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South Shore News API, RSS and sitemap

Every article South Shore News publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 85 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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Four ways to pull southshore.news

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

JSON Search this publisher

Every article we hold from southshore.news, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

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

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

society 40%property 30%transport 30%

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and South Shore News headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.southshore.news&size=5"
85
articles indexed
57
in the last 30 days
4
median per day
1
languages
3006 min
median crawl lag
20.08 → 02.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 14 days. The busiest hour is 10:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-20: 2 articles2026-08-21: 3 articles2026-08-22: 2 articles2026-08-23: 4 articles2026-08-24: 6 articles2026-08-25: 6 articles2026-08-26: 4 articles2026-08-27: 6 articles2026-08-28: 6 articles2026-08-29: 4 articles2026-08-30: 4 articles2026-08-31: 3 articles2026-09-01: 3 articles2026-09-02: 4 articles08-2008-2208-2408-2608-2808-3009-0109-02
bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=www.southshore.news&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When South Shore News actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 85 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 00001: 00102: 10203: 00304: 00405: 00506: 00607: 00708: 00809: 00910: 221011: 221112: 101213: 11314: 01415: 01516: 11617: 01718: 01819: 01920: 02021: 02122: 02223: 023
Mon: 9MonTue: 9TueWed: 8WedThu: 8ThuFri: 9FriSat: 6SatSun: 8Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 12% of their articles.

SectionArticles
property7
society7
transport7

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish5767.1%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent South Shore News articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

O’Brien Leads Plymouth County GOP Commissioner Primary With Five Towns Out
2026-09-02 13:34 UTC
PLYMOUTH COUNTY — September 2, 2026 — Anthony Thomas O’Brien, Sr.
Pembroke Select Board Clears Fall Special Town Meeting Warrant Articles
2026-09-02 11:03 UTC
PEMBROKE - August 26, 2026 - The Pembroke Select Board moved forward on seven warrant articles for the upcoming Special Town Meeting, advancing measures to settle past-ye
Plympton Secures Land Conservation and Development Agreements Following Executive Session
2026-09-02 10:03 UTC
PLYMPTON — August 26, 2026 — Following an executive session, the Plympton Board of Selectmen announced major legal settlements securing long-sought conservation land at T
Marshfield Voters Reject $7 Million Override by 742 Votes
2026-09-02 02:13 UTC
MARSHFIELD - September 1 - Marshfield voters defeated the town’s $7 million Proposition 2½ operational override on Tuesday, 4,801 to 4,059, according to preliminary resul
East Bridgewater Select Board Weighs Independent Legal Counsel in Wake of June Wire Transfer Incident
2026-09-01 12:03 UTC
EAST BRIDGEWATER — August 26, 2026 — The East Bridgewater Select Board held a midday virtual meeting Wednesday to consider whether to retain independent outside legal cou
Plymouth Select Board Backs One-Year Moratorium on Standalone Data Centers Ahead of Fall Town Meeting
2026-09-01 11:03 UTC
PLYMOUTH — August 25, 2026 — Confronted with escalating statewide concerns over power grid strain and heavy resource consumption, the Plymouth Select Board voted unanimou
Halifax Select Board Appoints Darleen Sullivan as Interim Town Administrator
2026-09-01 10:02 UTC
Approves Three-Year Police Union Contracts
Whitman Braces for Nearly $1M Projected Deficit as Select Board Sets January Debt Exclusion Vote for South Shore Tech
2026-08-31 12:03 UTC
WHITMAN — August 25, 2026 — Facing an initial projected fiscal year 2028 deficit of nearly $1 million—which could double to roughly $2 million if capital costs are absorb
Hingham Prepares $24.2M Elementary School Roof Overhauls and Moves to Lengthen Electric Plant Debt
2026-08-31 11:03 UTC
HINGHAM - August 25, 2026 - The Hingham Select Board advanced multi-million-dollar schematic design packages for roof replacements at Plymouth River and South Elementary
Cohasset Select Board Moves to Terminate Flock Surveillance Camera Contract Ahead of Automatic Renewal Deadline
2026-08-31 10:03 UTC
COHASSET - August 25, 2026 - Facing an impending deadline, the Cohasset Select Board voted unanimously to instruct the town manager to notify Flock Safety that the town w
Navigating Deficits and Academic Growth: Rockland Schools Balance Budget Reductions with Targeted Grant Initiatives
2026-08-30 11:03 UTC
ROCKLAND - August 24 - Facing an initial level-service deficit approaching $1.9 million for Fiscal Year 2027, the Rockland School Committee reviewed extensive district-wi
Marshfield Select Board Framework Outlines Town Administrator Priorities and Performance Audits Ahead of Override Vote
2026-08-30 10:03 UTC
MARSHFIELD — August 24, 2026 — Just six days into his new role, Town Administrator Ted Langill faced the Marshfield Select Board on Monday as members debated a foundation
Not Seniority. Not Rank. The Gavel.
2026-08-29 10:01 UTC
A South Shore News investigation: What factors determine which Massachusetts Legislators see the local earmarks they file signed into law.

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.southshore.news&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.southshore.news&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 South Shore News marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

7%
dates from JSON-LD
7%
articles with a byline
12%
articles with sections
152 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 3006 min at the median, 8957 minutes at the 90th percentile.

FAQ

Does South Shore News 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 85 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does South Shore News publish per day?

4 on a median day, measured across 14 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.