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Meaning In History API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Meaning In History publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 156 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=meaninginhistory.substack.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.

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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=meaninginhistory.substack.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=meaninginhistory.substack.com&size=20&fields=title,url,published_at,lang"open it →

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Meaning In History headlines come back as JSON.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=meaninginhistory.substack.com&size=5"
156
articles indexed
29
in the last 30 days
2
median per day
1
languages
204 min
median crawl lag
08.06 → 26.08
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 75 days. The busiest hour is 00:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-06-08: 2 articles2026-06-09: 2 articles2026-06-10: 3 articles2026-06-11: 8 articles2026-06-12: 1 articles2026-06-13: 1 articles2026-06-14: 3 articles2026-06-15: 2 articles2026-06-17: 3 articles2026-06-18: 1 articles2026-06-19: 3 articles2026-06-20: 1 articles2026-06-21: 2 articles2026-06-22: 1 articles2026-06-24: 3 articles2026-06-25: 1 articles2026-06-26: 2 articles2026-06-27: 2 articles2026-06-29: 2 articles2026-06-30: 1 articles2026-07-01: 1 articles2026-07-02: 2 articles2026-07-04: 3 articles2026-07-05: 1 articles2026-07-06: 1 articles2026-07-07: 3 articles2026-07-08: 2 articles2026-07-09: 3 articles2026-07-10: 1 articles2026-07-11: 1 articles2026-07-12: 5 articles2026-07-13: 2 articles2026-07-14: 3 articles2026-07-15: 1 articles2026-07-17: 5 articles2026-07-18: 3 articles2026-07-19: 2 articles2026-07-20: 3 articles2026-07-21: 2 articles2026-07-22: 3 articles2026-07-23: 2 articles2026-07-24: 3 articles2026-07-25: 2 articles2026-07-26: 2 articles2026-07-27: 2 articles2026-07-28: 1 articles2026-07-29: 2 articles2026-07-30: 3 articles2026-07-31: 2 articles2026-08-01: 3 articles2026-08-02: 5 articles2026-08-03: 1 articles2026-08-04: 3 articles2026-08-05: 3 articles2026-08-06: 2 articles2026-08-07: 2 articles2026-08-08: 2 articles2026-08-09: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-10: 3 articles2026-08-11: 1 articles2026-08-12: 1 articles2026-08-13: 1 articles2026-08-14: 2 articles2026-08-15: 1 articles2026-08-16: 1 articles2026-08-17: 1 articles2026-08-18: 1 articles2026-08-19: 2 articles2026-08-20: 2 articles2026-08-21: 1 articles2026-08-22: 1 articles2026-08-23: 1 articles2026-08-24: 2 articles2026-08-25: 3 articles2026-08-26: 1 articles06-0806-2107-0607-1907-3108-1208-2408-26

The 1 hatched days are gaps in the upstream news archive, not quiet days at Meaning In History: 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=meaninginhistory.substack.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Meaning In History actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 156 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 200001: 30102: 40203: 10304: 00405: 00506: 00607: 00708: 00809: 00910: 01011: 01112: 51213: 101314: 161415: 131516: 121617: 101718: 131819: 151920: 152021: 52122: 92223: 723
Mon: 22MonTue: 20TueWed: 25WedThu: 25ThuFri: 22FriSat: 20SatSun: 24Sun

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish158101.3%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent Meaning In History articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

