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Open Comedy API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Open Comedy publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 17 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United KingdomEnglish#18,571 by volume

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

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

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

entertainment 100%

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Open Comedy headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=opencomedy.com&size=5"
17
articles indexed
10
in the last 30 days
3
median per day
1
languages
957 min
median crawl lag
25.08 → 28.08
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 4 days. The busiest hour is 15:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-25: 2 articles2026-08-26: 4 articles2026-08-27: 3 articles2026-08-28: 1 articles08-2508-2608-2708-28
bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=opencomedy.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Open Comedy actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 17 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 00001: 00102: 10203: 10304: 00405: 00506: 00607: 00708: 20809: 00910: 01011: 01112: 01213: 01314: 01415: 21516: 01617: 11718: 01819: 21920: 02021: 02122: 02223: 123
Mon: 0MonTue: 2TueWed: 4WedThu: 3ThuFri: 1FriSat: 0SatSun: 0Sun

Sections

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

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish1058.8%

Latest articles

The 10 most recent Open Comedy articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

Malcolm Hardee Award 2026 nominees and the prize money
2026-08-27 02:59 UTC · Comedy News · River Leanox
Three nominations, 20 new shows and no prize money listed - the Malcolm Hardee Award 2026 nominees landed on 26 August, and one of them plays free at 19.40.
How to film a comedy clip that bookers actually watch
2026-08-26 19:48 UTC · entertainment
A £10 Licence for Comedy Bookers Goes to Westminster
2026-08-26 19:35 UTC · Industry Trends · River Leanox
MPs heard a £10 licence plan for comedy bookers on 28 April, next to Chortle's count of 470 male and 184 female slots on 168 weekend club bills. No report yet.
Crudi Dench Wins the £1,500 Bannerett Award at the Fringe
2026-08-26 08:42 UTC · Comedy News · River Leanox
The £1,500 went to a Liverpool drag act at Bannerman's on 24 August, six days before the Fringe run ends - how the Bannerett Award works and who pays for it.
How to Write a Tight Five That Survives a Gong Show
2026-08-25 15:59 UTC · Stand Up Comedy Tips · River Leanox
Five minutes at King Gong, seven at So You Think You're Funny, two five-minute slots at Red Raw - how to build a tight five that survives all three rooms.
ISH Awards Prize Fund Hits £17,600.01 After Starr Gift
2026-08-25 15:51 UTC · Comedy News · River Leanox
Every ISH awards nominee collects £100 at the 11.30pm ceremony on Friday 28 August, but only in person. The prize fund is now £17,600.01 after a £1,600 gift.

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=opencomedy.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:

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=opencomedy.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 Open Comedy marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

50%
dates from JSON-LD
50%
articles with a byline
100%
articles with sections
75 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 957 min at the median, 2606 minutes at the 90th percentile.

FAQ

Does Open Comedy 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 17 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Open Comedy publish per day?

3 on a median day, measured across 4 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.