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Shafaqna English | International Shia News & Fatwas API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Shafaqna English | International Shia News & Fatwas publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 1,996 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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

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

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Shafaqna English | International Shia News & Fatwas headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=en.shafaqna.com&size=5"
1,996
articles indexed
0
in the last 30 days
43
median per day
1
languages
880 min
median crawl lag
10.06 → 06.08
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 48 days. The busiest hour is 00:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-06-10: 41 articles2026-06-11: 29 articles2026-06-12: 31 articles2026-06-18: 42 articles2026-06-19: 53 articles2026-06-20: 42 articles2026-06-23: 34 articles2026-06-24: 45 articles2026-06-25: 44 articles2026-06-26: 55 articles2026-06-27: 50 articles2026-06-28: 51 articles2026-06-29: 38 articles2026-06-30: 39 articles2026-07-01: 39 articles2026-07-02: 43 articles2026-07-03: 44 articles2026-07-04: 54 articles2026-07-07: 27 articles2026-07-08: 58 articles2026-07-09: 48 articles2026-07-10: 51 articles2026-07-11: 52 articles2026-07-12: 42 articles2026-07-13: 51 articles2026-07-14: 48 articles2026-07-15: 48 articles2026-07-16: 43 articles2026-07-17: 38 articles2026-07-18: 40 articles2026-07-19: 43 articles2026-07-20: 43 articles2026-07-21: 1 articles2026-07-23: 36 articles2026-07-24: 48 articles2026-07-25: 40 articles2026-07-26: 39 articles2026-07-27: 14 articles2026-07-28: 28 articles2026-07-29: 53 articles2026-07-30: 40 articles2026-07-31: 49 articles2026-08-01: 47 articles2026-08-02: 40 articles2026-08-03: 49 articles2026-08-04: 43 articles2026-08-05: 39 articles2026-08-06: 24 articles06-1006-2507-0307-1307-2107-3008-06
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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=en.shafaqna.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Shafaqna English | International Shia News & Fatwas actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 1,996 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 1,9960001: 00102: 00203: 00304: 00405: 00506: 00607: 00708: 00809: 00910: 01011: 01112: 01213: 01314: 01415: 01516: 01617: 01718: 01819: 01920: 02021: 02122: 02223: 023
Mon: 195MonTue: 220TueWed: 323WedThu: 349ThuFri: 369FriSat: 325SatSun: 215Sun

Sections

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

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish1,996100.0%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent Shafaqna English | International Shia News & Fatwas articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

FIFA stands by Infantino again
2026-08-06 00:00 UTC · Featured 1 · Asadian
Shafaqna English- FIFA apologized to its member federations on Wednesday(5 Aug 2026) over mistakes in a withdrawn proposal to market World Cup commercial rights. At the s
Salmonella outbreak linked to Mexican peppers
2026-08-06 00:00 UTC · All News · Asadian
Shafaqna English- American public health officials are looking into a Salmonella outbreak that appears to stem from Mexican jalapeno peppers. So far, 345 people in 27 sta
Meta: Our AI hacked firm
2026-08-06 00:00 UTC · All News · Asadian
Shafaqna English- Meta revealed on Wednesday(5 Aug 2026) that during cybersecurity testing, one of its AI models successfully breached another company’s defenses. This ha
Google's AI lag sparks concern
2026-08-06 00:00 UTC · All News · Asadian
Shafaqna English- Alphabet, the owner of Google, announced a significant shake-up in its AI division on Wednesday(5 Aug 2026). The overhaul includes AI chief Demis Hassab
Asian shares pause after AI surge
2026-08-06 00:00 UTC · All News · Asadian
Shafaqna English- Thursday(6 Aug 2026) saw Asian stocks taking a momentary pause for consolidation, coming off a powerful AI-inspired rally that had lifted regional indic
Cyberattacks on Wall Street
2026-08-06 00:00 UTC · All News · Asadian
Shafaqna English- Two sources close to the matter have revealed that hackers have executed a string of complex cyber intrusions against some of Wall Street’s largest fina
Yen struggles to hold onto gains
2026-08-06 00:00 UTC · All News · Asadian
Shafaqna English- Thursday’s(6 Aug 2026) trading session saw a lackluster performance across currency markets, characterized by the yen’s ongoing struggle to preserve its
Gold on an upward trend
2026-08-06 00:00 UTC · All News · Asadian
Shafaqna English- Gold prices extended their winning streak for a fourth consecutive session on Thursday(6 Aug 2026), reaching their highest level in seven weeks. The pre
Study maps ‘brain rot’ path to depression
2026-08-06 00:00 UTC · Featured · Parniani
Shafaqna English- A new study has found that excessive consumption of short-form social media content does not directly cause depression but instead triggers a chain of p
[Shafaqna exclusive] 9 Geopolitical achievements of Arbaeen March
2026-08-06 00:00 UTC · All News · Leila Yazdani
Shafaqna English | by Leila Yazdani*: This year’s Arbaeen pilgrimage, which attracted millions of Muslim pilgrims globally to Karbala, had a notably different tone. It oc
Trump helicopter near miss
2026-08-06 00:00 UTC · All News · Asadian
Shafaqna English- The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed on Tuesday(4 Aug 2026) that a military helicopter transporting President Donald Trump momentarily came wit
New tax on cooking gas in India
2026-08-06 00:00 UTC · All News · Asadian
Shafaqna English- India is reportedly planning to impose a levy on consumers of natural gas and LPG (cooking gas) to help fund a massive $42 billion strategic fuel reserv
Revolution in video content production
2026-08-06 00:00 UTC · All News · Asadian
Shafaqna English- On Wednesday(5 Aug 2026), The Walt Disney Company and TikTok revealed a groundbreaking licensing agreement that will allow content creators on the short
Muslim foreign ministers agreed on a mechanism to protect Jerusalem's religious sites
2026-08-06 00:00 UTC · All News · Leila Yazdani
Shafaqna English- Muslim foreign ministers have agreed on a permanent mechanism to document and expose Israeli violations in occupied East Jerusalem and at its Islamic an
Return of goods to markets in Gaza but residents still can't afford them
2026-08-06 00:00 UTC · All News · Leila Yazdani
Shafaqna English- Some goods have returned to Gaza’s markets, after months of shortages, but the challenge now for families is finding the money to buy those goods. Maher
US: Progress in containing Spokane wildfires
2026-08-06 00:00 UTC · All News · Asadian
Shafaqna English- Fire crews near Spokane, Washington, have been making notable headway against a complex of wildfires. However, on Wednesday(5 Aug 2026) they rushed to r
SpaceX rocket fragment collides with the moon
2026-08-06 00:00 UTC · All News · Asadian
Shafaqna English- Astronomers have confirmed that a piece of a SpaceX rocket, which had been drifting in space since last year, struck the moon at a high velocity in the
Record heat in Austria
2026-08-06 00:00 UTC · All News · Asadian
Shafaqna English- Austria recorded an all-time high temperature on Wednesday(5 Aug 2026), as Hungarians were forced to limit their power usage amid the latest heatwave an

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=en.shafaqna.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=en.shafaqna.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 Shafaqna English | International Shia News & Fatwas marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

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

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 880 min at the median, 1454 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Shafaqna English | International Shia News & Fatwas 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 1,996 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Shafaqna English | International Shia News & Fatwas publish per day?

43 on a median day, measured across 48 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.