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UnHerd API, RSS and sitemap

Every article UnHerd publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 175 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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

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

Call the API

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

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=unherd.com&size=5"
175
articles indexed
0
in the last 30 days
4
median per day
1
languages
290 min
median crawl lag
08.06 → 27.07
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 43 days. The busiest hour is 23:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-06-08: 4 articles2026-06-09: 5 articles2026-06-10: 4 articles2026-06-11: 4 articles2026-06-12: 5 articles2026-06-14: 4 articles2026-06-15: 4 articles2026-06-16: 4 articles2026-06-17: 5 articles2026-06-18: 3 articles2026-06-19: 4 articles2026-06-21: 4 articles2026-06-22: 4 articles2026-06-23: 3 articles2026-06-24: 4 articles2026-06-25: 5 articles2026-06-26: 4 articles2026-06-28: 4 articles2026-06-29: 4 articles2026-06-30: 4 articles2026-07-01: 5 articles2026-07-02: 4 articles2026-07-03: 4 articles2026-07-05: 4 articles2026-07-06: 4 articles2026-07-07: 6 articles2026-07-08: 4 articles2026-07-09: 5 articles2026-07-10: 3 articles2026-07-12: 4 articles2026-07-13: 5 articles2026-07-14: 4 articles2026-07-15: 4 articles2026-07-16: 5 articles2026-07-17: 4 articles2026-07-19: 4 articles2026-07-20: 3 articles2026-07-21: 5 articles2026-07-22: 4 articles2026-07-23: 4 articles2026-07-24: 4 articles2026-07-26: 4 articles2026-07-27: 4 articles06-0806-1606-2407-0207-1007-1907-27
bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=unherd.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When UnHerd actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 175 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 00001: 00102: 00203: 10304: 00405: 00506: 00607: 10708: 30809: 00910: 11011: 11112: 01213: 01314: 01415: 01516: 01617: 11718: 01819: 01920: 02021: 02122: 02223: 17123
Mon: 32MonTue: 31TueWed: 30WedThu: 30ThuFri: 28FriSat: 0SatSun: 28Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 100% of their articles.

SectionArticles
Uncategorized179

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish179102.3%

Latest articles

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

What Elon gets wrong about England
2026-07-27 23:03 UTC · Uncategorized · Mary Harrington
When work follows you everywhere, how do you switch off? You can, if you wish, hide from your emails by spending £500 a night on a remote luxury retreat for the digitally
How Andy Burnham mogged Britain
2026-07-27 23:02 UTC · Uncategorized · Poppy Sowerby
Comrade, this long march is one hell of a slog. I speak of Andy Burnham’s social-media campaign, a relentless process of ingratiation with the credulous commenters of Tik
Will the cinema god forgive Nolan?
2026-07-27 23:01 UTC · Uncategorized · David Thomson
I held off on seeing The Odyssey. I wasn’t sure why. Maybe I was flinching from the thunder of publicity — crammed with promises of spectacle, the unspeakable and the mom
The Left’s war on anti-crime tech
2026-07-27 23:00 UTC · Uncategorized · Alicia Nieves
Xavier Bautista grew up in the largely working-class black and Latino community of The Port in Cambridge, Mass. During his life, Xavier watched as an influx of Harvard an
Trump’s tariff addiction
2026-07-26 23:03 UTC · Uncategorized · Wolfgang Munchau
In the 2002 movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the father of the bride claims that Windex, a US glass cleaning product, can cure all known medical conditions. I was reminded
Charli xcx’s death drive
2026-07-26 23:02 UTC · Uncategorized · Sarah Ditum
Charli xcx is having a death summer. Music, Fashion, Film — her first proper album since 2024’s season-defining Brat, and her second if you include her soundtrack to Emer
The political problem with cousin marriage
2026-07-26 23:01 UTC · Uncategorized · Malise Ruthven
On 1 July, the Swedish government formally outlawed first-cousin marriage, presenting the ban not simply as a measure to reduce inherited disorders but as protection agai
How Cuban politics infiltrated America
2026-07-26 23:00 UTC · Uncategorized · John Masko
Last week, the US Department of State issued a 100-page report titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism”. In the days since, many in the press have interpreted
The American disaster
2026-07-24 23:05 UTC · Uncategorized · Jonathan Sumption
In 1831, at the dawn of American democracy, the French political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville spent the best part of a year in the United States. His book Democracy in
The poet who invented Burnham’s North
2026-07-24 23:02 UTC · Uncategorized · Alex Niven
On Monday we said hello to Britain’s first born-and-bred Northern prime minister since Harold Wilson. It would be fair to say that Andy Burnham has not been shy in herald
Why we can’t outrun the Neanderthals
2026-07-24 23:01 UTC · Uncategorized · Ben Judah
To become a father is to be plunged into a world of stories. Dragons, tigers, talking bears — some of them half-remembered, from when they were read to me — every night b
Escape from Trad-Land
2026-07-24 23:00 UTC · Uncategorized · Louis Massett
Louis Massett Jul 25 2026 - 12:00am 8 mins In the town of St. Mary’s, Kan., a blanket party wasn’t as exciting as it might sound. St. Mary’s is the de facto US headquarte
The Democrats’ soul-healer
2026-07-23 23:47 UTC · Uncategorized · Sohrab Ahmari
“We’ve become such a technocratic party that we’ve stopped spending time truly analyzing the way people are feeling,” Chris Murphy, the Connecticut Democratic senator and
Inside Britain's DEI police force
2026-07-23 23:03 UTC · Uncategorized · Dominic Adler
Dominic Adler Jul 24 2026 - 12:03am 11 mins Andrew*, a detective sergeant in the Metropolitan Police, is telling me about a former trainee. “Before they join, direct-entr
The great Net Zero showdown
2026-07-23 23:02 UTC · Uncategorized · John Rapley
At first glance, the new Prime Minister’s choice of Miatta Fahnbulleh as energy secretary would appear to suggest more of the same: more Net Zero, less oil and gas. Fahnb
How Mayfair became an Emirate
2026-07-23 23:01 UTC · Uncategorized · Caroline Knowles
When I want to see what piles of money look like, I walk round Berkeley Square. First there are the car showrooms — Ferrari, Bentley, Porsche — ready to absorb sudden win
Don't fall for Project Smear, Mr Burnham
2026-07-22 23:03 UTC · Uncategorized · Yanis Varoufakis
In the lead-up to the Brexit referendum, Remainers deployed Project Fear to scare the living daylights out of anyone considering voting to Leave. Their statistical projec
Frankie goes to Downing Street
2026-07-22 23:02 UTC · Uncategorized · Sophie Heawood
On the day Andy Burnham became prime minister, my female friends had eyes only for his wife’s dress. The lilac Victoria Beckham gown that Marie-France van Heel wore to No

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=unherd.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=unherd.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 UnHerd marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

100%
dates from JSON-LD
100%
articles with a byline
100%
articles with sections
245 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 290 min at the median, 701 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does UnHerd 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 175 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does UnHerd publish per day?

4 on a median day, measured across 43 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.