The Issue API, RSS and sitemap

Every article The Issue publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 193 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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Four ways to pull theissue.gr

All four are ours, all four are live, and none of them needs a key.

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

Call the API

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

curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.theissue.gr&size=5"

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 58 days. The busiest hour is 07:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

The 1 hatched days are gaps in the upstream news archive, not quiet days at The Issue: the whole corpus dips on those dates. They are excluded from the median above.

curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=www.theissue.gr&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When The Issue actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 193 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 31% of their articles.

Languages

The site identifies itself under The Issue, OPINIONPOST SA, Dnews — separate editions publishing under one domain.

Latest articles

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

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=www.theissue.gr&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=www.theissue.gr&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 Issue 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 246 min at the median, 5298 minutes at the 90th percentile.

Similar publishers

Comparable outlets in the same language. Those without a page here yet link straight to their slice of the API.

FAQ

Does The Issue 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 193 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does The Issue publish per day?

1 on a median day, measured across 58 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.