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

United StatesEnglish#9,429 by volume

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.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=roughdraftatlanta.com&size=5"
173
articles indexed
173
in the last 30 days
13
median per day
1
languages
10 min
median crawl lag
25.08 → 06.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 13 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 articles08-2508-2708-2908-3109-0209-0409-06
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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 173 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 20001: 20102: 10203: 20304: 00405: 00506: 00607: 10708: 00809: 10910: 131011: 81112: 241213: 181314: 191415: 191516: 141617: 81718: 101819: 91920: 72021: 52122: 82223: 223
Mon: 11MonTue: 26TueWed: 39WedThu: 31ThuFri: 30FriSat: 20SatSun: 16Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 31% of their articles.

SectionArticles
entertainment53
politics53
society53

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish173100.0%

Latest articles

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

Agnes Scott to launch yearlong symposium on living well with AI
2026-09-06 14:00 UTC
Agnes Scott College will launch a yearlong symposium titled "Living Well with AI" this fall to explore how artificial intelligence impacts human agency, well-being, and p
☕ Sunday slowdown
2026-09-06 13:10 UTC
Slow down, it’s Sunday Sunday, Sept. 6 — Morning! It’s Beth McKibben, editor-in-chief and senior dining editor of Rough Draft Atlanta, here with our first Sunday issue of
Downed trees, power outages reported in metro Atlanta after strong storms
2026-09-06 13:06 UTC
Severe weather throughout the area has downed trees and taken out the power in metro Atlanta. The National Weather Service issued several severe thunderstorm warnings thr
Georgia marks second anniversary of Apalachee High School shooting
2026-09-06 01:44 UTC
Governor Brian Kemp joined families and community members on Thursday to mark the second anniversary of the Apalachee High School shooting, even as advocates called for m
City of Atlanta will mark Microsoft land donation with community event on Sept. 12
2026-09-05 16:05 UTC
The City of Atlanta and Atlanta Urban Development Corporation (AUD) will host a community celebration on Saturday, Sept.12, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Microsoft’s donated
Fox Theatre opens new backstage content studio, plans for 2029 centennial
2026-09-05 14:20 UTC
The historic Fox Theatre has opened a dedicated content studio space to produce original interviews, podcasts, videos, and media interviews with visiting artists. Accordi
Gas South Arena begins $175M renovation project, including new parking deck
2026-09-05 13:27 UTC
Gas South Arena hosted a groundbreaking event on Sept. 3 to kick off a $175 million investment in the arena and the surrounding Gas South District campus in Duluth. The p
⚖️ Lindsay Clancy mistrial
2026-09-05 13:15 UTC
📌 A quick programming note: Rough Draft Sunday debuts tomorrow morning. Look for it in your inbox at 8 a.m. Oil price spike Saturday, Sept. 5 —The price of diesel reached
The Atlanta News Quiz for September 5
2026-09-05 11:00 UTC
It’s time to test your knowledge with this week’s Atlanta News Quiz! Click here to play, and please let us know how you do by sharing on Instagram, Facebook, or X @RoughD
Bon Ton closing at the end of September after nearly a decade in Midtown
2026-09-04 21:00 UTC
Viet-Cajun restaurant Bon Ton will close on Sept. 30 after nearly a decade on Myrtle Street in Midtown. And The Waiting Room, the vibey cocktail lounge above Bon Ton, clo
🏫 Public Safety building opens
2026-09-04 18:17 UTC
Help us grow our newsletter! Do you know a friend or neighbor who would enjoy our weekly newsletter on Norcross? Please have them subscribe here. 👮 Norcross celebrates mi
🥎 Softball comes to Tucker
2026-09-04 18:10 UTC
Happy Labor Day weekend! Friday, September 4 — Hi all! Katie here, with some more fun Tucker news for y’all. We’ve got a luxuriously long weekend ahead of us, and I’m loo
✨ Regina Taylor’s ‘Exhibit’
2026-09-04 16:14 UTC
Venice, meet Telluride Friday, Sept. 3 — Happy Friday, everyone! Two of the biggest film festivals of the awards circuit kicked off this week – the Venice International F
APD investigating homicides in Buckhead and Downtown
2026-09-04 15:40 UTC
The Atlanta Police Department Homicide Unit is investigating two separate homicides that occurred in Buckhead and in Downtown Atlanta. Just after 1:30 a.m. this morning,
🚶🏽 Where the sidewalk ends
2026-09-04 14:40 UTC
Cheers to year one Friday, Sep. 4 — It’s Rough Draft Sandy Springs’ one-year anniversary! Thanks to everyone who has been with us from the start and those who have joined
The Lovett School breaks bround on new campus hub, Rita Anne Rollins Hall
2026-09-04 14:26 UTC
The Lovett School has broken ground for Rita Anne Rollins Hall, a new state-of-the-art campus hub for worship, dining, the arts, and student support. The ceremony, held o
🍻 Holiday weekend ahoy!
2026-09-04 12:30 UTC
Bobby Dodd thriller Friday, Sept. 4 — Colorado blocked a last-second field goal by Georgia Tech to beat the Yellow Jackets 14-13 in last night’s season opener at The Flat

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:

bash
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
31%
articles with sections
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 10 min at the median, 1516 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 173 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 13 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.