Ratcliffe Gets Stiffed In Moscow; Bessent - Epstein Connection
2026-08-26 13:37 UTC · Mark Wauck
Trump continues his obsessively narcissistic pursuit of using his own brand for base profit—at the expense of the American brand, which he is dragging through the mire.
Hanke: Trump Is A Captive Of The War (2)
2026-08-25 22:45 UTC · Mark Wauck
In the earlier version of this post I left out a key point, namely, that for all the escalated rhetoric directed at Iran, behind the scenes the Trump regime is begging Ir
Hanke: Trump Is A Captive Of The War
2026-08-25 20:07 UTC · Mark Wauck
Economist Steve Hanke offered that bit of wisdom this morning, speaking with Lena Petrova.
Spec: Current Status Of The Hormuz Game
2026-08-25 13:47 UTC · Mark Wauck
This is going to be speculative, and I need to run for other duties this morning.
Whoa! So Much For KSA’s Red Sea Outlet
2026-08-24 18:20 UTC · Mark Wauck
This is fascinating. The problem with Suez as an outlet to export Saudi oil—transfered by pipeline from the Persian Gulf to Yanbu on the Red Sea—is that Suez can’t handle
Monday, The Start Of A Wild Week?
2026-08-24 15:24 UTC · Mark Wauck
A wild week is set to begin this morning with Bessent’s sanctions speech—if that’s what happens.
What A Week!
2026-08-23 19:52 UTC · Mark Wauck
Give or take a few days, anyway. As best I can remember, it started with leaks that Trump was considering—once again—using nukes on Iran. But wait, it turned out that Hor
Trump Threatens To Bomb Bond Sellers; More Re What They’re Hiding From Us
2026-08-22 17:08 UTC · Mark Wauck
No, I’m not making that up. I’m not exaggerating. For context, back when Trump was campaigning, in September 2024, Trump stated that he would take drastic action against
How Much Is Being Hidden From US?
2026-08-21 20:27 UTC · Mark Wauck
I’m as guilty as anyone of calling the war on Iran “Trump’s war”, although I also pepper my posts with references to the Anglo-Zionist war or the Jewish Nationalist war.
Short And Sweet: Gromen On The Clownshow
2026-08-20 18:02 UTC · Mark Wauck
The people who run the world get this. Luke Gromen @LukeGromen 20h “Elon can DOGE up to $1T out of the Federal budget”... “As the debtor, the US has all the trade war le
Trump, Bessent Flailing, Exposing Imperial Decline
2026-08-20 13:46 UTC · Mark Wauck
Yesterday saw two Trump regime initiatives that were intended to shore up sagging imperial appearances of power.
Trump’s Long War
2026-08-19 18:51 UTC · Mark Wauck
We all know that Trump thought his war on Iran would be a weekend war.
America in the Grip of a Foreign Power
2026-08-19 00:18 UTC · Mark Wauck
I’ve done a partial and highly edited transcript—with comments—of Glenn Diesen’s interview with Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick, co-authors of the new book on Israel’s Lobby.
More Warning Signs
2026-08-18 14:55 UTC · Mark Wauck
Is this latest Trump tweet part of a strategy by Trump to convince the world not to mess with a crazy guy?
Trump Back To Thinking Nukes, And Other Bad Stuff
2026-08-17 20:41 UTC · Mark Wauck
The big story over the weekend was MTG warning that Trump is seriously back to talking up using nukes on Iran.
Update: Mostly Economic Front
2026-08-16 19:12 UTC · Mark Wauck
We’ve been maintaining all along that the Jewish Nationalist war on the world is a war to maintain global financialized hegemony.
Debasification Exposes Trump's Folly
2026-08-15 15:47 UTC · Mark Wauck
Yesterday afternoon, as usual with Fridays during this Trump war, featured the usual absurdities from Trump.
It's Friday Afternoon And Trump's Still Crazy
2026-08-14 21:17 UTC · Mark Wauck
What can I say? President Donald Trump announced on August 14, 2026, that he plans to soon declare the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory following the defeat of Iran.  S

Harvest it all

Page through the archive by date. from and to accept YYYY-MM-DD or relative values such as now-7d.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=meaninginhistory.substack.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:

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=meaninginhistory.substack.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 Meaning In History marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

100%
dates from JSON-LD
100%
articles with a byline
0%
articles with sections
162 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 204 min at the median, 470 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Meaning In History 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 156 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Meaning In History publish per day?

2 on a median day, measured across 75 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.