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Iowa Public Radio API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Iowa Public Radio publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 2,725 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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Four ways to pull iowapublicradio.org

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

JSON Search this publisher

Every article we hold from iowapublicradio.org, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

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

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

entertainment 29%

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Iowa Public Radio headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.iowapublicradio.org&size=5"
2,725
articles indexed
1,366
in the last 30 days
46
median per day
2
languages
303 min
median crawl lag
24.07 → 22.10
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 90 days. The busiest hour is 04:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-07-24: 6 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: 6 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 dips2026-08-03: 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: 32 articles2026-08-26: 46 articles2026-08-27: 52 articles2026-08-28: 64 articles2026-08-29: 23 articles2026-08-30: 5 articles2026-08-31: 8 articles2026-09-01: 10 articles2026-09-02: 50 articles2026-09-03: 43 articles2026-09-04: 61 articles2026-09-05: 25 articles2026-09-06: 26 articles2026-09-07: 26 articles2026-09-08: 40 articles2026-09-09: 58 articles2026-09-10: 47 articles2026-09-11: 63 articles2026-09-12: 29 articles2026-09-13: 20 articles2026-09-14: 58 articles2026-09-15: 55 articles2026-09-16: 62 articles2026-09-17: 48 articles2026-09-18: 48 articles2026-09-19: 35 articles2026-09-20: 25 articles2026-09-21: 35 articles2026-09-22: 51 articles2026-09-23: 56 articles2026-09-24: 48 articles2026-09-25: 55 articles2026-09-26: 25 articles2026-09-27: 27 articles2026-09-28: 56 articles2026-09-29: 42 articles2026-09-30: 65 articles2026-10-01: 51 articles2026-10-02: 48 articles2026-10-03: 25 articles2026-10-04: 23 articles2026-10-05: 55 articles2026-10-06: 53 articles2026-10-07: 66 articles2026-10-08: 53 articles2026-10-09: 55 articles2026-10-10: 29 articles2026-10-11: 21 articles2026-10-12: 45 articles2026-10-13: 47 articles2026-10-14: 49 articles2026-10-15: 51 articles2026-10-16: 51 articles2026-10-17: 25 articles2026-10-18: 22 articles2026-10-19: 24 articles2026-10-20: 45 articles2026-10-21: 61 articles2026-10-22: 42 articles07-2409-0809-2310-0810-22

The 29 hatched days are gaps in the upstream news archive, not quiet days at Iowa Public Radio: the whole corpus dips on those dates. They are excluded from the median above.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=www.iowapublicradio.org&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Iowa Public Radio actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 2,725 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 340001: 450102: 340203: 250304: 3780405: 3470506: 1320607: 2350708: 2300809: 640910: 411011: 1161112: 3181213: 591314: 581415: 701516: 1701617: 2311718: 781819: 231920: 122021: 82122: 112223: 623
Mon: 329MonTue: 443TueWed: 546WedThu: 474ThuFri: 507FriSat: 243SatSun: 183Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 89% of their articles.

SectionArticles
entertainment2,213
News from NPR144
Political News19
Arts & Life15
Iowa News13
Books9
Agriculture6
Environment6
Harvest Public Media4
Health4
health3
State Government News2
Education1

Languages

The site identifies itself under Iowa Public Radio, NPR — separate editions publishing under one domain.

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
engeng2,21081.1%
enEnglish51518.9%

Latest articles

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

What to know about election integrity safeguards ahead of the midterms
2026-10-22 12:18 UTC · Political News · Rachel Cramer
County auditors around the state are warning voters of a social media post that falsely claims paper ballots marked by poll workers will be disqualified in the midterm el
Nobel laureate reflects on U.S. turn towards Russia
2026-10-22 12:00 UTC · entertainment
Iowa’s 4th District is a Republican stronghold where turnout could shape statewide races
2026-10-22 11:08 UTC · Political News · Sheila Brummer
Republican Chris McGowan is favored to win the race in Iowa’s 4th Congressional District — the state’s most conservative House seat. But Democrat Dave Dawson is trying ta
1st Congressional District candidates debate tariffs, war in Iran
2026-10-22 08:00 UTC · Ben Kieffer; Samantha McIntosh; Neve Kel
On this episode, analysis of the sole 1st District debate between Republican Rep. Miller-Meeks and Democratic challenger Christina Bohannon held this week from Kelly Winf
Disability advocates illustrate the importance of accessible public spaces
2026-10-22 08:00 UTC · Charity Nebbe; Dani Gehr; Madeleine Will
The Americans with Disabilities Act has done a lot to improve accessibility in public spaces, but people with physical disabilities still encounter barriers every day. Ho
Thursday, October 22nd, 2026
2026-10-22 07:45 UTC
President Trump is set to be in Iowa today. A poll shows many Americans feel the economic pinch from rising inflation. And how can the election for Iowa's open 4th Congre

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.iowapublicradio.org&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.iowapublicradio.org&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 Iowa Public Radio marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

18%
dates from JSON-LD
16%
articles with a byline
89%
articles with sections
162 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 303 min at the median, 1716 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Iowa Public Radio 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 2,725 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Iowa Public Radio publish per day?

46 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.