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Runner's World API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Runner's World publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 52 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United StatesEnglish#15,234 by volume

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

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

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

sport 100%

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Runner's World headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.runnersworld.com&size=5"
52
articles indexed
33
in the last 30 days
7
median per day
1
languages
5 min
median crawl lag
25.08 → 29.08
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 5 days. The busiest hour is 13:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-25: 5 articles2026-08-26: 4 articles2026-08-27: 9 articles2026-08-28: 7 articles2026-08-29: 8 articles08-2508-2608-2708-2808-29
bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=www.runnersworld.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Runner's World actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 52 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 00001: 00102: 00203: 00304: 00405: 00506: 00607: 00708: 00809: 00910: 01011: 01112: 61213: 91314: 11415: 21516: 11617: 01718: 31819: 21920: 62021: 02122: 22223: 123
Mon: 0MonTue: 5TueWed: 4WedThu: 9ThuFri: 7FriSat: 8SatSun: 0Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 100% of their articles.

SectionArticles
sport33

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish3363.5%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent Runner's World articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

Results from 2026 UTMB
2026-08-29 13:56 UTC · sport
How to Watch the 2026 Sydney Marathon
2026-08-27 20:49 UTC · sport

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.runnersworld.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=www.runnersworld.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 Runner's World 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
100%
articles with sections
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 5 min at the median, 2420 minutes at the 90th percentile.

FAQ

Does Runner's World 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 52 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Runner's World publish per day?

7 on a median day, measured across 5 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.