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Polygon API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Polygon publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 2,568 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United StatesEnglish#2,843 by volume

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

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

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

entertainment 57%

Call the API

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

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.polygon.com&size=5"
2,568
articles indexed
1,330
in the last 30 days
43
median per day
1
languages
3 min
median crawl lag
24.08 → 22.10
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 60 days. The busiest hour is 16:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-24: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-25: 53 articles2026-08-26: 53 articles2026-08-27: 48 articles2026-08-28: 37 articles2026-08-29: 32 articles2026-08-30: 41 articles2026-08-31: 48 articles2026-09-01: 48 articles2026-09-02: 48 articles2026-09-03: 43 articles2026-09-04: 43 articles2026-09-05: 35 articles2026-09-06: 32 articles2026-09-07: 26 articles2026-09-08: 45 articles2026-09-09: 47 articles2026-09-10: 54 articles2026-09-11: 63 articles2026-09-12: 63 articles2026-09-13: 42 articles2026-09-14: 39 articles2026-09-15: 49 articles2026-09-16: 39 articles2026-09-17: 54 articles2026-09-18: 41 articles2026-09-19: 25 articles2026-09-20: 45 articles2026-09-21: 41 articles2026-09-22: 45 articles2026-09-23: 41 articles2026-09-24: 68 articles2026-09-25: 45 articles2026-09-26: 28 articles2026-09-27: 34 articles2026-09-28: 51 articles2026-09-29: 54 articles2026-09-30: 42 articles2026-10-01: 56 articles2026-10-02: 39 articles2026-10-03: 33 articles2026-10-04: 33 articles2026-10-05: 49 articles2026-10-06: 51 articles2026-10-07: 40 articles2026-10-08: 47 articles2026-10-09: 54 articles2026-10-10: 37 articles2026-10-11: 33 articles2026-10-12: 47 articles2026-10-13: 47 articles2026-10-14: 41 articles2026-10-15: 46 articles2026-10-16: 35 articles2026-10-17: 30 articles2026-10-18: 36 articles2026-10-19: 30 articles2026-10-20: 39 articles2026-10-21: 49 articles2026-10-22: 50 articles09-0309-1309-2310-0310-1310-22

The 1 hatched days are gaps in the upstream news archive, not quiet days at Polygon: 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.polygon.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Polygon actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 2,568 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 400001: 660102: 380203: 310304: 1030405: 220506: 50607: 290708: 1010809: 690910: 781011: 771112: 941213: 1601314: 2461415: 2691516: 2711617: 2361718: 1691819: 1261920: 1402021: 842122: 652223: 4923
Mon: 335MonTue: 431TueWed: 400WedThu: 466ThuFri: 357FriSat: 283SatSun: 296Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 58% of their articles.

Languages

The site identifies itself under Polygon, Polygon.com — separate editions publishing under one domain.

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish2,568100.0%

Latest articles

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

Half-Life 3 Rumors Reignite After Valve Employee Lets Codename Slip
2026-10-22 21:16 UTC
A Valve employee just casually mentioned Half-Life 3's rumored codename HLX in public, reigniting rumors that the shooter is returning.
'Clayface' Officially Sets Up Another Iconic Batman Villain in the DC Universe
2026-10-22 21:00 UTC
Clayface is filled with some very noticible Easter eggs about the Joker
Everything We Know About the PS6, Sony’s Next-Gen Console
2026-10-22 20:12 UTC
A rundown of everything announced, reported, leaked, and rumored about PlayStation 6, including release date, price, and specs
Everything We Know About Project Helix, the Next Xbox
2026-10-22 20:12 UTC
A rundown of everything announced, reported, leaked, and rumored about the next-gen Xbox, including, release date, price, and specs
'Avatar: Seven Havens' Producers Provide a Suspicious Answer About the Anomaly
2026-10-22 20:01 UTC
Avatar: Seven Havens producers address whether the Anomaly’s mysterious diamond-shaped entity is connected to Vaatu.
Sid Meier's Civilization games: the oral history
2026-10-22 20:00 UTC
From MS-DOS Civilization to 35 years and Civ 7's upcoming Earthrise expansion, Meier and Firaxis creatives walk up us through gaming history.
BioWare Deserved Better
2026-10-22 19:29 UTC · entertainment
Jenna Ortega's New Sci-Fi Movie Turns Compelling AI Drama Into One Big Joke
2026-10-22 19:00 UTC
Klara and the Sun is based on Kazuo Ishiguro's novel. Director Taika Waititi strips away its compelling ideas with jokes.
You Can Try World of Warcraft: Forever for Free, but There’s a Catch
2026-10-22 18:46 UTC
You don't need a WoW subscription to try World of Warcraft: Forever for free. Check the stress test schedule and prepare for crowded servers.
Forgotten Pokémon Card Collection Goes for $2 Million
2026-10-22 17:55 UTC · pokémon trading card game · Elijah Gonzalez
A British retiree sold their forgotten Pokémon card collection for roughly $2 million at auction.
Blood of Dawnwalker’s Massive Update Is Finally Here and the Full List of Changes Is Wild
2026-10-22 17:43 UTC · news · Willa Rowe
Blood of Dawnwalker's long-awaited update 1.1 is finally out, bringing huge changes to the vampire RPG
'The Walking Dead' Star’s Resident Evil Fan Film Sets a Surprising Record
2026-10-22 17:35 UTC · movies · Sam Hill
Chandler Riggs adapted one of Resident Evil's most memorable sequences, and he's open to making a feature-length version.
'Marvel’s Wolverine' Soars on PS5 Sales Charts Despite Negative Buzz
2026-10-22 17:08 UTC · gaming · Elijah Gonzalez
Despite mixed reviews, 'Marvel's Wolverine' was September's best-selling game in the U.S.
Can We Finally Agree That Dragon Age: The Veilguard Was Actually Terrific?
2026-10-22 17:00 UTC · opinion · Ari Notis
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is now officially the final game from BioWare. Despite criticisms, DA:TV is an excellent sendoff for a totemic studio.
Video Game Industry Responds to BioWare Shutting Down
2026-10-22 16:49 UTC · news · Patricia Hernandez
The studio, which was working on a new Mass Effect game, had a profound impact on major RPGs like The Witcher and The Outer Worlds
Award-Winning Sci-Fi Author Reveals Role on Canceled Mass Effect
2026-10-22 16:46 UTC · gaming · Ashely Claudino
Authors working on Mass Effect 5 have revealed themselves, and it seems BioWare had a team of acclaimed sci-fi writers at their disposal.

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.polygon.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.polygon.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 Polygon marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

0%
dates from JSON-LD
32%
articles with a byline
58%
articles with sections
—
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 3 min at the median, 45 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Polygon 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 2,568 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Polygon publish per day?

43 on a median day, measured across 60 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.