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Rough Draft Atlanta API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Rough Draft Atlanta publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 767 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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

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

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

politics 30%society 30%entertainment 20%

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Rough Draft Atlanta headlines come back as JSON.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=roughdraftatlanta.com&size=5"
767
articles indexed
357
in the last 30 days
13
median per day
1
languages
11 min
median crawl lag
25.08 → 21.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 28 days. The busiest hour is 12:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-25: 12 articles2026-08-26: 15 articles2026-08-27: 15 articles2026-08-28: 18 articles2026-08-29: 13 articles2026-08-30: 8 articles2026-08-31: 11 articles2026-09-01: 14 articles2026-09-02: 24 articles2026-09-03: 16 articles2026-09-04: 12 articles2026-09-05: 7 articles2026-09-06: 8 articles2026-09-07: 9 articles2026-09-08: 17 articles2026-09-09: 17 articles2026-09-10: 19 articles2026-09-11: 16 articles2026-09-12: 6 articles2026-09-13: 9 articles2026-09-14: 8 articles2026-09-15: 18 articles2026-09-16: 17 articles2026-09-17: 16 articles2026-09-18: 11 articles2026-09-19: 5 articles2026-09-20: 10 articles2026-09-21: 6 articles08-2508-2909-0209-0609-1009-1409-1809-21
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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=roughdraftatlanta.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Rough Draft Atlanta actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 767 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 60001: 50102: 20203: 30304: 00405: 10506: 00607: 10708: 00809: 10910: 291011: 131112: 511213: 301314: 391415: 411516: 281617: 301718: 211819: 221920: 122021: 92122: 112223: 223
Mon: 34MonTue: 61TueWed: 73WedThu: 66ThuFri: 57FriSat: 31SatSun: 35Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 46% of their articles.

SectionArticles
entertainment164
politics164
society164

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish35746.5%

Latest articles

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

Democrats and Republicans find common ground in affordable housing debate: Curb corporate landlords
2026-09-21 17:41 UTC
It’s not often these days that candidates from across the political spectrum find common ground. But on the subject of how to create more affordable homes, both Democrats
Outlet Project aims to reduce mental health stigma with new event series
2026-09-21 17:27 UTC
The Atlanta-based non-profit The Outlet Project is set to launch its new mental health event series, Healing Out Loud, on September 19 to help reduce stigma through commu
🏢 Historic apartments sold
2026-09-21 12:30 UTC
Braves clinch, Falcons crash Monday, Sept. 21 — Canvas Companies has purchased the historic North Highridge Apartments on North Highland Ave. in Poncey-Highland, and the
🐿️ Naming white squirrels
2026-09-21 11:11 UTC · politics
Two young boys die in DeKalb County shooting
2026-09-21 01:54 UTC
Two boys were killed and two women were wounded in a shooting at a Stone Mountain apartment complex on Sunday. The post Two young boys die in DeKalb County shooting appea
Exclusive: Canvas Companies acquires century-old North Highridge Apartments in Poncey-Highland
2026-09-21 00:33 UTC
A locally-owned real estate firm, Canvas Companies, has acquired the historic North Highridge Apartments in Atlanta's Poncey-Highland neighborhood with plans to maintain
Lawmakers mull cybersecurity concerns as they prepare for overhaul of Georgia’s voting system
2026-09-20 17:15 UTC
Georgia seems poised to switch to a hand-marked paper ballot system for the 2028 election, but researchers and cybersecurity experts say there is a lot more to consider t
Ponce City Market celebrates 100 years of the historic Sears building
2026-09-20 15:59 UTC
Jamestown has announced Ponce 100, a series of community events and installations scheduled throughout September to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the historic buildi
Sandy Springs career expo is set for Sept. 29 at City Springs
2026-09-20 12:00 UTC
The Community Assistance Center is scheduled to host the Sandy Springs Connects! Career Expo on September 29 at City Springs to facilitate face-to-face networking between
🥁 The critter beat
2026-09-20 11:59 UTC · politics
DeKalb property tax office will offer extended hours starting Sept. 21
2026-09-20 10:00 UTC
DeKalb County Tax Commissioner Nicole Golden announced that walk-in taxpayers will use the UGA Extension entrance from September 17 to 30 and will benefit from extended h
Shaky Knees festival evacuated as strong storms move through Atlanta
2026-09-20 01:14 UTC
Severe weather forced the evacuation of thousands of people from the Shaky Knees music festival at Piedmont Park on Saturday night. The evacuation just before 7 p.m. caus
Theatrical Outfit launches 50th anniversary season with ‘Fences’
2026-09-19 16:16 UTC
Theatrical Outfit (TO) has launched its 50th anniverary season with a staging of August Wilson’s “Fences,” onstage now through Oct. 4. Joining TO for the production are D
Three Georgia counties flagged by Trump administration for using non-English election materials
2026-09-19 15:01 UTC
At least three Georgia counties were listed on an internal memo of jurisdictions across the country that offer election materials in languages other than English, accordi
AI raising questions about who writes the rules in Fulton County
2026-09-19 14:00 UTC
Some worry artificial intelligence could one day rule humanity. Robots have not taken over yet, but AI may be helping with a core function of democracy in Georgia’s large
📖 Cobb book drama
2026-09-19 13:02 UTC
Redevelopment tax breaks Saturday, Sept. 19 – President Donald Trump said he was banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House over their coverage of him. The mo
The Atlanta News Quiz for September 19
2026-09-19 11:30 UTC · politics
🍻 Tucktoberfest begins
2026-09-18 17:52 UTC
Happy Tucktoberfest Friday, Sept. 18 — Hello again! Autumn is just around the corner (the final day of summer is Sept. 21), and with the cooler weather comes a wealth of

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=roughdraftatlanta.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=roughdraftatlanta.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 Rough Draft Atlanta 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
46%
articles with sections
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average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 11 min at the median, 2640 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Rough Draft Atlanta 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 767 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Rough Draft Atlanta publish per day?

13 on a median day, measured across 28 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.