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The Cool Down API, RSS and sitemap

Every article The Cool Down publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 6,877 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United StatesEnglish#623 by volume

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

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

Call the API

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

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.thecooldown.com&size=5"
6,877
articles indexed
0
in the last 30 days
117
median per day
1
languages
51 min
median crawl lag
09.06 → 06.08
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 59 days. The busiest hour is 23:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-06-09: 100 articles2026-06-10: 108 articles2026-06-11: 130 articles2026-06-12: 115 articles2026-06-13: 84 articles2026-06-14: 78 articles2026-06-15: 82 articles2026-06-16: 96 articles2026-06-17: 94 articles2026-06-18: 87 articles2026-06-19: 81 articles2026-06-20: 97 articles2026-06-21: 101 articles2026-06-22: 98 articles2026-06-23: 124 articles2026-06-24: 90 articles2026-06-25: 78 articles2026-06-26: 90 articles2026-06-27: 102 articles2026-06-28: 112 articles2026-06-29: 158 articles2026-06-30: 142 articles2026-07-01: 118 articles2026-07-02: 119 articles2026-07-03: 113 articles2026-07-04: 108 articles2026-07-05: 106 articles2026-07-06: 107 articles2026-07-07: 127 articles2026-07-08: 114 articles2026-07-09: 104 articles2026-07-10: 101 articles2026-07-11: 111 articles2026-07-12: 115 articles2026-07-13: 173 articles2026-07-14: 129 articles2026-07-15: 128 articles2026-07-16: 129 articles2026-07-17: 120 articles2026-07-18: 118 articles2026-07-19: 118 articles2026-07-20: 109 articles2026-07-21: 121 articles2026-07-22: 127 articles2026-07-23: 121 articles2026-07-24: 129 articles2026-07-25: 117 articles2026-07-26: 120 articles2026-07-27: 137 articles2026-07-28: 135 articles2026-07-29: 141 articles2026-07-30: 149 articles2026-07-31: 149 articles2026-08-01: 142 articles2026-08-02: 120 articles2026-08-03: 175 articles2026-08-04: 157 articles2026-08-05: 151 articles2026-08-06: 72 articles06-0906-1806-2707-0607-1507-2408-0208-06
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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=www.thecooldown.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When The Cool Down actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 6,877 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 2980001: 2930102: 2940203: 2850304: 2950405: 2950506: 2900607: 2900708: 2810809: 2840910: 2811011: 2771112: 2691213: 2781314: 2791415: 2831516: 2721617: 2871718: 2771819: 2911920: 2902021: 2892122: 2952223: 30423
Mon: 1,039MonTue: 1,131TueWed: 1,071WedThu: 989ThuFri: 898FriSat: 879SatSun: 870Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 100% of their articles.

