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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. 267 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United StatesEnglish#7,370 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"
267
articles indexed
214
in the last 30 days
9
median per day
1
languages
1635 min
median crawl lag
31.07 → 05.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 30 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 articles07-3108-0508-1708-2208-2709-0109-05
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 267 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 2660001: 00102: 00203: 00304: 00405: 00506: 00607: 00708: 00809: 00910: 01011: 01112: 01213: 01314: 01415: 01516: 01617: 01718: 01819: 01920: 02021: 02122: 02223: 023
Mon: 61MonTue: 49TueWed: 39WedThu: 32ThuFri: 32FriSat: 24SatSun: 29Sun

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
enEnglish26699.6%

Latest articles

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

Baumle leads Raiders by Crestview
2026-09-05 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Bond set for man charged with murder
2026-09-05 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Kelly scores five TDs as Cougars win again
2026-09-05 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Performance planned at Brumback Library
2026-09-05 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Gov’t offices to close for Labor Day
2026-09-05 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Cooler temperatures expected for final days of fair
2026-09-05 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Rain at the fair…
2026-09-05 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Phony money used in mobile home sale
2026-09-05 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
EMA looking for storm damage info
2026-09-05 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Truck and Tractor pull…
2026-09-05 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
VWCO Sheriff’s activity log 9/3/2026
2026-09-04 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Football Friday Scoreboard Week No. 3
2026-09-04 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
The VW independent
2026-09-04 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
VWCO Sheriff’s activity log 9/2/2026
2026-09-03 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Elks Lodge holding annual Soccer Shoot
2026-09-03 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Liberty Township Trustees move meeting
2026-09-03 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Vantage construction project delay addressed by BOE
2026-09-03 00:00 UTC
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Ceremony planned at Eggerss Stadium
2026-09-03 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, 2032 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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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 267 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 30 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.