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Kansas Public Radio API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Kansas Public Radio publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 192 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United StatesengEnglish#8,909 by volume

Four ways to pull kansaspublicradio.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 kansaspublicradio.org, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

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

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

conflict 25%health 25%politics 25%

Call the API

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

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=kansaspublicradio.org&size=5"
192
articles indexed
192
in the last 30 days
24
median per day
2
languages
774 min
median crawl lag
25.08 → 06.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 10 days. The busiest hour is 05:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-25: 10 articles2026-08-26: 25 articles2026-08-27: 30 articles2026-08-28: 24 articles2026-08-29: 8 articles2026-09-02: 21 articles2026-09-03: 25 articles2026-09-04: 31 articles2026-09-05: 10 articles2026-09-06: 8 articles08-2508-2608-2708-2808-2909-0209-0309-0409-0509-06
bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=kansaspublicradio.org&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Kansas Public Radio actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 192 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 20001: 80102: 30203: 80304: 70405: 420506: 140607: 120708: 30809: 80910: 121011: 121112: 91213: 91314: 111415: 81516: 111617: 61718: 31819: 11920: 12021: 02122: 12223: 123
Mon: 0MonTue: 10TueWed: 46WedThu: 55ThuFri: 55FriSat: 18SatSun: 8Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 99% of their articles.

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
engeng16887.5%
enEnglish2412.5%

Latest articles

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

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=kansaspublicradio.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:

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=kansaspublicradio.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 Kansas Public Radio marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

12%
dates from JSON-LD
12%
articles with a byline
99%
articles with sections
207 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 774 min at the median, 2660 minutes at the 90th percentile.

Similar publishers

Comparable outlets in the same language. Those without a page here yet link straight to their slice of the API.

FAQ

Does Kansas 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 192 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Kansas Public Radio publish per day?

24 on a median day, measured across 10 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.