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Search Engine Journal API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Search Engine Journal publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 440 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United StatesEnglish#9,725 by volume

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

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

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Search Engine Journal headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.searchenginejournal.com&size=5"
440
articles indexed
152
in the last 30 days
6
median per day
1
languages
154 min
median crawl lag
24.06 → 22.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 80 days. The busiest hour is 12:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-06-24: 9 articles2026-06-25: 9 articles2026-06-26: 6 articles2026-06-27: 1 articles2026-06-28: 2 articles2026-06-29: 5 articles2026-06-30: 8 articles2026-07-01: 11 articles2026-07-02: 8 articles2026-07-03: 3 articles2026-07-04: 1 articles2026-07-05: 2 articles2026-07-06: 4 articles2026-07-07: 8 articles2026-07-08: 9 articles2026-07-09: 5 articles2026-07-10: 6 articles2026-07-11: 1 articles2026-07-12: 1 articles2026-07-13: 6 articles2026-07-14: 5 articles2026-07-15: 7 articles2026-07-16: 7 articles2026-07-17: 5 articles2026-07-18: 3 articles2026-07-19: 2 articles2026-07-20: 7 articles2026-07-21: 9 articles2026-07-22: 6 articles2026-07-23: 8 articles2026-07-24: 3 articles2026-07-25: 4 articles2026-07-26: 1 articles2026-07-27: 6 articles2026-07-28: 8 articles2026-07-29: 12 articles2026-07-30: 5 articles2026-07-31: 3 articles2026-08-01: 1 articles2026-08-03: 11 articles2026-08-04: 4 articles2026-08-05: 8 articles2026-08-06: 1 articles2026-08-13: 8 articles2026-08-14: 6 articles2026-08-15: 2 articles2026-08-17: 7 articles2026-08-18: 12 articles2026-08-19: 9 articles2026-08-20: 6 articles2026-08-21: 4 articles2026-08-22: 1 articles2026-08-24: 5 articles2026-08-25: 9 articles2026-08-26: 6 articles2026-08-27: 6 articles2026-08-28: 6 articles2026-08-29: 1 articles2026-08-30: 2 articles2026-08-31: 10 articles2026-09-01: 5 articles2026-09-02: 8 articles2026-09-03: 7 articles2026-09-04: 4 articles2026-09-05: 1 articles2026-09-07: 2 articles2026-09-08: 6 articles2026-09-09: 10 articles2026-09-10: 12 articles2026-09-11: 5 articles2026-09-12: 1 articles2026-09-13: 2 articles2026-09-14: 3 articles2026-09-15: 8 articles2026-09-16: 8 articles2026-09-17: 7 articles2026-09-18: 8 articles2026-09-19: 1 articles2026-09-21: 8 articles2026-09-22: 1 articles06-2407-0707-2008-0308-2409-0709-2109-22
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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=www.searchenginejournal.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Search Engine Journal actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 440 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 70001: 10102: 40203: 00304: 10405: 60506: 00607: 140708: 60809: 310910: 251011: 391112: 681213: 291314: 511415: 81516: 121617: 241718: 151819: 461920: 112021: 172122: 132223: 1023
Mon: 74MonTue: 83TueWed: 103WedThu: 89ThuFri: 59FriSat: 18SatSun: 12Sun

