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Wednesday Journal API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Wednesday Journal publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 477 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United StatesEnglish#9,321 by volume

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

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

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

society 62%

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Wednesday Journal headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.oakpark.com&size=5"
477
articles indexed
179
in the last 30 days
3
median per day
1
languages
12 min
median crawl lag
25.08 → 18.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 19 days. The busiest hour is 18:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-25: 25 articles2026-08-26: 3 articles2026-08-27: 12 articles2026-08-28: 2 articles2026-08-31: 3 articles2026-09-01: 35 articles2026-09-02: 2 articles2026-09-03: 8 articles2026-09-04: 2 articles2026-09-08: 29 articles2026-09-09: 4 articles2026-09-10: 1 articles2026-09-11: 4 articles2026-09-12: 1 articles2026-09-14: 2 articles2026-09-15: 37 articles2026-09-16: 3 articles2026-09-17: 4 articles2026-09-18: 2 articles08-2508-2809-0209-0809-1109-1509-18
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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=www.oakpark.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Wednesday Journal actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 477 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 00001: 00102: 00203: 00304: 30405: 30506: 00607: 00708: 00809: 00910: 01011: 01112: 01213: 11314: 101415: 111516: 191617: 371718: 531819: 191920: 122021: 62122: 22223: 323
Mon: 5MonTue: 126TueWed: 12WedThu: 25ThuFri: 10FriSat: 1SatSun: 0Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 36% of their articles.

SectionArticles
society65

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish17937.5%

Latest articles

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

Sea Love Oak Park makes candles and community
2026-09-18 20:14 UTC
One might think making a candle is all about fun and creating something that smells nice. At Sea Love in Oak Park, it’s so much more – it’s a ritual, it’s a story, and it
Oak Park hosts children Art and Play for Park(ing) Day
2026-09-18 20:06 UTC
A portion of street parking in downtown Oak Park was turned into a children’s play area on Friday to celebrate the world-wide Park(ing) Day. The post Oak Park hosts child
Goal-setting key to opening weeks of Willard School year
2026-09-17 21:42 UTC
It’s the beginning of the end for Aimee Conrad. The Willard School first grade teacher is in the first weeks of her final year teaching before retirement, after beginning
Oak Park creates pricing tiers to reduce water use
2026-09-17 20:45 UTC
The village board voted to move forward with an alternative rate structure for the next five years that creates two-tiers for water usage and billing instead of the flat-
Manoj Prasad out at West Sub after selling his stake to landlord Reddy Patlola
2026-09-17 20:34 UTC
Manoj Prasad is out as owner and CEO of West Suburban Medical Center and Weiss Memorial Hospital after reaching an agreement with his business partner and landlord, Rathn
With goal of full funding, new payment model for fire pension explored by Finance Committee
2026-09-17 20:26 UTC
The current structure for paying into the police and fire pension is not working the way it needs to in order to meet the village goals of fully funding those pensions by
When You Don’t Know Where to Start, Start With Us
2026-09-16 16:55 UTC
Sometimes the hardest part of asking for help is simply knowing where to begin. Maybe you are helping a parent sort through Medicaid paperwork. Maybe a spouse has new car
First United: Faith and Connection for All Ages
2026-09-16 16:20 UTC
First United Church of Oak Park is a union church of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the United Church of Christ dedicated to sharing Christ’s radically inclusive love.
Print Edition: September 16, 2026
2026-09-16 14:37 UTC
The post Print Edition: September 16, 2026 appeared first on Wednesday Journal .
My Account
2026-09-15 23:57 UTC · society
Memorial Mass for Patrick Newton
2026-09-15 19:21 UTC
Patrick Newton, 67, died on July 8, 2026. His obituary ran on Aug. 5. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. in St. Edmund Church, 188 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, f
Rev. Jerry Broccolo, 87
2026-09-15 19:17 UTC
Rev. Gerard T. Broccolo, 87, retired priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago and former pastor of Ascension Parish in Oak Park, died on Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. Born on June 1
Erik Sharpe, 32
2026-09-15 19:15 UTC
Erik L. Sharpe died tragically on Aug. 20, 2026 in Leesburg, Florida. Born in Victorville, California on May 6, 1994, he grew up in the Oak Park-River Forest area. He was
Nona Stamp George, 83
2026-09-15 19:12 UTC
Nona Stamp George, 83, a resident of Centennial, Colorado since December 2023, formerly of Chicago and River Forest, died on Aug. 11, 2026, after a long illness. Born on
Shrubtown: Affordability
2026-09-15 19:10 UTC
The post Shrubtown: Affordability appeared first on Wednesday Journal .
Where oaks find safe arbor
2026-09-15 19:07 UTC
I think that I shall never see An oak among our downtown trees … As our trees begin to please, turning color, some sooner, some later, I thought I would revisit a column
Let neighbors show you how
2026-09-15 19:04 UTC
Do I insulate my house first and then install heat pump HVAC — or the other way around? Who should I trust to install rooftop solar? If I switch to an induction stove, wi
Long live the Monarchs!
2026-09-15 19:00 UTC
The iconic Monarch butterfly appears to have had a very good summer this year in Oak Park. I haven’t seen this many in decades. I don’t know if this is a local phenomenon

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=www.oakpark.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=www.oakpark.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 Wednesday Journal 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
36%
articles with sections
—
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 12 min at the median, 4203 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Wednesday Journal 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 477 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Wednesday Journal publish per day?

3 on a median day, measured across 19 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.