Every article The Past publishes, as JSON, through an open API with
no key and no signup. 589 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed
hourly.
English#8,366 by volume
Four ways to pull the-past.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 the-past.com, newest first. Add q= to search inside.
curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=the-past.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=the-past.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=the-past.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=the-past.com&size=20&fields=title,url,published_at,lang"open it →
Call the API
A live request. Paste it into a terminal and The Past headlines come back as JSON.
Excavations on the Île de la Cité are uncovering thousands of years of Parisian history. Amy Brunskill spoke to Julien Avinain and Lucie Altenburg to find out more.
This handsome 158-page volume focuses on the Mediterranean and its role in the Bell Beaker phenomenon. Throughout the book, the sea emerges both as an inhabited space and
This sweeping history of hunting is the archaeologist and anthropologist Brian Fagan’s final book, helped into publication by his friend and collaborator Nadia Durrani. F
The identity of a 17th-century shipwreck containing hundreds of gold coins has been revealed, three decades after its discovery. The wreck, which lies at a depth of c.18m
We can see Latin, scratched into the book’s wax 700-800 years ago. What is it? This well-preserved medieval ‘notebook’ dates to the 13th or 14th century. Measuring 10cm b
The Road to Culloden: the Jacobite Risings Approaching Armageddon: when the Cold war turned hot Marathon to Midway: the key factors in victory How Albert Speer fooled the
The ballots have been cast, the votes counted, and we are delighted to announce the winners of the MHM Book Awards. We curated a list of 2025’s best military history titl
Just before dawn on Sunday 25 June 1950, following a brief bombardment, the 150,000-strong army of the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea, backed by Soviet Russi
For a baby boomer brought up on the Biggles stories of Captain W E Johns, the opening pages of this classic memoir of World War aviation seem eerily familiar. Cecil Lewis
When the Second World War broke out in 1939, the Luftwaffe was almost as heavily dependent on rifle-calibre machine-guns as the Imperial German Air Service had been in 19
Harvest it all
Page through the archive by date. from and to accept
YYYY-MM-DD or relative values such as now-7d.
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 589 of
their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.
How many articles does The Past publish per day?
8 on a median day, measured across 26 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.