Sections

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

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish43899.5%

Latest articles

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

Google Analytics Adds Include Filters For Hostnames
2026-09-22 08:06 UTC · Analytics & Data · Matt G Southern
Google Analytics supports Include data filters for hostnames, so a property can keep event data from approved domains instead of excluding spam one by one.
Job Boards Say Google Indexing API Requests Get No Response
2026-09-21 20:30 UTC · News · Matt G Southern
Job site operators say Google Indexing API approval requests go unanswered for months. Google's docs recommend the API but don't state a review timeframe.
International SEO For Publishers: How To Succeed Across Borders
2026-09-21 19:00 UTC · International Search · Barry Adams
Many publishers underestimate the effort it requires to become truly successful in different countries and languages.
How To Find The Sources Shaping AI Answers In Your Industry
2026-09-21 18:12 UTC · AI Search · Heather Campbell
Map the sources shaping AI answers in your industry. Trendos explains how to audit citations, find competitor gaps, and prioritize content and outreach work.
Shopify CEO Warns AI 'Slop Grenades' Shift Work To Coworkers
2026-09-21 15:14 UTC · AI Search · Matt G Southern
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke says unreviewed AI output is landing on coworkers. Freelance marketplace data shows demand for AI cleanup work rising elsewhere too.
Google Lighthouse Adds Audit For AI Agent Resource Discovery
2026-09-21 14:32 UTC · News · Matt G Southern
Lighthouse 13.5 adds an audit for Agentic Resource Discovery, a proposed spec for how AI agents find tools. It's due in Chrome DevTools and PageSpeed Insights.
Agentic Commerce Is Not The Next Voice Shopping, But It Is Still Unproven
2026-09-21 14:30 UTC · AI Search · Slobodan Manic
Voice shopping changed the keyboard. Agentic commerce removes the buyer from the room, and your storefront is already in by default.
How To Build Local Pages AI Systems Can Find And Trust
2026-09-21 12:00 UTC · AI Search · Loren Baker
Whitespark's Darren Shaw and Duda's Russ Jeffery on why local AI visibility starts with crawler access, accurate data, and pages an LLM can read.
Research Shows Google AI Mode Sends Less Clicks & Is A Poor User Experience
2026-09-21 11:47 UTC · AI Search · Roger Montti
Is Google lying about AI Search? A study tracking over 1,000 users found Google sends less clicks and people dislike it.
Google AI Payment Pilot, Search Profiles At 10,000 – SEO Pulse
2026-09-19 12:30 UTC · SEO · Matt G Southern
Google is testing payments for content contributing to AI answers, Mueller says AI position data is hard to report, and Cloudflare splits training from search.
Google Discover Test Adds Topic Overviews, Starting With Videos
2026-09-18 22:24 UTC · News · Matt G Southern
Google is testing a "Dive deeper" button in Discover that opens a short topic overview with links to related stories. The test starts with videos, Google says.
Checking A Page Is Part Of A Retrieval Pipeline For AI
2026-09-18 19:00 UTC · AI Search · Chris Green
Without fixed tools to understand indexing/retrieval (Like GSC) what can we do instead.
Google Adds Local Businesses To EEA Search Result Units
2026-09-18 17:51 UTC · International Search · Matt G Southern
Google updated its Search documentation to add local business queries to the two result units rolled out in the EEA for directories and direct providers.
Your Brand Needs An AI Accountability Document, A School District Beat Big Tech To It
2026-09-18 17:30 UTC · AI Search · Greg Jarboe
Turn AI guardrails into search assets with a school district's template for indexable policies, named reviewers, and clear rules on model training.
Cloudflare Will Write Your Robots.txt, And It Has A Point
2026-09-18 14:30 UTC · AI Search · Slobodan Manic
Cloudflare's Bot Preference Sync writes your robots.txt for you, by default, from three settings that cannot express a per-crawler policy.
State Of Search 2027: What To Stop, Measure & Fund
2026-09-18 14:15 UTC · AI Search · Katie Morton
New Search Engine Journal research shows how marketers are responding as traffic declines, AI search grows, and familiar measures lose meaning.
Google's AI Payment Pilot Vs. Cloudflare & Microsoft Models
2026-09-18 12:00 UTC · AI Search · Matt G Southern
Google's AI contribution pilot, Cloudflare's Pay Per Crawl and Pay Per Use, and Microsoft's marketplace differ on compensation, owner control, and reporting.
Google Responds To Cross-Domain Canonical De-Indexing Report
2026-09-18 11:39 UTC · News · Roger Montti
Google's John Mueller responds to a strange de-indexing case where an unrelated website appeared to replace a site's pages in search.

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.searchenginejournal.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.searchenginejournal.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 Search Engine Journal marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

98%
dates from JSON-LD
100%
articles with a byline
100%
articles with sections
241 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 154 min at the median, 482 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Search Engine Journal 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 440 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Search Engine Journal publish per day?

6 on a median day, measured across 80 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.