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SWVA Today API, RSS and sitemap

Every article SWVA Today publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 600 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United StatesEnglish#4,154 by volume

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

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

Call the API

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

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=swvatoday.com&size=5"
600
articles indexed
191
in the last 30 days
6
median per day
1
languages
1527 min
median crawl lag
08.06 → 05.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 72 days. The busiest hour is 00:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-06-08: 2 articles2026-06-09: 6 articles2026-06-10: 14 articles2026-06-11: 2 articles2026-06-12: 1 articles2026-06-13: 6 articles2026-06-15: 13 articles2026-06-16: 4 articles2026-06-17: 26 articles2026-06-18: 9 articles2026-06-19: 2 articles2026-06-20: 14 articles2026-06-22: 16 articles2026-06-23: 3 articles2026-06-24: 20 articles2026-06-25: 6 articles2026-06-29: 19 articles2026-06-30: 3 articles2026-07-01: 21 articles2026-07-02: 2 articles2026-07-03: 2 articles2026-07-04: 14 articles2026-07-05: 3 articles2026-07-06: 12 articles2026-07-07: 1 articles2026-07-08: 21 articles2026-07-09: 1 articles2026-07-12: 1 articles2026-07-13: 6 articles2026-07-14: 6 articles2026-07-15: 18 articles2026-07-16: 4 articles2026-07-17: 1 articles2026-07-18: 10 articles2026-07-19: 1 articles2026-07-20: 11 articles2026-07-21: 2 articles2026-07-22: 1 articles2026-07-25: 11 articles2026-07-27: 13 articles2026-07-28: 8 articles2026-07-29: 18 articles2026-07-30: 7 articles2026-07-31: 7 articles2026-08-01: 7 articles2026-08-03: 6 articles2026-08-04: 2 articles2026-08-05: 22 articles2026-08-06: 2 articles2026-08-07: 3 articles2026-08-08: 9 articles2026-08-09: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-10: 10 articles2026-08-11: 5 articles2026-08-12: 15 articles2026-08-13: 2 articles2026-08-15: 14 articles2026-08-16: 3 articles2026-08-17: 8 articles2026-08-18: 2 articles2026-08-19: 16 articles2026-08-21: 2 articles2026-08-22: 12 articles2026-08-23: 2 articles2026-08-24: 20 articles2026-08-25: 5 articles2026-08-31: 15 articles2026-09-01: 5 articles2026-09-02: 24 articles2026-09-03: 6 articles2026-09-04: 5 articles2026-09-05: 8 articles06-0806-2207-0707-2108-0608-1909-05

The 1 hatched days are gaps in the upstream news archive, not quiet days at SWVA Today: 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=swvatoday.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When SWVA Today actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 600 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 6010001: 00102: 00203: 00304: 00405: 00506: 00607: 00708: 00809: 00910: 01011: 01112: 01213: 01314: 01415: 01516: 01617: 01718: 01819: 01920: 02021: 02122: 02223: 023
Mon: 151MonTue: 52TueWed: 216WedThu: 41ThuFri: 23FriSat: 105SatSun: 13Sun

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish601100.2%

Latest articles

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

VDOT Bristol District completes Hurricane Helene projects
2026-09-05 00:00 UTC · Guest
Just shy of two years following Hurricane Helene, the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Bristol District finished the repair and replacement work caused by the stor
Virginia State Police Federal Rap Back Program exceeds 55,000 enrollments in first year
2026-09-05 00:00 UTC · Guest
One year into its implementation, the Virginia State Police Federal Rap Back Program now has 56,915 enrollments.
Church Notes
2026-09-05 00:00 UTC · SPorter
250 YEARS OF SERVICE. On Sept. 13 at 10:30 a.m., St. Paul Lutheran Church will hold a special service celebrating 250 years of serving this community. The congregation wi
Honoring Jesus’ beloved mother
2026-09-05 00:00 UTC · Fr Ed Dougherty Columnist
September 8th is the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In addition to Christmas and the Nativity of John the Baptist, the Nativity of Mary is the
Severe Thunderstorm Warning until SAT 12:45 PM EDT
2026-09-05 00:00 UTC · Guest
Severe Thunderstorms Bring Damaging Winds to Southwest Virginia
WCC, Appalachian Warrior Foundation to host annual Dr. Thomas L. Barnes Scholarship golf tourney
2026-09-05 00:00 UTC · Guest
Wytheville Community College (WCC), in partnership with the Appalachian Warrior Foundation (AWF), will host the Dr. Thomas L. Barnes Veteran Scholarship Fund Golf Tournam
Harvest season for wild ginseng is underway
2026-09-05 00:00 UTC · Guest
Virginia’s wild ginseng harvest season officially opened on Sept. 1 and runs through Dec. 31. Because wild American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) is listed as a threatene
September is Emergency Preparedness Month
2026-09-05 00:00 UTC · Dr Andy Overbay Columnist
Who could have foreseen the damage that Hurricane Helene brought to our doorstep two years ago last month? To this day, clean-up and block grant payments continue in Hele
Council re-visits Monroe Street work
2026-09-04 00:00 UTC · Guest
Wytheville Town Council on Aug. 24 took a new look work along Monroe Street, prompted by a call from Council Member Holly Atkins to fill the grass area of the
Sacred ground: In his search, Barnette teaches others to care for cemeteries, grave markers
2026-09-04 00:00 UTC · Stephanie Porter-Nichols Staff
The guardian angel of this region’s cemeteries: That’s how Anna Leigh DeBord described Charlie Barnette to a group gathered in Marion’s oldest cemetery last week.
Severe Thunderstorm Warning from FRI 4:49 PM EDT until FRI 5:45 PM EDT
2026-09-04 00:00 UTC · Guest
Severe Thunderstorms with Damaging Winds and Hail Expected Until 5:45 PM EDT
Special Weather Statement until FRI 4:30 PM EDT
2026-09-04 00:00 UTC · Guest
Strong Thunderstorm Bringing Gusty Winds and Hail This Afternoon
Special Weather Statement until FRI 6:15 PM EDT
2026-09-04 00:00 UTC · Guest
Strong Thunderstorm Bringing Gusty Winds and Hail This Evening
Narrow outlasts GW
2026-09-03 00:00 UTC · Guest
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Holston stops Tazewell
2026-09-03 00:00 UTC · Guest
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What to Do with Worry
2026-09-03 00:00 UTC · Pastor Cliff Bowman Bastian Church
Someone has said that worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it will not get you anywhere. That is a good picture of worry.
Saltville readies for 55th Labor Day celebration
2026-09-03 00:00 UTC · Staff Report
From a parade and fireworks to music and more music, Saltville is offering an array of entertainment to help folks celebrate Labor Day and bid farewell to summer.
Marion sweeps Panthers
2026-09-03 00:00 UTC · Guest
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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=swvatoday.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=swvatoday.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 SWVA Today marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

0%
dates from JSON-LD
100%
articles with a byline
0%
articles with sections
348 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 1527 min at the median, 2517 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does SWVA Today 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 600 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does SWVA Today publish per day?

6 on a median day, measured across 72 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.