VOA Swahili – Idhaa ya Kiswahili ya Sauti ya Amerika API, RSS and sitemap

Every article VOA Swahili – Idhaa ya Kiswahili ya Sauti ya Amerika publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 126 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

Swahili#10,970 by volume

Four ways to pull voaswahili.com

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

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and VOA Swahili – Idhaa ya Kiswahili ya Sauti ya Amerika headlines come back as JSON.

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

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 44 days. The busiest hour is 00:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

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

Publishing rhythm

When VOA Swahili – Idhaa ya Kiswahili ya Sauti ya Amerika actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 126 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

Languages

The site identifies itself under VOA Swahili – Idhaa ya Kiswahili ya Sauti ya Amerika, Voice of America — separate editions publishing under one domain.

Latest articles

The 5 most recent VOA Swahili – Idhaa ya Kiswahili ya Sauti ya Amerika articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

VOA Swahili Audio Tube

2026-08-06 00:00 UTC

Makundi - Afrika - Marekani - Afya - Hali ya HIV/Ukimwi Afrika - Uchaguzi Kenya 2013 - Kesi za Wakenya Mbele ya ICC - Fainali za Kombe la Afrika 2015 - Ziara ya Rais Obam

Kwa Undani

2026-08-05 00:00 UTC

Kwa Undani ni matangazo ya dakika 25 yanayochambua habari kwa undani zaidi na kumpa msikilizaji maelezo ya kina kuliko ilivyo kawaida kuhusu tukio au swala lililojitokeza

Jioni

2026-08-02 00:00 UTC

Matangazo ya saa nzima kuhusu habari za kutwa, ikiwa ni pamoja ripoti kutoka kwa waandishi wetu sehemu mbali mbali duniani na kote Afrika Mashariki na Kati, na vile vile

VOA Express

2026-07-31 00:00 UTC

VOA Express ni matangazo mapya yenye mwendo wa kasi yakiangalia habari mpya za mchana na maelezo ya maswala yanayohusu vijana na wanawake. Matangazo haya yanafuatilia hab

Je Nifanyeje?

2026-07-19 00:00 UTC

Je Nifanyeje? Maamuzi ya Afya na Kijamii kwa Vijana - Kipindi cha dakika 30 kinacholenga vijana kwa kufuatulia maisha ya vijana, hasa wasichana, kuwasaidia kufanya maamuz

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.voaswahili.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:

curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.voaswahili.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 VOA Swahili – Idhaa ya Kiswahili ya Sauti ya Amerika 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 1016 min at the median, 1137 minutes at the 90th percentile.

FAQ

Does VOA Swahili – Idhaa ya Kiswahili ya Sauti ya Amerika 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 126 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does VOA Swahili – Idhaa ya Kiswahili ya Sauti ya Amerika publish per day?

3 on a median day, measured across 44 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.