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Slugger O'Toole API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Slugger O'Toole publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 336 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United KingdomEnglish#10,927 by volume

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

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

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

politics 40%society 30%entertainment 20%

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Slugger O'Toole headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=sluggerotoole.com&size=5"
336
articles indexed
126
in the last 30 days
2
median per day
1
languages
1049 min
median crawl lag
22.06 → 20.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 83 days. The busiest hour is 00:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-06-22: 1 articles2026-06-23: 4 articles2026-06-24: 1 articles2026-06-25: 1 articles2026-06-26: 1 articles2026-06-27: 1 articles2026-06-28: 3 articles2026-06-29: 3 articles2026-06-30: 2 articles2026-07-01: 1 articles2026-07-02: 3 articles2026-07-03: 2 articles2026-07-04: 2 articles2026-07-05: 1 articles2026-07-06: 2 articles2026-07-07: 2 articles2026-07-08: 2 articles2026-07-09: 2 articles2026-07-10: 2 articles2026-07-11: 1 articles2026-07-12: 3 articles2026-07-13: 3 articles2026-07-15: 3 articles2026-07-17: 2 articles2026-07-18: 2 articles2026-07-19: 1 articles2026-07-20: 4 articles2026-07-21: 2 articles2026-07-22: 1 articles2026-07-23: 2 articles2026-07-24: 2 articles2026-07-25: 3 articles2026-07-26: 1 articles2026-07-27: 2 articles2026-07-28: 2 articles2026-07-29: 3 articles2026-07-31: 4 articles2026-08-01: 2 articles2026-08-02: 1 articles2026-08-03: 3 articles2026-08-04: 3 articles2026-08-05: 1 articles2026-08-06: 2 articles2026-08-07: 2 articles2026-08-09: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-10: 7 articles2026-08-11: 2 articles2026-08-15: 2 articles2026-08-16: 2 articles2026-08-17: 2 articles2026-08-18: 2 articles2026-08-19: 3 articles2026-08-20: 6 articles2026-08-21: 4 articles2026-08-23: 7 articles2026-08-24: 6 articles2026-08-25: 6 articles2026-08-26: 8 articles2026-08-27: 2 articles2026-08-28: 6 articles2026-08-29: 3 articles2026-08-30: 9 articles2026-08-31: 4 articles2026-09-01: 4 articles2026-09-02: 2 articles2026-09-03: 4 articles2026-09-04: 6 articles2026-09-05: 2 articles2026-09-06: 8 articles2026-09-07: 4 articles2026-09-08: 4 articles2026-09-09: 4 articles2026-09-10: 4 articles2026-09-11: 6 articles2026-09-12: 2 articles2026-09-13: 2 articles2026-09-14: 1 articles2026-09-15: 3 articles2026-09-16: 3 articles2026-09-17: 3 articles2026-09-18: 3 articles2026-09-19: 4 articles2026-09-20: 2 articles06-2207-0507-2008-0308-2009-0309-1609-20

The 1 hatched days are gaps in the upstream news archive, not quiet days at Slugger O'Toole: the whole corpus dips on those dates. They are excluded from the median above.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=sluggerotoole.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Slugger O'Toole actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 336 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 1330001: 00102: 00203: 00304: 00405: 40506: 270607: 110708: 90809: 170910: 71011: 81112: 61213: 81314: 51415: 11516: 01617: 51718: 11819: 21920: 22021: 02122: 02223: 023
Mon: 42MonTue: 36TueWed: 32WedThu: 29ThuFri: 40FriSat: 24SatSun: 43Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 60% of their articles.

