1,809 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does The Santa Barbara Independent publish per day?

19 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.