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Keeping It Heel API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Keeping It Heel publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 301 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United StatesEnglish#6,793 by volume

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

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

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

sport 100%

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Keeping It Heel headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=keepingitheel.com&size=5"
301
articles indexed
257
in the last 30 days
8
median per day
1
languages
14399 min
median crawl lag
31.07 → 07.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 38 days. The busiest hour is 23:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-07-31: 4 articles2026-08-01: 2 articles2026-08-02: 2 articles2026-08-03: 2 articles2026-08-04: 5 articles2026-08-05: 8 articles2026-08-06: 8 articles2026-08-07: 8 articles2026-08-08: 6 articles2026-08-09: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-10: 9 articles2026-08-11: 9 articles2026-08-12: 12 articles2026-08-13: 9 articles2026-08-14: 3 articles2026-08-15: 12 articles2026-08-16: 6 articles2026-08-17: 12 articles2026-08-18: 9 articles2026-08-19: 6 articles2026-08-20: 9 articles2026-08-21: 12 articles2026-08-22: 3 articles2026-08-23: 9 articles2026-08-24: 3 articles2026-08-25: 16 articles2026-08-26: 16 articles2026-08-27: 8 articles2026-08-28: 8 articles2026-08-29: 32 articles2026-08-30: 4 articles2026-08-31: 8 articles2026-09-01: 4 articles2026-09-02: 6 articles2026-09-03: 15 articles2026-09-04: 6 articles2026-09-05: 3 articles2026-09-07: 2 articles07-3108-0608-1208-1808-2408-3009-0509-07

The 1 hatched days are gaps in the upstream news archive, not quiet days at Keeping It Heel: 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=keepingitheel.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Keeping It Heel actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 301 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 220001: 30102: 00203: 00304: 00405: 00506: 00607: 00708: 00809: 00910: 11011: 111112: 41213: 131314: 131415: 401516: 361617: 261718: 191819: 241920: 172021: 112122: 182223: 4323
Mon: 36MonTue: 43TueWed: 48WedThu: 49ThuFri: 41FriSat: 58SatSun: 26Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 10% of their articles.

SectionArticles
sport31

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish301100.0%

Latest articles

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

Bryce Baker's collegiate debut shows UNC what they missed out on
2026-09-07 00:02 UTC
The former Tar Heels' debut performance for Virginia Tech showed flashes of just how good he can be down the road.
Michael Malone's fiery message for UNC fans shows what's been missing in Chapel Hill
2026-09-04 17:28 UTC
Michael Malone didn't hold back with his special message for North Carolina fans, and it will have people even more fired up for the regular season to start.
UNC legend Tyler Hansbrough rightfully rips the NCAA for the eligibility mess haunting everyone
2026-09-04 15:06 UTC
Tyler Hansbrough called out the NCAA for the currently eligibility issues rocking college basketball, and he's not wrong.
Michael Lombardi releases statement after resigning as UNC football's general manager
2026-09-03 23:42 UTC
What did the former general manager of the Tar Heels have to say regarding his resignation?
Michael Lombardi steps down as UNC football's GM following tumultuous tenure
2026-09-03 21:07 UTC
After over a month of waiting, we finally have some news on the Michael Lombardi situation.
The Michael Malone era at UNC takes shape with his first official staff reveal
2026-09-03 19:07 UTC
North Carolina has officially revealed the coaching staff that will help Michael Malone navigate this new era of Carolina basketball.
Michael Malone implementing a needed accountability mindset to get UNC back to old standards
2026-09-03 17:50 UTC
Michael Malone is entering his first season leading North Carolina with several changes in mind, including making sure standards are high at all times.
Michael Malone explains how UNC is handling Cameron Fens' ongoing situation
2026-09-03 14:52 UTC
While speaking to the media, the head coach of the Tar Heels provided insight as to how UNC is handling Cameron Fens' ongoing eligibility situation.
UNC's projected roster financial commitment proves the support is back under Michael Malone
2026-09-02 23:40 UTC
The roster budget for the 2026-2027 season is eye-popping, but it tells so much about the state of the program ahead of the start of this new era.
UNC women's basketball's completed schedule is loaded with tests from start to finish
2026-09-02 18:50 UTC
We now know the official gauntlet that Courtney Banghart and the UNC women's basketball program will face this upcoming season.

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=keepingitheel.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=keepingitheel.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 Keeping It Heel 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
10%
articles with sections
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 14399 min at the median, 34201 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Keeping It Heel 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 301 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Keeping It Heel publish per day?

8 on a median day, measured across 38 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.