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Pipes|Drums API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Pipes|Drums publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 121 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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

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

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Pipes|Drums headlines come back as JSON.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.pipesdrums.com&size=5"
121
articles indexed
33
in the last 30 days
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median per day
1
languages
1375 min
median crawl lag
20.06 → 17.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 78 days. The busiest hour is 00:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-06-20: 1 articles2026-06-21: 1 articles2026-06-22: 1 articles2026-06-23: 1 articles2026-06-24: 1 articles2026-06-26: 1 articles2026-06-27: 1 articles2026-06-29: 2 articles2026-06-30: 1 articles2026-07-01: 1 articles2026-07-02: 1 articles2026-07-04: 1 articles2026-07-05: 1 articles2026-07-06: 1 articles2026-07-07: 1 articles2026-07-08: 1 articles2026-07-09: 1 articles2026-07-10: 1 articles2026-07-11: 1 articles2026-07-13: 1 articles2026-07-14: 1 articles2026-07-15: 1 articles2026-07-16: 1 articles2026-07-17: 1 articles2026-07-18: 1 articles2026-07-19: 2 articles2026-07-20: 1 articles2026-07-21: 2 articles2026-07-22: 4 articles2026-07-23: 1 articles2026-07-25: 2 articles2026-07-27: 1 articles2026-07-28: 2 articles2026-07-29: 2 articles2026-07-30: 1 articles2026-07-31: 1 articles2026-08-01: 1 articles2026-08-02: 1 articles2026-08-03: 1 articles2026-08-04: 2 articles2026-08-05: 3 articles2026-08-06: 1 articles2026-08-07: 2 articles2026-08-08: 1 articles2026-08-09: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-10: 3 articles2026-08-11: 5 articles2026-08-12: 7 articles2026-08-13: 6 articles2026-08-14: 4 articles2026-08-15: 1 articles2026-08-18: 2 articles2026-08-19: 1 articles2026-08-20: 2 articles2026-08-21: 1 articles2026-08-23: 1 articles2026-08-24: 1 articles2026-08-25: 1 articles2026-08-26: 1 articles2026-08-27: 1 articles2026-08-28: 1 articles2026-08-29: 1 articles2026-08-30: 2 articles2026-08-31: 2 articles2026-09-01: 3 articles2026-09-02: 1 articles2026-09-03: 1 articles2026-09-04: 1 articles2026-09-05: 1 articles2026-09-06: 2 articles2026-09-07: 1 articles2026-09-09: 2 articles2026-09-10: 1 articles2026-09-11: 1 articles2026-09-13: 1 articles2026-09-14: 1 articles2026-09-15: 1 articles2026-09-17: 1 articles06-2007-0607-2008-0408-1909-0209-17

The 1 hatched days are gaps in the upstream news archive, not quiet days at Pipes|Drums: 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=www.pipesdrums.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Pipes|Drums actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 121 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 1200001: 00102: 00203: 00304: 00405: 00506: 00607: 00708: 00809: 00910: 01011: 01112: 01213: 01314: 01415: 01516: 01617: 01718: 01819: 01920: 02021: 02122: 02223: 023
Mon: 16MonTue: 22TueWed: 25WedThu: 18ThuFri: 14FriSat: 12SatSun: 13Sun

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish12099.2%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent Pipes|Drums articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

