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Laois Live API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Laois Live publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 1,830 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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Four ways to pull leinsterexpress.ie

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

JSON Search this publisher

Every article we hold from leinsterexpress.ie, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

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

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

sport 39%business 12%society 10%property 8%transport 8%

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Laois Live headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.leinsterexpress.ie&size=5"
1,830
articles indexed
900
in the last 30 days
31
median per day
1
languages
14 min
median crawl lag
25.08 → 22.10
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 59 days. The busiest hour is 16:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-25: 23 articles2026-08-26: 37 articles2026-08-27: 40 articles2026-08-28: 34 articles2026-08-29: 26 articles2026-08-30: 65 articles2026-08-31: 35 articles2026-09-01: 27 articles2026-09-02: 29 articles2026-09-03: 30 articles2026-09-04: 20 articles2026-09-05: 17 articles2026-09-06: 23 articles2026-09-07: 36 articles2026-09-08: 26 articles2026-09-09: 27 articles2026-09-10: 33 articles2026-09-11: 31 articles2026-09-12: 30 articles2026-09-13: 26 articles2026-09-14: 35 articles2026-09-15: 47 articles2026-09-16: 42 articles2026-09-17: 37 articles2026-09-18: 32 articles2026-09-19: 23 articles2026-09-20: 34 articles2026-09-21: 34 articles2026-09-22: 31 articles2026-09-23: 34 articles2026-09-24: 30 articles2026-09-25: 24 articles2026-09-26: 24 articles2026-09-27: 31 articles2026-09-28: 28 articles2026-09-29: 30 articles2026-09-30: 34 articles2026-10-01: 32 articles2026-10-02: 22 articles2026-10-03: 31 articles2026-10-04: 30 articles2026-10-05: 30 articles2026-10-06: 40 articles2026-10-07: 33 articles2026-10-08: 28 articles2026-10-09: 30 articles2026-10-10: 27 articles2026-10-11: 26 articles2026-10-12: 33 articles2026-10-13: 32 articles2026-10-14: 39 articles2026-10-15: 36 articles2026-10-16: 26 articles2026-10-17: 19 articles2026-10-18: 34 articles2026-10-19: 28 articles2026-10-20: 34 articles2026-10-21: 32 articles2026-10-22: 23 articles08-2509-0309-1209-2109-3010-0910-1810-22
bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=www.leinsterexpress.ie&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Laois Live actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 1,830 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 10001: 20102: 10203: 00304: 10405: 30506: 300607: 380708: 570809: 1210910: 991011: 1611112: 1631213: 1091314: 1061415: 1591516: 1981617: 1401718: 1541819: 1121920: 1032021: 432122: 02223: 2923
Mon: 259MonTue: 290TueWed: 307WedThu: 289ThuFri: 219FriSat: 197SatSun: 269Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 41% of their articles.

SectionArticles
sport746

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish1,830100.0%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent Laois Live articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

Woman (18) with no driving licence caught speeding on Laois motorway
2026-10-22 20:40 UTC
Teenager stopped on motorway at Mountrath with four other people in the car
Man accused of assaulting sister's ex allowed to visit Portarlington
2026-10-22 18:40 UTC
He appeared before a sitting of Portlaoise District Court
'Who is ripping us off now?' Laois Councillor wants to know
2026-10-22 18:10 UTC
Cllr Ollie Clooney raised the issue at a meeting of Mountmellick Borris-in-Ossory Municipal District
IN PICTURES: Commemoration marks 50th anniversary of the Garryhinch bombing
2026-10-22 17:40 UTC
Garda Michael Clerkin was 24 years-old when he was killed in the bomb blast in Portarlington 50 years ago
Ireland faces double weather battering as Storm Boelo to follow Storm Austen
2026-10-22 17:15 UTC
The second named storm of the season is expected to bring further heavy rain and strong winds over the October bank holiday weekend
Gardaí conduct operation on the rail line between Portarlington and Dublin
2026-10-22 17:10 UTC
Gardai who were joined by Irish Rail staff as part of Operation Twin Tracks
Extreme weather made N80 Laois road crack open with 'emergency repairs' ahead
2026-10-22 16:55 UTC
Portlaoise to Mountmellick main road ‘failed’ in section crossing a bog blamed on ‘extreme weather’
Death notices for Laois - Thursday, October 22
2026-10-22 15:50 UTC
Laois death notices and funeral arrangements
Who are the guests on this week's Late Late Show as incredible line-up revealed
2026-10-22 15:15 UTC
Philippa Dunne, Sharlene Mawdsley and Nicola Tallant will join Patrick Kielty this Friday night
Portlaoise roadworks starting for new €140,000 rainwater garden
2026-10-22 15:04 UTC
As Storm Austen approaches, another flood prevention flowerbed is planned for Portlaoise.
RIP: Search for missing 35-year-old man stood down amid tragic Garda update
2026-10-22 13:15 UTC
Joshua O'Hagan was reported missing from his home on Tuesday
Acclaimed Italian musician to perform at Laois festival
2026-10-22 12:40 UTC
The concert is being held as part of Tionól Harp + Pipes festival in Castletown
Laois drug and obstruction charges struck out
2026-10-22 12:10 UTC
The charges were struck out at Portlaoise District Court
‘We can’t keep picking up these bills’ – Laois councillors bemoan unfinished housing estates
2026-10-22 12:00 UTC
Laois councillors say housing estate developers should pay for road features and seek stronger planning conditions
Laois man left paralysed after accident leads new construction safety campaign
2026-10-22 11:30 UTC
James Gorry from Portarlington plays a central role in the Construction Industry Federation’s Construction Safety Campaign

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.leinsterexpress.ie&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.leinsterexpress.ie&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 Laois Live 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
41%
articles with sections
—
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 14 min at the median, 1321 minutes at the 90th percentile.

Similar publishers

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FAQ

Does Laois Live 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 1,830 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Laois Live publish per day?

31 on a median day, measured across 59 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.