SectionArticles
Tech2,289
Home1,657
Outdoors1,593
Business1,136
Food202

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish6,877100.0%

Latest articles

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

Reddit user finishes box of bags from grandparent's home, and 1997 packaging sparks nostalgia
2026-08-06 10:21 UTC · Home · Shannon Germaine
A Reddit post about finally using up a box of bags from a grandparent's home sparked a wave of appreciation for a nearly 30-year-old household item.
Baby bird fell from its nest in severe heat, and arrived sporting an adorable hairstyle
2026-08-06 10:12 UTC · Outdoors · Curtis Deacon
A small baby bird is capturing hearts on Instagram after rescuers posted images of its unique hairdo.
Unhoused residents turn to cooling centers as California regions enter peak heat
2026-08-06 10:03 UTC · Outdoors · Leigh Cook
Cooling centers are serving as a critical refuge for residents who have few ways to avoid dangerous temperatures.
Gardener warns coneflower sprouts that look like 'tiny alien flowers' are actually serious disease
2026-08-06 09:54 UTC · Home · Curtis Deacon
If your coneflower suddenly looks like it’s growing a tiny alien flower instead of its usual bloom and they’re green instead of the usual color, you’re probably looking a
Boston to host second-ever National Urban Rat Summit this fall
2026-08-06 09:45 UTC · Tech · Aaron Goldstein
Boston is preparing to turn one of the city's oldest headaches into a national conversation as Mayor Michelle Wu announced that the city will host the second-ever Nationa
North Carolina homeowner spotted hornets by bird feeder, revealing first yellow-legged hornet foothold
2026-08-06 09:45 UTC · Tech · Leigh Cook
Warnings are spreading across the region after a North Carolina homeowner spotted unusual hornet activity near a hummingbird feeder.
Homemade compost sifter spins at breakneck speed, prompting an urgent plea for help
2026-08-06 09:36 UTC · Home · Curtis Deacon
A homeowner took to Reddit looking for advice after turning on their DIY compost trommel and discovering it spins at break-neck speeds.
Snake catcher spots rare albino Palestinian viper near chicken coop during routine call
2026-08-06 09:27 UTC · Outdoors · James Nanzo
A snake removal call near a chicken coop in Israel led to an extraordinary wildlife sighting when a rescuer realized the venomous animal was a rare albino one.
17-hour outage leaves Hollywood Hills, Brentwood without AC during heat wave
2026-08-06 09:18 UTC · Home · Kim LaCapria
Hundreds of Los Angeles households spent more than 17 hours without electricity and air conditioning after a blackout hit the Hollywood Hills and Brentwood during a heat
Virginia driver discovered nest of baby squirrels inside engine bay after every dashboard alert lit up
2026-08-06 09:09 UTC · Outdoors · Aaron Goldstein
A Fairfax, Virginia, driver started his car only to see every dashboard warning light illuminate.
$800 Article shelf sparked backlash after a buyer found stripped screws, flimsy materials
2026-08-06 09:00 UTC · Home · Curtis Deacon
An $800 shelving unit is drawing backlash online after a buyer said it arrived with stripped hardware and lower-end materials than expected.
Texas data center fight takes a religious turn, with critics warning of 'a deal with the devil'
2026-08-06 08:51 UTC · Tech · Elizabeth Smith
In Texas, some residents are framing the fast-growing data center industry not only as posing a land-use or utility issue but also as a moral one.
California heat is sending ACs into overdrive, but a $16 fix could help trim the bill
2026-08-06 08:42 UTC · Home · Aaron Goldstein
With homes getting harder to keep comfortable, many air conditioners are staying on longer, leaving households bracing for painful summer power bills.
California's third heat wave puts Kern County back in triple digits, with desert areas under warning
2026-08-06 08:33 UTC · Outdoors · Kim LaCapria
Heat alerts went out across Kern County as a dangerous hot spell continued this weekend.
New Toyota bZ owner frustrated after discovering none of the chargers on their route fit
2026-08-06 08:24 UTC · Tech · Curtis Deacon
When your local charging infrastructure isn't built out, an EV upgrade can be less convenient than you hoped.
California families flock to Millerton Lake to escape triple-digit heat
2026-08-06 08:15 UTC · Outdoors · Kim LaCapria
Millerton Lake drew families looking to cool off — and some found a safety benefit once they arrived.
As California heat tops 100 degrees, experts urge twice-daily check-ins for seniors, pets
2026-08-06 08:06 UTC · Home · Aaron Goldstein
With temperatures rapidly climbing across California, even routine outdoor activity can quickly become dangerous.
Once feared extinct, India's pygmy hogs return home in major conservation milestone
2026-08-06 07:57 UTC · Outdoors · James Nanzo
Conservationists in India have released 15 pygmy hogs, the world's smallest pigs, back into the grasslands of Manas National Park in Assam.

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.thecooldown.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.thecooldown.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 Cool Down marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

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

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 51 min at the median, 88 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does The Cool Down 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 6,877 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does The Cool Down publish per day?

117 on a median day, measured across 59 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.