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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. 122 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United KingdomEnglish#11,122 by volume

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.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.pipesdrums.com&size=5"
122
articles indexed
53
in the last 30 days
1
median per day
1
languages
1387 min
median crawl lag
08.06 → 05.09
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.

2026-06-08: 1 articles2026-06-11: 1 articles2026-06-12: 1 articles2026-06-13: 2 articles2026-06-14: 3 articles2026-06-16: 1 articles2026-06-17: 1 articles2026-06-18: 1 articles2026-06-19: 1 articles2026-06-20: 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 articles06-0806-2407-1007-2508-0808-2409-05

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 122 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 1210001: 00102: 00203: 00304: 00405: 00506: 00607: 00708: 00809: 00910: 01011: 01112: 01213: 01314: 01415: 01516: 01617: 01718: 01819: 01920: 02021: 02122: 02223: 023
Mon: 15MonTue: 22TueWed: 24WedThu: 18ThuFri: 15FriSat: 14SatSun: 13Sun

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish12199.2%

Latest articles

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

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
Kyle Shead wins 2026 CPA Bronze Medal
2026-08-31 00:00 UTC
Kyle Shead of Glasgow won the Competing Pipers' Association's Bronze Medal for Piobaireachd, held at the National Piping Centre's Otago Street branch.
Pipe band drumming legend Wilson Young
2026-08-31 00:00 UTC
Wilson Young, the legendary former Red Hackle leading drummer, World Solo Drumming Champion and highly influential adjudicator and educator, died in his nineties on Augus
William Lyons, 1940-2026
2026-08-30 00:00 UTC
William Lyons died following a short illness on August 28, 2026. Born on May 27, 1940, he learned to play the bagpipes as a boy with the Corbet Pipe Band, just outside Ba
Bonar wins the overall at Birnam in tie with Knichel
2026-08-30 00:00 UTC
Cameron Bonar of Surrey British Columbia, won the overall trophy on Piobaireachd preference after a tie with Zephan Knichel of Lynwood, Washington, in varied results at t
Craig Sutherland wins 2026 Captain John A. MacLellan MBE Medal
2026-08-29 00:00 UTC
Craig Sutherland, Vancouver, won the 2026 Captain John A. MacLellan MBE Memorial Medal at another packed annual black-tie Dinner & Recital Competition at the Caledonian H
Photies of Oban: images from the 2026 Argyllshire Gathering by Alister Sinclair
2026-08-28 00:00 UTC
pipes|drums' intrepid photographer Alister Sinclair was on the prowl on the second day of the Argyllshire Gathering through the town of Oban and at Mossfield Park, the tr
2026 Argyllshire Gathering Day 2: Duncan and Sinclair win A-Grade honours; B-Grade events: Frazer and Cameron; Jigs: Cal
2026-08-27 00:00 UTC
Results from the second day of competitions, all light music events held outdoors at a sunny and warm Mossfield Park
2026 Argyllshire Gathering Day 1: McKeown wins Gold Medal; Wilson victorious in Sr. Piob; Knichel takes Silver Medal; a
2026-08-26 00:00 UTC
Results from the first of the year's major Scottish solo piping gatherings
Opinion: It's past time for a united UK Solo Piping Association
2026-08-25 00:00 UTC
The UK has no unified standards for its solo piping competitions. After 200-odd years, it's high time that changed.
Video: Callum Beaumont drops the jaws at '26 Gillies Memorial Challenge Recital
2026-08-24 00:00 UTC
The 2026 Pipe-Major Alasdair Gillies Memorial Challenge Recital was another spectacular night of jaw-dropping musical creativity and technical brilliance by five of the w
Building Leaders Part 1: Why pipe bands need 'possibilitarian' leaders
2026-08-23 00:00 UTC
As in the job world, pipe band members often quit because of management. Modern-day competitive pipe bands need to run as much like a business as a hobby. Yet, pipe band

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.

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

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 1387 min at the median, 2027 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 122 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.