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Pleine Vie API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Pleine Vie publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 3,990 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

FranceFrench#1,002 by volume

Four ways to pull pleinevie.fr

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

JSON Search this publisher

Every article we hold from pleinevie.fr, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

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

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

health 40%agrifood 14%economy 14%society 14%

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Pleine Vie headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.pleinevie.fr&size=5"
3,990
articles indexed
1,591
in the last 30 days
43
median per day
1
languages
66 min
median crawl lag
09.06 → 07.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 90 days. The busiest hour is 05:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-06-10: 34 articles2026-06-11: 29 articles2026-06-12: 30 articles2026-06-13: 23 articles2026-06-14: 25 articles2026-06-15: 45 articles2026-06-16: 45 articles2026-06-17: 56 articles2026-06-18: 56 articles2026-06-19: 60 articles2026-06-20: 35 articles2026-06-21: 29 articles2026-06-22: 66 articles2026-06-23: 69 articles2026-06-24: 49 articles2026-06-25: 57 articles2026-06-26: 52 articles2026-06-27: 22 articles2026-06-28: 22 articles2026-06-29: 55 articles2026-06-30: 54 articles2026-07-01: 58 articles2026-07-02: 53 articles2026-07-03: 33 articles2026-07-04: 31 articles2026-07-05: 35 articles2026-07-06: 31 articles2026-07-07: 27 articles2026-07-08: 43 articles2026-07-09: 41 articles2026-07-10: 43 articles2026-07-11: 22 articles2026-07-12: 23 articles2026-07-13: 40 articles2026-07-14: 25 articles2026-07-15: 41 articles2026-07-16: 36 articles2026-07-17: 41 articles2026-07-18: 31 articles2026-07-19: 28 articles2026-07-20: 40 articles2026-07-21: 31 articles2026-07-22: 29 articles2026-07-23: 31 articles2026-07-24: 35 articles2026-07-25: 26 articles2026-07-26: 29 articles2026-07-27: 31 articles2026-07-28: 29 articles2026-07-29: 57 articles2026-07-30: 22 articles2026-07-31: 22 articles2026-08-01: 39 articles2026-08-02: 30 articles2026-08-03: 54 articles2026-08-04: 49 articles2026-08-05: 57 articles2026-08-06: 49 articles2026-08-07: 53 articles2026-08-08: 31 articles2026-08-09: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-10: 49 articles2026-08-11: 49 articles2026-08-12: 49 articles2026-08-13: 52 articles2026-08-14: 47 articles2026-08-15: 30 articles2026-08-16: 28 articles2026-08-17: 48 articles2026-08-18: 47 articles2026-08-19: 48 articles2026-08-20: 48 articles2026-08-21: 44 articles2026-08-22: 24 articles2026-08-23: 25 articles2026-08-24: 31 articles2026-08-25: 30 articles2026-08-26: 60 articles2026-08-27: 66 articles2026-08-28: 66 articles2026-08-29: 75 articles2026-08-30: 74 articles2026-08-31: 60 articles2026-09-01: 63 articles2026-09-02: 64 articles2026-09-03: 90 articles2026-09-04: 92 articles2026-09-05: 79 articles2026-09-06: 77 articles2026-09-07: 45 articles06-1006-2507-1007-2508-2409-07

The 1 hatched days are gaps in the upstream news archive, not quiet days at Pleine Vie: the whole corpus dips on those dates. They are excluded from the median above.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=www.pleinevie.fr&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Pleine Vie actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 3,990 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 10001: 20102: 20203: 1340304: 2960405: 1,0580506: 1690607: 1210708: 800809: 3300910: 1981011: 1081112: 2801213: 1221314: 1541415: 2261516: 1711617: 2591718: 481819: 2081920: 82021: 112122: 22223: 223
Mon: 595MonTue: 576TueWed: 645WedThu: 630ThuFri: 618FriSat: 468SatSun: 458Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 88% of their articles.

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
frFrench3,990100.0%

Latest articles

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

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=www.pleinevie.fr&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=www.pleinevie.fr&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 Pleine Vie marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

83%
dates from JSON-LD
83%
articles with a byline
88%
articles with sections
141 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 66 min at the median, 454 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Pleine Vie 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 3,990 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Pleine Vie publish per day?

43 on a median day, measured across 90 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.