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KRCU Public Radio API, RSS and sitemap

Every article KRCU Public Radio publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 3,845 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United StatesengEnglish#2,029 by volume

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

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

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

entertainment 31%health 15%

Call the API

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

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.krcu.org&size=5"
3,845
articles indexed
1,609
in the last 30 days
54
median per day
2
languages
380 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: 10 articles2026-07-26: 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 dips2026-08-02: 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: 54 articles2026-08-26: 74 articles2026-08-27: 69 articles2026-08-28: 60 articles2026-08-29: 37 articles2026-08-30: 2 articles2026-08-31: 5 articles2026-09-01: 5 articles2026-09-02: 54 articles2026-09-03: 61 articles2026-09-04: 59 articles2026-09-05: 41 articles2026-09-06: 43 articles2026-09-07: 35 articles2026-09-08: 51 articles2026-09-09: 63 articles2026-09-10: 50 articles2026-09-11: 54 articles2026-09-12: 42 articles2026-09-13: 33 articles2026-09-14: 59 articles2026-09-15: 67 articles2026-09-16: 66 articles2026-09-17: 62 articles2026-09-18: 58 articles2026-09-19: 42 articles2026-09-20: 39 articles2026-09-21: 55 articles2026-09-22: 59 articles2026-09-23: 58 articles2026-09-24: 67 articles2026-09-25: 62 articles2026-09-26: 38 articles2026-09-27: 38 articles2026-09-28: 70 articles2026-09-29: 55 articles2026-09-30: 65 articles2026-10-01: 57 articles2026-10-02: 54 articles2026-10-03: 36 articles2026-10-04: 39 articles2026-10-05: 48 articles2026-10-06: 56 articles2026-10-07: 63 articles2026-10-08: 58 articles2026-10-09: 63 articles2026-10-10: 42 articles2026-10-11: 36 articles2026-10-12: 53 articles2026-10-13: 58 articles2026-10-14: 44 articles2026-10-15: 67 articles2026-10-16: 61 articles2026-10-17: 39 articles2026-10-18: 35 articles2026-10-19: 26 articles2026-10-20: 57 articles2026-10-21: 67 articles2026-10-22: 38 articles07-2409-0809-2310-0810-22

The 29 hatched days are gaps in the upstream news archive, not quiet days at KRCU 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.krcu.org&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When KRCU Public Radio actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 3,845 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 2090001: 540102: 430203: 270304: 7450405: 3980506: 2180607: 2750708: 1870809: 800910: 481011: 691112: 2081213: 811314: 731415: 831516: 3821617: 4481718: 1361819: 361920: 202021: 82122: 102223: 723
Mon: 483MonTue: 585TueWed: 698WedThu: 662ThuFri: 632FriSat: 431SatSun: 354Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 69% of their articles.

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
engeng2,62268.2%
enEnglish1,22331.8%

Latest articles

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

Tiny Desk Radio: Shirley Caesar, Sam Smith, CeCe Winans
2026-10-22 12:00 UTC · entertainment
Backroad Weekly: Rocky Falls
2026-10-22 12:00 UTC · Caitlan Hester
If you're in the Cape Girardeau area of Southeast Missouri like me, this week's day trip is a long haul, at about a 2.5-hour drive. But holy Ozarks, is it worth every gas
Achy from sitting at a desk all day? Try doing this
2026-10-22 05:01 UTC · entertainment
Trump merchandise stores are closing: 'He has peaked'
2026-10-22 05:00 UTC · entertainment

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.krcu.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=www.krcu.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 KRCU Public Radio marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

27%
dates from JSON-LD
27%
articles with a byline
69%
articles with sections
169 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 380 min at the median, 15446 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 KRCU 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 3,845 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does KRCU Public Radio publish per day?

54 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.