Another previously unpublished Jock McLellan piece: "Hands Across the Sea"
2026-09-17 00:00 UTC
We uncover yet another previously unpublished gem by the genius composer John "Jock" McLellan, DCM. Here, the manuscript of "Hands Across the Water," transcribed in McLel
Guest opinion: It's all about that bass . . . but is it really?
2026-09-15 00:00 UTC
Recruitment, retention and improvement of bass drummers in pipe bands can only come through teaching, respecting and nurturing
Scots College Sydney plays to new heights over Shanghai
2026-09-14 00:00 UTC
Pipe bands have played at and to great heights: Estes Park in Colorado at 7,522 feet above sea level; impromptu (and definitely entirely sober) 35,000-foot performances o
Video: Finlay Johnston in fine form at the 2026 Gillies Memorial Challenge Recital
2026-09-13 00:00 UTC
The 2026 Pipe-Major Alasdair Gillies Memorial Challenge Recital was another spectacular night of incredible musical creativity and technical brilliance by five of the wor
Set Tunes Series 2026: "The Sister's Lament"
2026-09-11 00:00 UTC
Next in our exclusive 2026 Set Tunes Series by Willie Donaldson is "The Sister's Lament," a relatively popular tune among more seasoned piobaireachd competitors. About "T
Building Leaders Part 2: Great pipe bands master the art of recruitment
2026-09-10 00:00 UTC
In Part 1 of his "Building Leaders" series, exclusively for pipes|drums subscribers, James Laughlin stressed the vital need for pipe-majors, lead-drummers, pipe-sergeants
Harry McNulty, 1933-2026
2026-09-09 00:00 UTC
Harry McNulty, one of the pipe band world’s most accomplished and widely respected figures, died on September 8, 2026, at the age of 93. A successful pipe-major with both
Shawn Tobin of Nepean, Ontario, wins the 2026 Pick the Six with his spot-on prediction!
2026-09-09 00:00 UTC
After the thousands of entries were assessed, Shawn Tobin of Nepean, Ontario, was the ONLY one to get the top six Grade 1 at the World Pipe Band Championships absolutely
Spirits high as Rachel Gray, Gary West and Angus D. MacColl win dream and dram prizes at 2026 Raasay Restitituion
2026-09-07 00:00 UTC
The singular Raasay Restitution solo piping competition once again put the accent on Hebridean culture and fun, this year moving from the Raasay Community Hall to the Raa
Cameron, Duncan, Durning, Muirhead do the business at Blairgrowrie
2026-09-06 00:00 UTC
Roybridge, Scotland's Sandy Cameron was the aggregate winner across the top Senior events at the popular annual Blairgowrie & Rattray Highland Games, where a total of 60
Stuart Liddell cleans up real good at 2026 Chatsworth Country Fair
2026-09-06 00:00 UTC
Winning three firsts and two seconds in the five events, Stuart Liddell of Inveraray, Scotland, gained the Chatsworth Champion Piper trophy at the annual Chatsworth Count
Zephan Knichel concludes terrific Scottish tour with overall win at Braemar
2026-09-05 00:00 UTC
Braemar, Scotland – July 5, 2026 –The annual Braemar Gathering was held in the rolling Royal Deeside landscape in good weather, and it was Ben McClamrock of Washington, D
Northern Meeting 2026 Day 2: Beaumont wins Clasp; Bonar wins A-Grade MSR; A-HP&J: Liddell; B-HP&J goes to Knichel
2026-09-04 00:00 UTC
Results from the second and final day of competitions at Eden Court Theatre in Inverness
Northern Meeting 2026: Calum Brown wins Gold Medal; Silver Medal goes to Callum Carn; Clasp qualifiers announced; Chris
2026-09-03 00:00 UTC
Results from the world's top non-invitational solo piping competition
Video: Ali Henderson on his game at the 2026 Gillies Memorial Challenge Recital
2026-09-02 00:00 UTC
The 2026 Pipe-Major Alasdair Gillies Memorial Challenge Recital was another spectacular night of incredible musical creativity and technical brilliance by five of the wor
2026 Northern Meeting the final big test for world's top solo pipers
2026-09-01 00:00 UTC
Inverness is set for two packed days of top-flight solo piping as the 2026 Northern Meeting brings the world's leading players together for the most prestigious non-invit
Ozzie Reid, influential western U.S. piping leader, dies
2026-09-01 00:00 UTC
Oswald "Ozzie" Reid, whose decades as a pipe-major, teacher, judge, and administrator made him one of the more influential figures in the development of piping and pipe b
2026 Raasay Restitution injects more fun and art into piping competition
2026-09-01 00:00 UTC
The Raasay Restitution Competition at the Raasay House Hotel, Isle of Raasay, Scotland, on September 5th is one of the world's most creative events for pipers, as 12 pipe

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.pipesdrums.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.pipesdrums.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 Pipes|Drums marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

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

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 1375 min at the median, 1985 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Pipes|Drums 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 121 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Pipes|Drums publish per day?

1 on a median day, measured across 78 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.