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

United KingdomEnglish#8,615 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.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=sluggerotoole.com&size=5"
204
articles indexed
87
in the last 30 days
2
median per day
1
languages
1018 min
median crawl lag
08.06 → 06.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 82 days. The busiest hour is 00:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-06-08: 2 articles2026-06-09: 2 articles2026-06-11: 1 articles2026-06-12: 3 articles2026-06-13: 3 articles2026-06-14: 1 articles2026-06-15: 6 articles2026-06-16: 1 articles2026-06-17: 1 articles2026-06-18: 1 articles2026-06-19: 3 articles2026-06-20: 2 articles2026-06-21: 1 articles2026-06-22: 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: 4 articles2026-08-29: 2 articles2026-08-30: 6 articles2026-08-31: 2 articles2026-09-01: 2 articles2026-09-02: 1 articles2026-09-03: 2 articles2026-09-04: 3 articles2026-09-05: 1 articles2026-09-06: 3 articles06-0806-2207-0507-2008-0308-2009-0309-06

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 204 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 1590001: 00102: 00203: 00304: 00405: 30506: 140607: 50708: 30809: 40910: 21011: 11112: 31213: 41314: 21415: 01516: 01617: 21718: 11819: 11920: 22021: 02122: 02223: 023
Mon: 43MonTue: 30TueWed: 25WedThu: 22ThuFri: 32FriSat: 21SatSun: 33Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 78% of their articles.

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish206101.0%

Latest articles

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

Choyaa: The Spectre of Drumcree…
2026-09-06 13:56 UTC
The spectre of Drumcree has loomed over Northern Ireland again this past week. For many, it had faded from view over the last 28 years; for those of us within the Orange
Open Sunday – discuss what you like…
2026-09-06 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…
2026-09-06 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
Storytime with Houdi – Raintown…
2026-09-05 19:37 UTC
It’s 1987. I’m working in war torn Northern Ireland. Worse, I’m in west Belfast. In a big shopping centre, the first major retail development in that area for decades. Th
Violence receding, foundations lagging: findings from new Northern Ireland Peace Index
2026-09-04 11:59 UTC
Queen’s University Belfast’s Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice hosted the launch of the first Northern Ireland Peace Index (NIPI). The Index is the result
Groans all round as new Health Minister Robbie Butler pulls a Father Ted…
2026-09-04 10:11 UTC
Pour aul Robbie Butler. Well respected as one of the nicest men in politics there were concerns that he would be completely out of his depth as Health Minister and so it
Whoops apocalypse in the 21st century…
2026-09-04 09:15 UTC
Some readers may be old enough to remember both a TV series and movie from the 1980’s called Whoops Apocalypse. These were satirical fictions about global catastrophe cau
Is Drumcree the excuse they need to pull down Stormont?
2026-09-03 07:56 UTC
I have been quiet lately as I find the current atmosphere even more depressing than usual. Drumcree was a particularly bleak time in our history and I, like most of us, h
What We Choose to Pick – Are We Fighting the Wrong Battles?
2026-09-03 00:00 UTC · Uncategorized · Macha
Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. Seamus Heaney, “Blackberry-Picking” I visited the Seamus Heaney HomePlace this month,
Twenty Five Years On – the more things change, the more they stay the same…
2026-09-02 06:00 UTC
This year sees a quarter of a century pass since one of the basest, most depraved ‘protests’ in our conflictive history – the Holy Cross ‘protest’ in North Belfast. While
Can Northern Ireland’s AI Strategy deliver?
2026-09-01 07:50 UTC
Earlier this month, the Executive published its long-awaited draft Artificial Intelligence Strategy. While it recognises that AI can support economic growth and the publi
Chambré Weekly Bulletin- 01/09/2026
2026-09-01 07:47 UTC
What you need to know Prime Minister Andy Burnham made his first visit to Northern Ireland this week, as part of his cost-of-living “listening tour”. He sought to take th
No Place For Predators In Policing
2026-08-31 13:00 UTC
The overwhelming majority of police officers are decent, courageous public servants — but a small minority exploit the trust and access of their uniform to prey on vulner
Rope-A-Dope
2026-08-31 06:00 UTC
On October 30th 1974, the world was treated to a boxing spectacle for the ages in Kinshasa. The legendary ‘Rumble in the Jungle ’ saw Muhammad Ali turn the strengths of t
On one of the last days of summer, swallows coast the currents. Where a kite might fly…
2026-08-30 05:55 UTC
Swallows skim the path, gone in a flash. Soon they’ll leave – towing the dreams of summer south, far from St Saviour’s Parish Church, set here above Greyabbey’s Gothic cl
Storytime with Houdi – Herr Flick…
2026-08-29 17:44 UTC
Yes Houdi. Cuppa! Cuppa! Wanna cuppa? Gearóid always spoke in whispers and started his conversations with yes and finished with honestly or I swear on the bible. Every co
Donald Trump orders Lake Ontario to be renamed ‘Lake America’…
2026-08-28 14:18 UTC
The great orange one is at it again. Donald Trump stepped up his war of words with Ottawa on Thursday, ordering his government to change the name of Lake Ontario, which s
Gas prices to rise nearly 20% from October…
2026-08-28 13:41 UTC
Gas prices for around 200,000 domestic and small business SSE Airtricity customers in Belfast and the west of Northern Ireland will increase by an average of £174 per yea

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
77%
articles with a byline
78%
articles with sections
129 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 1018 min at the median, 4635 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 204 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 82 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.