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish24673.2%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent Slugger O'Toole articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

Open Sunday – discuss what you like…
2026-09-20 06:05 UTC
The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing. Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday.
Open sunday – politics free zone…
2026-09-20 06:00 UTC
In addition to our normal open Sunday, we have a politics-free post to give you all a break. So discuss what you like here, but no politics. Comments will close at 12 pm
DUP counting down the 229 days until May’s election with spirited speeches at their annual conference #dup2026
2026-09-19 17:25 UTC
On Saturday morning, delegates at the DUP conference in La Mon Hotel were talking a lot more about the Friday night after-dinner entertainment from ABBA Duo and the conga
Storytime with Houdi - Boots....
2026-09-19 09:40 UTC · politics
Dyslexia – I Think I Have Mixed Up My ‘Worms’ Again!
2026-09-19 08:35 UTC
Although I haven’t been formally diagnosed with dyslexia, its effects have undoubtedly been a constant presence throughout my school education and professional life. Like
Poet of the Glens, but not of the Rising…
2026-09-19 08:07 UTC
John Skrine is a grandson of ‘Moira O’Neill’. Born in Dublin, after a working life in England he has retired there, and is currently researching and writing about her lif
The SDLP Will Not Rebuild Itself from Belfast or Derry…
2026-09-18 11:37 UTC
I am becoming increasingly irritated by the confident predictions that the SDLP is about to increase its vote, gain councillors and return more MLAs. Much as I would love
New row over MLA salary increases...
2026-09-18 10:45 UTC · politics
‘Days of conversation, centuries of consequence’: Benjamin Franklin at Hillsborough Castle
2026-09-18 07:45 UTC
The Linen Hall Library in Belfast hosted the final event in its five-part series marking the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence. The talk, intr
Pax Americana is becoming Tax Americana…
2026-09-17 11:05 UTC
The Trumpian revolution is re-ordering the global economic and security architecture in many ways, some of which could have significant implications for Ireland, whether
UUP, DUP and SDLP play swapsies…
2026-09-17 10:18 UTC
Former UUP councillor,ex peeler and happy Lundy Linzi Mclaren has announced that if she re-enters politics, it will be as a candidate for the SDLP. Telling Cool FM: ‘I’ve
You are getting £63 quid of your electricity bill next month….
2026-09-17 09:46 UTC
Thanks to the Great Orange One, it’s going to be an expensive winter for all of us, with petrol predicted to hit £2 a litre in the next few weeks, gas up 20% and home hea
AI: Ireland’s Next Great Engine of Jobs and Growth…
2026-09-16 14:25 UTC
Over the last week, there have been genuine concerns about the safety of increasingly powerful AI and, at the same time, ongoing scaremongering about AI causing mass job
All support acts withdraw from Ed Sheeran’s tour…
2026-09-16 09:38 UTC
From the Guardian: All four supporting acts for upcoming dates of Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour have withdrawn in solidarity with fellow opening act Macklemore, as backlash grow
Canada could become first ‘associate member’ of the EU…
2026-09-16 09:21 UTC
From the Guardian: Ursula von der Leyen’s dramatic offer to open the gate to Canada to become the EU’s first ever associate member (9:54) cannot be underestimated in poli
Jury reaches a verdict in the Noah Donohoe inquest…
2026-09-15 17:23 UTC
It has probably been the most high-profile story we have never covered on Slugger. The reason being that any discussion of the topic automatically got into conspiracy the
The lamentable response to the Robert Hamill Inquiry…
2026-09-15 10:43 UTC
Bridgewater is a Slugger reader from Belfast. The Robert Hamill Inquiry was published yesterday. The 25 year old Catholic father of three was viciously murdered by a grou
“His father’s illness was so advanced that he did not know his son had become prime minister…”
2026-09-15 10:23 UTC
It was sad to read about the death of Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s father, from the BBC: Prime Minister Andy Burnham has cancelled official engagements on Monday and Tue

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=sluggerotoole.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=sluggerotoole.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 Slugger O'Toole marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

0%
dates from JSON-LD
54%
articles with a byline
60%
articles with sections
130 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 1049 min at the median, 8918 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Slugger O'Toole 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 336 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Slugger O'Toole publish per day?

2 on a median day, measured across 83 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.