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Smart FLASH/スマフラ[光文社週刊誌] API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Smart FLASH/スマフラ[光文社週刊誌] publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 1,748 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

JapanJapanese#3,825 by volume

Four ways to pull smart-flash.jp

All four are ours, all four are live, and none of them needs a key.

JSON Search this publisher

Every article we hold from smart-flash.jp, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

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

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

entertainment 95%

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Smart FLASH/スマフラ[光文社週刊誌] headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=smart-flash.jp&size=5"
1,748
articles indexed
957
in the last 30 days
32
median per day
1
languages
—
median crawl lag
25.08 → 22.10
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 59 days. The busiest hour is 09:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-25: 4 articles2026-08-26: 30 articles2026-08-27: 41 articles2026-08-28: 33 articles2026-08-29: 18 articles2026-08-30: 29 articles2026-08-31: 22 articles2026-09-01: 29 articles2026-09-02: 36 articles2026-09-03: 37 articles2026-09-04: 33 articles2026-09-05: 19 articles2026-09-06: 24 articles2026-09-07: 28 articles2026-09-08: 30 articles2026-09-09: 32 articles2026-09-10: 36 articles2026-09-11: 30 articles2026-09-12: 18 articles2026-09-13: 14 articles2026-09-14: 26 articles2026-09-15: 35 articles2026-09-16: 38 articles2026-09-17: 37 articles2026-09-18: 39 articles2026-09-19: 23 articles2026-09-20: 22 articles2026-09-21: 28 articles2026-09-22: 35 articles2026-09-23: 36 articles2026-09-24: 40 articles2026-09-25: 37 articles2026-09-26: 17 articles2026-09-27: 22 articles2026-09-28: 24 articles2026-09-29: 34 articles2026-09-30: 38 articles2026-10-01: 37 articles2026-10-02: 38 articles2026-10-03: 19 articles2026-10-04: 27 articles2026-10-05: 28 articles2026-10-06: 37 articles2026-10-07: 39 articles2026-10-08: 36 articles2026-10-09: 37 articles2026-10-10: 18 articles2026-10-11: 34 articles2026-10-12: 23 articles2026-10-13: 38 articles2026-10-14: 33 articles2026-10-15: 37 articles2026-10-16: 27 articles2026-10-17: 11 articles2026-10-18: 32 articles2026-10-19: 2 articles2026-10-20: 42 articles2026-10-21: 33 articles2026-10-22: 46 articles08-2509-0309-1209-2109-3010-0910-1810-22
bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=smart-flash.jp&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Smart FLASH/スマフラ[光文社週刊誌] actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 1,748 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 00001: 00102: 240203: 60304: 90405: 550506: 1280607: 1090708: 1390809: 1480910: 1271011: 891112: 491213: 171314: 481415: 781516: 1271617: 1351718: 1461819: 1331920: 1012021: 772122: 32223: 023
Mon: 181MonTue: 284TueWed: 315WedThu: 347ThuFri: 274FriSat: 143SatSun: 204Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 50% of their articles.

SectionArticles
entertainment874

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
jaJapanese1,748100.0%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent Smart FLASH/スマフラ[光文社週刊誌] articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

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=smart-flash.jp&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=smart-flash.jp&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 Smart FLASH/スマフラ[光文社週刊誌] 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
50%
articles with sections
—
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is — at the median, 730 minutes at the 90th percentile.

Similar publishers

Comparable outlets in the same language. Those without a page here yet link straight to their slice of the API.

FAQ

Does Smart FLASH/スマフラ[光文社週刊誌] 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 1,748 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Smart FLASH/スマフラ[光文社週刊誌] publish per day?

32 on a median day, measured across 59 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.