no key · no human

Nigeria News Update API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Nigeria News Update publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 421 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

NigeriaEnglish#5,336 by volume

Four ways to pull nnu.ng

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

JSON Search this publisher

Every article we hold from nnu.ng, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

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

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

crime 29%politics 15%sport 12%

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Nigeria News Update headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=nnu.ng&size=5"
421
articles indexed
421
in the last 30 days
100
median per day
1
languages
2659 min
median crawl lag
20.08 → 06.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 6 days. The busiest hour is 20:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-20: 50 articles2026-08-21: 106 articles2026-08-22: 46 articles2026-09-04: 100 articles2026-09-05: 115 articles2026-09-06: 4 articles08-2008-2108-2209-0409-0509-06
bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=nnu.ng&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Nigeria News Update actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 421 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 80001: 00102: 20203: 50304: 150405: 100506: 190607: 250708: 130809: 250910: 161011: 161112: 181213: 191314: 171415: 211516: 231617: 211718: 231819: 241920: 492021: 342122: 122223: 623
Mon: 0MonTue: 0TueWed: 0WedThu: 50ThuFri: 206FriSat: 161SatSun: 4Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 100% of their articles.

SectionArticles
crime421
politics421

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish421100.0%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent Nigeria News Update articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

Millions licensed to die under power lines!
2026-09-06 04:24 UTC · crime

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=nnu.ng&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=nnu.ng&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 Nigeria News Update 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
100%
articles with sections
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 2659 min at the median, 9492 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 Nigeria News Update 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 421 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Nigeria News Update publish per day?

100 on a median day, measured across 6 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.