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The Cipher Brief API, RSS and sitemap

Every article The Cipher Brief publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 150 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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

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

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and The Cipher Brief headlines come back as JSON.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.thecipherbrief.com&size=5"
150
articles indexed
0
in the last 30 days
3
median per day
1
languages
1016 min
median crawl lag
08.06 → 05.08
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 47 days. The busiest hour is 00:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-06-08: 3 articles2026-06-09: 6 articles2026-06-10: 4 articles2026-06-11: 4 articles2026-06-12: 2 articles2026-06-14: 1 articles2026-06-15: 2 articles2026-06-16: 5 articles2026-06-17: 4 articles2026-06-18: 2 articles2026-06-19: 3 articles2026-06-21: 1 articles2026-06-22: 1 articles2026-06-23: 5 articles2026-06-24: 1 articles2026-06-25: 5 articles2026-06-26: 2 articles2026-06-28: 2 articles2026-06-29: 1 articles2026-06-30: 7 articles2026-07-01: 4 articles2026-07-02: 4 articles2026-07-03: 4 articles2026-07-05: 1 articles2026-07-06: 4 articles2026-07-07: 5 articles2026-07-08: 6 articles2026-07-09: 5 articles2026-07-10: 4 articles2026-07-13: 4 articles2026-07-14: 3 articles2026-07-15: 5 articles2026-07-16: 4 articles2026-07-17: 4 articles2026-07-18: 1 articles2026-07-20: 2 articles2026-07-21: 3 articles2026-07-23: 3 articles2026-07-24: 1 articles2026-07-27: 3 articles2026-07-28: 5 articles2026-07-29: 2 articles2026-07-30: 2 articles2026-07-31: 1 articles2026-08-03: 5 articles2026-08-04: 3 articles2026-08-05: 4 articles06-0806-1606-2407-0207-1007-2007-3008-05
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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=www.thecipherbrief.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When The Cipher Brief actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 150 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 1320001: 10102: 10203: 10304: 00405: 00506: 00607: 00708: 00809: 40910: 11011: 01112: 11213: 11314: 01415: 21516: 41617: 31718: 11819: 11920: 02021: 02122: 02223: 023
Mon: 25MonTue: 42TueWed: 30WedThu: 29ThuFri: 21FriSat: 1SatSun: 5Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 33% of their articles.

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish153102.0%

Latest articles

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

Former CIA Iran Expert: US-Iran War in an "Operational Pause"- But Next Move Could Trigger Wider War
2026-08-05 17:18 UTC · Ryan Simons
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BLUF: The US Must Lead in Gray Zone Activity
2026-08-05 00:00 UTC · Renee Pruneau Novakoff
America’s adversaries are increasingly using gray zone tactics—including cyber operations, influence campaigns, covert action, and economic coercion—to challenge U.S. int
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There Will be Unseen Costs to be Paid over the War in Iran. Who is Weighing Them?
2026-08-05 00:00 UTC · Brad Christian
As negotiators work on an agreement to re-implement a ceasefire and restart negotiations aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions, there are questions about whether Iran
Sects, Lies, and Statecraft
2026-08-04 12:38 UTC · Book Reviews · Ryan Simons
SCHISM: THE STORY OF SECTARIANISM IN THE MODERN MIDDLE EASTby Simon Mabon / Yale University PressReviewed by Andy Dunn, former CIA Deputy Assistant DirectorThe Reviewer —
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Why the Iran War Remains Strategically Adrift
2026-08-04 00:00 UTC · Walter Pincus
Retired Air Force Generals James Slife and S. Clinton Hinote assess the Iran war, arguing that while U.S. forces are achieving military objectives, Washington lacks a coh
Global Intelligence Report for Monday, August 3, 2026
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Global Intelligence Report for August 3, 2026: Gulf States urge Trump to pursue talks with Iran, U.S. military seeks unconventional ways to pressure Iran, Cyber Command p
Dead Drop: August 2 - 8
2026-08-03 00:00 UTC · Your Trusted Source; Analysis
SPY AGENCY START UPS: NOW A GROWTH INDUSTRY: Japan launched a new centralized intelligence body on Friday for the first time since World War II, with the National Intelli
AI Summaries Are Susceptible to Manipulation — and That's Both a Business and a National Security Problem
2026-08-03 00:00 UTC · Candice Bryant; Dr John Pennell
As AI chatbots replace traditional search engines, adversaries are exploiting Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) to manipulate the information AI systems retrieve and s
Iran Is “Counting Coup” On The United States!
2026-08-03 00:00 UTC · Mark Fowler
Iran is playing a very dangerous game. In the face of the awesome military power of the United States, in between desultory negotiating sessions, they continue to touch t
The New Fault Line: Israel and Turkey on a Collision Course
2026-08-03 00:00 UTC · Joey Gagnard; Nils Alstad
That is what the Israel-Turkey rivalry looks like when it is working as designed: a NATO member and a US major non-NATO ally maneuvering against each other in a third cou
Investing in the Next Arsenal of Democracy
2026-07-31 00:00 UTC · Hamlet Yousef
America’s critical technology, maritime, infrastructure, and advanced manufacturing base is one of the clearest places where tax incentives, private capital, and national
Winning the Peace: The Democratic Dilemma of Limited War
2026-07-30 00:00 UTC · Sami Omari; Dr John Bruni
Dr. John Bruni and Sami Omari argue that modern democracies must better integrate military, diplomatic, economic, and political strategy to translate battlefield success
Global Intelligence Report for Thursday, July 30, 2026
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Global Intelligence Report for Wednesday, July 29, 2026
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Decide on North Korea
2026-07-29 00:00 UTC · Ambassador Joseph DeTrani
North Korea is strategically closer to Russia and China than any time since the Korean War, while the U.S. does nothing to challenge the growing power of the Axis of Auth
What Ukraine Is Teaching the World About the Future of War
2026-07-28 19:16 UTC · Ryan Simons
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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.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.thecipherbrief.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:

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.thecipherbrief.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 The Cipher Brief marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

14%
dates from JSON-LD
100%
articles with a byline
33%
articles with sections
301 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 1016 min at the median, 1736 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does The Cipher Brief 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 150 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does The Cipher Brief publish per day?

3 on a median day, measured across 47 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.