РИА Новости API, RSS and sitemap
Every article РИА Новости publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 48,283 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.
RussiaRussian#39 by volume
Four ways to pull ria.ru
All four are ours, all four are live, and none of them needs a key.
JSON Search this publisher
Every article we hold from ria.ru, newest first. Add q= to search inside.
curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=ria.ru&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=ria.ru&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=ria.ru&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=ria.ru&size=20&fields=title,url,published_at,lang"open it →Call the API
A live request. Paste it into a terminal and РИА Новости headlines come back as JSON.
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=ria.ru,crimea.ria.ru&size=5"This page covers 2 hosts of ria.ru as one publisher: ria.ru, crimea.ria.ru. The API accepts them comma-separated in host.
Publishing volume
Articles per day over the last 84 days. The busiest hour is 09:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=ria.ru,crimea.ria.ru&top=10"Publishing rhythm
When РИА Новости actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 48,283 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.
Sections
Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 100% of their articles.
| Section | Articles | |
|---|---|---|
Россия | 17,887 | |
В мире | 12,887 | |
Новости | 6,720 | |
Специальная военная операция на Украине | 6,189 | |
Происшествия | 5,522 | |
Вооруженные силы Украины | 4,830 | |
Украина | 4,592 | |
США | 4,424 | |
Спорт | 3,753 | |
Владимир Путин | 3,440 | |
Общество | 3,320 | |
Москва | 3,239 | |
Безопасность | 2,969 | |
Футбол | 2,800 |
Languages
The site identifies itself under РИА Новости, РИА Новости Крым, РИА Новости Спорт, –†–Ė–Ź –Ě–Ĺ–≤–Ĺ—Ā—Ā–Ł — separate editions publishing under one domain.
| Code | Language | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
ru | Russian | 48,283 | 100.0% |
Latest articles
The 18 most recent РИА Новости 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.
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=ria.ru,crimea.ria.ru&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:
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=ria.ru,crimea.ria.ru&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 РИА Новости marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.
Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 570 min at the median, 1084 minutes at the 90th percentile.
Similar publishers
Comparable outlets in the same language. Those without a page here yet link straight to their slice of the API.
FAQ
Does РИА Новости 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 48,283 of
their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.
How many articles does РИА Новости publish per day?
766 on a median day, measured across 84 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.
