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The Reload API, RSS and sitemap

Every article The Reload publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 153 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United StatesEnglish#14,105 by volume

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

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

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

crime 60%legal 40%

Call the API

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

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=thereload.com&size=5"
153
articles indexed
45
in the last 30 days
5
median per day
1
languages
4044 min
median crawl lag
16.08 → 06.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 10 days. The busiest hour is 09:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-16: 1 articles2026-08-20: 2 articles2026-08-21: 3 articles2026-08-23: 5 articles2026-08-27: 6 articles2026-08-28: 4 articles2026-08-30: 8 articles2026-09-03: 4 articles2026-09-04: 6 articles2026-09-06: 6 articles08-1608-2008-2108-2308-2708-2808-3009-0309-0409-06
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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=thereload.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When The Reload actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 153 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 00001: 00102: 00203: 00304: 00405: 00506: 00607: 00708: 00809: 350910: 01011: 01112: 01213: 01314: 01415: 01516: 51617: 01718: 01819: 21920: 02021: 12122: 22223: 023
Mon: 0MonTue: 0TueWed: 0WedThu: 12ThuFri: 13FriSat: 0SatSun: 20Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 22% of their articles.

SectionArticles
crime10
legal10

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish4529.4%

Latest articles

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

Analysis: Why DOJ Says SCOTUS Should Strike Down AR-15 Bans, But Not Every Gun Ban [Member Exclusive]
2026-09-06 09:04 UTC
The federal government's brief in the AR-15 case before the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is among the most important and most interesting.
Podcast: Teaching a College Course on Guns in America (Ft. Wake Forest’s David Yamane) [Member Early Access]
2026-09-06 09:02 UTC
Plus, Reload Reporter Julie Miller and I discuss the new release of the National Firearms Survey.
Podcast: Teaching a College Course on Guns in America (Ft. Wake Forest’s David Yamane)
2026-09-06 09:02 UTC
Plus, Reload Reporter Julie Miller and I discuss the new release of the National Firearms Survey.
Members’ Newsletter: DOJ Asks SCOTUS to Toss AR-15 Bans
2026-09-06 09:00 UTC
Plus, Wake Forrest Professor David Yamane explained his course about guns in America on the podcast!
Analysis: How Defense Gun Uses Stack Up in the Latest Major Survey [Member Exclusive]
2026-09-04 09:02 UTC
Just as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reinstated its section on Defensive Gun Use (DGU) estimates, we have another one.
Analysis: How Defensive Gun Uses Stack Up in the Latest Major Survey [Member Exclusive]
2026-09-04 09:02 UTC
Just as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reinstated its section on Defensive Gun Use (DGU) estimates, we have another one.
Newsletter: 40 Million AR-15s in Civilian Hands, New Survey Finds
2026-09-04 09:00 UTC
Plus, the reporter who broke news of a ransomware attack on the ATF joins the podcast to discuss the hack.
Ninth Circuit Upholds State Surveillance Mandate at California Gun Stores
2026-09-03 19:59 UTC
A California law requiring licensed gun dealers to maintain surveillance systems that record video and audio of sales will stay in place.
Federal Judge Upholds Hawaii’s Under-21 Gun Ban
2026-09-03 16:43 UTC
Hawaii can bar people under 21 from buying and owning firearms, a federal judge has ruled.
Analysis: Will NFA Processing Improvements Undermine Challenges to the Law? [Member Exclusive]
2026-08-30 09:04 UTC
It's easier than ever to own an item regulated by the National Firearms Act (NFA), and that might actually become a problem for those trying to overturn it.
Podcast: ATF Hacked in Russian Ransomware Attack (Ft. Cybernews’ Stefanie Schappert) [Member Early Access]
2026-08-30 09:02 UTC
Plus, YouTuber JaredAF talks marksmanship on the news update!
Podcast: ATF Hacked in Russian Ransomware Attack (Ft. Cybernews’ Stefanie Schappert)
2026-08-30 09:02 UTC
Plus, YouTuber JaredAF talks marksmanship on the news update!
Members’ Newsletter: Do NFA Improvements Impair Court Challenges?
2026-08-30 09:00 UTC
Plus, I investigate the ATF ransomware hack on the podcast with Cybernews' Stephanie Schappert.
Michigan Senate Democratic Nominee Declines to Disavow Proposal to Replace Americans’ Gun Rights
2026-08-27 22:57 UTC
Abdul El-Sayed has seemingly doubled down on a past statement that the Second Amendment should be replaced with a right to healthcare.
Federal Judge Upholds Massachusetts Under-21 Semi-Auto Sales Ban
2026-08-27 16:32 UTC
A Massachusetts law barring people under 21 years old from possessing a handgun or semi-automatic firearm is constitutional.

Harvest it all

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

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=thereload.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:

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=thereload.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 Reload marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

0%
dates from JSON-LD
0%
articles with a byline
22%
articles with sections
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average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 4044 min at the median, 10678 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does The Reload 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 153 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does The Reload publish per day?

5 on a median day, measured across 10 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.