The Fifth Estate API, RSS and sitemap

Every article The Fifth Estate publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 100 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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

Call the API

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

curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=thefifthestate.com.au&size=5"

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 14 days. The busiest hour is 08:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=thefifthestate.com.au&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When The Fifth Estate actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 100 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 7% of their articles.

Languages

Latest articles

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

On what happened at Carbon Triggers

2026-09-03 09:39 UTC

The Fifth Estate - We usually get some good swings on the voting at our debates – held before and after the panel speaks and the audience lets fly at the QandA questions,

The biggest question is the cost of inaction – Adam Murchie on balancing investor and planetary value

2026-09-03 08:40 UTC

The Fifth Estate - If there were just 10 Adam Murchies in the country, we’d probably decarbonise Australia’s mid tier buildings a lot faster than the current rate. Either

SLR and what the data and science can tell business about the polycrisis

2026-09-03 05:19 UTC

The Fifth Estate - TRANSITION RISK: Big corporates, such mining and agriculture companies – and cities – need to know if their investments are viable in the next decade o

Flood risk? Here’s how governments, insurers and property professionals can help

2026-09-02 08:37 UTC

The Fifth Estate - Every time Australia is hit by a major flood, the same questions surface. Could anything has been done to reduce the damage? Most importantly, what can

Freight, energy and regional sovereignty: planning infrastructure for the future

2026-09-02 06:16 UTC

The Fifth Estate - Australia’s regional freight debate is often framed as a contest between rail and trucks when both should be used to improve energy and regional sovere

Victoria needs better planning decisions

2026-09-02 03:29 UTC

The Fifth Estate - With a state election approaching and a recent change in government leadership, much is in flux in Victoria. One thing is certain though, planning deci

Nick Reece: A lord mayor who understands that liveability has a lot to do with a city’s building quality

2026-09-02 02:33 UTC

The Fifth Estate - VIDEO: Melbourne Lord Mayor Nick Reece is just two years into a job that will be among the most challenging of a career that’s already spanned policy,

Marsha Costanzo on how the energy transition works for GPT

2026-09-01 08:30 UTC

The Fifth Estate - A conversation with Marsha Costanzo from GPT Group in many ways encapsulates the fundamental changes in our energy landscape for buildings and beyond.

How Australian cities are made: planning beyond institutions

2026-09-01 03:18 UTC

The Fifth Estate - Perhaps nowhere is urban planning as deeply entangled with conflict as it is in Australia, largely because of the centrality of land and the rights att

Ancestors, early settlers and the rise and fall of prime real estate

2026-09-01 01:29 UTC

The Fifth Estate - TRAUMA TOWN: There are slippery migrants in this town that I loosely associate with my own ancestors. There is a myth in my father’s family about arriv

On anger

2026-08-27 09:37 UTC

The Fifth Estate - A new creative commons series from Andrew Jaspan’s 360Info and Anthony Klan’s The Klaxon is called The Age of Rage. So apt. The Fifth Estate has a conf

Toby Kent on big ambitions for the Infrastructure Sustainability Council

2026-08-27 08:49 UTC

The Fifth Estate - Toby Kent, chief executive of the Infrastructure Sustainability Council, has worked in a range of appointments in sustainability and resilience for mos

Cold on the couch? Here’s how to switch the furniture and save energy on reverse cycle aircon

2026-08-27 04:19 UTC

The Fifth Estate - Many Australians use reverse-cycle air conditioners to heat their homes during winter. These systems are usually very energy efficient. However, someti

Cold on the couch? Here's how to switch the furniture and save energy on reverse cycle aircon

2026-08-27 04:19 UTC · property

At Green Square, a public school breaks tradition and wins the community

2026-08-27 01:24 UTC

The Fifth Estate - Green Square Public School in Sydney, designed by BVN was a major departure from regular public schools. The project has won important architecture awa

Town Hall Square: nice, but should try harder

2026-08-27 01:12 UTC

The Fifth Estate - We’ve been waiting 30 years; we can wait a little longer to make sure it absolutely sings. Town Hall Square: nice, but should try harder is a story fro

The Bathla collapse exposes the financial problems in housing targets

2026-08-26 08:47 UTC

The Fifth Estate - The collapse this week of one of Western Sydney’s largest housing development and construction groups brings another part of that delivery challenge sh

Victoria’s new premier should rethink the demolition of Melbourne’s public housing towers

2026-08-26 08:08 UTC

The Fifth Estate - With less than 100 days until the state election, and with Labor behind in the polls, Victorian Premier Ben Carroll wants to set himself apart from his

Harvest it all

Page through the archive by date. from and to accept YYYY-MM-DD or relative values such as now-7d.

curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=thefifthestate.com.au&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:

curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=thefifthestate.com.au&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 Fifth Estate marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 14829 min at the median, 26464 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does The Fifth Estate 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 100 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does The Fifth Estate publish per day?

6 on a median day, measured across 14 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.