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Spotrac API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Spotrac publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 1,555 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United StatesEnglish#2,098 by volume

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

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

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

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Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Spotrac headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.spotrac.com&size=5"
1,555
articles indexed
1,554
in the last 30 days
52
median per day
1
languages
257 min
median crawl lag
04.08 → 06.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 17 days. The busiest hour is 23:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-04: 1 articles2026-08-08: 1 articles2026-08-10: 1 articles2026-08-17: 1 articles2026-08-18: 1 articles2026-08-26: 52 articles2026-08-27: 45 articles2026-08-28: 56 articles2026-08-29: 144 articles2026-08-30: 520 articles2026-08-31: 315 articles2026-09-01: 124 articles2026-09-02: 70 articles2026-09-03: 36 articles2026-09-04: 129 articles2026-09-05: 53 articles2026-09-06: 6 articles08-0408-1008-1808-2708-2908-3109-0209-0409-06
bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=www.spotrac.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Spotrac actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 1,555 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 970001: 970102: 290203: 00304: 00405: 10506: 00607: 30708: 80809: 270910: 121011: 391112: 501213: 101314: 291415: 211516: 121617: 531718: 871819: 1021920: 1762021: 1232122: 1642223: 41523
Mon: 317MonTue: 126TueWed: 122WedThu: 81ThuFri: 185FriSat: 198SatSun: 526Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 0% of their articles.

SectionArticles
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Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish1,555100.0%

Latest articles

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

D’Anthony Bell — Signed to practice squad
2026-09-06 21:25 UTC
Signed to the practice squad by Seattle Seahawks (SEA)
Jon Runyan — Signed extended
2026-09-06 18:41 UTC
Signed a 2 year $22 million contract extension with New York Giants (NYG)
Harrison Smith — Signed
2026-09-06 16:04 UTC
Signed a 1 year $12.25 million with Minnesota Vikings (MIN)
Jameis Winston — Signed extended
2026-09-06 15:52 UTC
Signed a 2 year $13 million contract extension with New York Giants (NYG)
Jon Weeks — Signed from practice squad
2026-09-06 10:08 UTC
Signed to the active roster by San Francisco 49ers (SF)
Ty Johnson — Contract purchased
2026-09-05 23:59 UTC
Contract purchased by Tampa Bay Rays (TB)
Oliver Dunn — Designated for assignment
2026-09-05 23:59 UTC
Designated for Assignment by Tampa Bay Rays (TB)
Ryan Walker — Demoted to minors
2026-09-05 23:59 UTC
Demoted to the Minors by San Francisco Giants (SF)
Jasson Domínguez — Promoted from minors
2026-09-05 23:59 UTC
Promoted from the Minors by New York Yankees (NYY)
Alek Thomas — Designated for assignment
2026-09-05 23:59 UTC
Designated for Assignment by Los Angeles Dodgers (LAD)
Kyle Hurt — Demoted to minors
2026-09-05 23:59 UTC
Demoted to the Minors by Los Angeles Dodgers (LAD)
Tyler Freeman — Outrighted
2026-09-05 23:59 UTC
Outrighted by Colorado Rockies (COL)
Vimael Machin — Contract purchased
2026-09-05 23:59 UTC
Contract purchased by Colorado Rockies (COL)
Kade Morris — Demoted to minors
2026-09-05 23:59 UTC
Demoted to the Minors by Athletics (ATH)
Seth Johnson — Promoted from minors
2026-09-05 23:59 UTC
Promoted from the Minors by Athletics (ATH)
Thomas Odukoya — Signed to practice squad
2026-09-05 23:59 UTC
Signed to the practice squad by Kansas City Chiefs (KC)
Zech McPhearson — Released
2026-09-05 23:59 UTC
Released by Los Angeles Rams (LAR)
Power Echols — Waived
2026-09-05 23:59 UTC
Waived by Seattle Seahawks (SEA)

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.spotrac.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:

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.spotrac.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 Spotrac 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
0%
articles with sections
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 257 min at the median, 1017 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 Spotrac 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 1,555 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Spotrac publish per day?

52 on a median day, measured across 17 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.