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thevwindependent.com API, RSS and sitemap

Every article thevwindependent.com publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 690 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United StatesEnglish#7,609 by volume

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

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

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and thevwindependent.com headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=thevwindependent.com&size=5"
690
articles indexed
280
in the last 30 days
9
median per day
1
languages
1635 min
median crawl lag
31.07 → 21.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 45 days. The busiest hour is 00:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-07-31: 6 articles2026-08-01: 2 articles2026-08-02: 3 articles2026-08-03: 20 articles2026-08-04: 11 articles2026-08-05: 10 articles2026-08-13: 6 articles2026-08-14: 11 articles2026-08-15: 1 articles2026-08-16: 9 articles2026-08-17: 15 articles2026-08-18: 10 articles2026-08-19: 9 articles2026-08-20: 10 articles2026-08-21: 7 articles2026-08-22: 5 articles2026-08-23: 8 articles2026-08-24: 11 articles2026-08-25: 15 articles2026-08-26: 9 articles2026-08-27: 7 articles2026-08-28: 5 articles2026-08-29: 6 articles2026-08-30: 9 articles2026-08-31: 15 articles2026-09-01: 13 articles2026-09-02: 11 articles2026-09-03: 9 articles2026-09-04: 3 articles2026-09-05: 10 articles2026-09-06: 3 articles2026-09-07: 10 articles2026-09-08: 17 articles2026-09-09: 12 articles2026-09-10: 8 articles2026-09-11: 5 articles2026-09-12: 6 articles2026-09-13: 10 articles2026-09-14: 17 articles2026-09-15: 8 articles2026-09-16: 13 articles2026-09-17: 9 articles2026-09-18: 11 articles2026-09-20: 10 articles2026-09-21: 10 articles07-3108-1408-2108-2809-0409-1109-1809-21
bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=thevwindependent.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When thevwindependent.com actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 690 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 4150001: 00102: 00203: 00304: 00405: 00506: 00607: 00708: 00809: 00910: 01011: 01112: 01213: 01314: 01415: 01516: 01617: 01718: 01819: 01920: 02021: 02122: 02223: 023
Mon: 98MonTue: 74TueWed: 64WedThu: 49ThuFri: 48FriSat: 30SatSun: 52Sun

Languages

The site identifies itself under thevwindependent.com, An unusual type of call handled by Van Wert Police Dept., Donald F. Kinzie, Dorcas G. Merkle memorial service, Fast donates red nets to parks dept. — separate editions publishing under one domain.

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish41560.1%

Latest articles

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

John D. McVay
2026-09-21 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Flood waters pose danger…
2026-09-21 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Real estate transfers 9/14-9/18/2026
2026-09-21 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Van Wert Police blotter 9/13-9/19/2026
2026-09-21 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
COA offering Medicare 101 program
2026-09-21 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Crestview BOE hears various updates at monthly meeting
2026-09-21 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Harvest Moon Festival is this Saturday
2026-09-21 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Volleyball: tough night for local teams
2026-09-21 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Random Thoughts; playoffs, proposal, more
2026-09-21 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Josephine Theresa Felger
2026-09-21 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Heppeard a Hall of Famer…
2026-09-20 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Flood water danger…
2026-09-20 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
NatureFest event planned for October
2026-09-20 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Simon & Garfunkel Story coming to NPAC
2026-09-20 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
James F. Kennedy
2026-09-20 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Knights, Lancers run rare 4K races
2026-09-20 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Retired teachers group sets fall meeting
2026-09-20 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
On the Air: radio stations WKSD/WERT
2026-09-20 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.

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=thevwindependent.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=thevwindependent.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 thevwindependent.com 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
0%
articles with sections
28 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 1635 min at the median, 1968 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 thevwindependent.com 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 690 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does thevwindependent.com publish per day?

9 on a median day, measured across 45 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.