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The Source API, RSS and sitemap

Every article The Source publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 183 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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Four ways to pull washu.edu

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

JSON Search this publisher

Every article we hold from washu.edu, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

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

Call the API

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

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=source.washu.edu&size=5"
183
articles indexed
64
in the last 30 days
3
median per day
1
languages
710 min
median crawl lag
08.06 → 04.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 57 days. The busiest hour is 16:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-06-08: 5 articles2026-06-09: 3 articles2026-06-10: 3 articles2026-06-11: 7 articles2026-06-12: 4 articles2026-06-15: 11 articles2026-06-16: 2 articles2026-06-17: 3 articles2026-06-18: 4 articles2026-06-19: 2 articles2026-06-22: 4 articles2026-06-23: 4 articles2026-06-24: 3 articles2026-06-25: 5 articles2026-06-29: 1 articles2026-06-30: 3 articles2026-07-01: 1 articles2026-07-02: 2 articles2026-07-06: 3 articles2026-07-07: 3 articles2026-07-08: 1 articles2026-07-09: 4 articles2026-07-10: 2 articles2026-07-13: 1 articles2026-07-14: 5 articles2026-07-15: 3 articles2026-07-16: 3 articles2026-07-17: 2 articles2026-07-20: 3 articles2026-07-21: 3 articles2026-07-22: 2 articles2026-07-23: 2 articles2026-07-24: 1 articles2026-07-27: 2 articles2026-07-28: 2 articles2026-07-29: 4 articles2026-07-30: 5 articles2026-07-31: 2 articles2026-08-03: 3 articles2026-08-04: 1 articles2026-08-13: 5 articles2026-08-14: 3 articles2026-08-17: 4 articles2026-08-18: 8 articles2026-08-19: 1 articles2026-08-20: 5 articles2026-08-21: 3 articles2026-08-24: 2 articles2026-08-25: 3 articles2026-08-26: 6 articles2026-08-27: 3 articles2026-08-28: 4 articles2026-08-31: 3 articles2026-09-01: 3 articles2026-09-02: 7 articles2026-09-03: 2 articles2026-09-04: 2 articles06-0806-1907-0607-1707-3008-2009-0209-04
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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=source.washu.edu&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When The Source actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 183 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 00001: 00102: 00203: 00304: 00405: 70506: 00607: 00708: 00809: 00910: 41011: 01112: 01213: 121314: 221415: 331516: 391617: 101718: 281819: 111920: 102021: 82122: 42223: 023
Mon: 42MonTue: 40TueWed: 34WedThu: 47ThuFri: 25FriSat: 0SatSun: 0Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 99% of their articles.

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish188102.7%

Latest articles

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

Kim-Yu wins Newcombe dissertation fellowship
2026-09-04 14:30 UTC · Arts & Culture · Liam Otten
Naomi Kim, a doctoral candidate in English and a Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellow in American culture studies, both in WashU Arts & Sciences, has won a Newcombe Doctoral Disser
Mellnick, Itani named to radiology senior leadership positions
2026-09-04 14:03 UTC · Appointments & Promotions · Brittney Wheeler
Vincent Mellnick, MD, has been named senior vice chair and division director of academic practice and Malak Itani, MD, has been named section chief of abdominal imaging.
Key path to Alzheimer’s-like brain damage starts outside the brain
2026-09-03 19:29 UTC · Alzheimer's · Brittney Wheeler; Mark Reynolds
WashU Medicine researchers have found in mice that blocking immune cells in the body's lymph nodes significantly reduces neurodegeneration. The discovery reveals a previo
Barmash elected president of National Association of Professors of Hebrew
2026-09-03 16:30 UTC · Awards & Notables · Liam Otten
Pamela Barmash, interim chair of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies in WashU Arts & Sciences, has been elected president of the National Association of Professor
Assistance needed in Aisle 1: What Missouri WIC families face
2026-09-02 20:58 UTC · Health & Society · Deb Parker
WashU Bursky Public Health and Brown School teams surveyed nearly 2,900 participants and co-developed retailer training to boost nutrition access during pregnancy and ear
Carolina Caycedo on ‘Growing Deep Roots’
2026-09-02 18:30 UTC · Art & Design · Liam Otten
“Growing Deep Roots,” a one-person show by artist Carolina Caycedo, will open Sept. 9 at the WashU Kemper Art Museum. In this Q&A, Caycedo discusses her work, her interes
'The Color Purple' opens Black Rep's 50th season
2026-09-02 18:25 UTC · Arts & Culture · Liam Otten
The Black Rep will launch its 50th anniversary season Sept. 11 with the Tony Award-winning musical "The Color Purple" in WashU's Edison Theatre.
WashU Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Transplant Center perform breakthrough robotic liver-kidney transplant
2026-09-02 16:43 UTC · Medicine · Brittney Wheeler; Mark Reynolds
Adeel Khan, MD, a professor of surgery at WashU Medicine, and Jessica Lindemann, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of surgery, worked together to perform the combined surge
Coonce named to new Harris-Stowe Athletic Hall of Fame
2026-09-02 13:35 UTC · Awards & Notables · Diane Toroian Keaggy
Angela Coonce, chief of the WashU Police Department, will be inducted as an inaugural member of the new Harris-Stowe State University Athletic Hall of Fame. She was selec
Grant funds hybrid system that could spur vast energy improvements to computing
2026-09-02 13:15 UTC · Artificial Intelligence · Leah Shaffer
With a grant from the National Science Foundation, WashU computer engineer Shantanu Chakrabartty will design hybrid neuromorphic and quantum computing systems that could
Washington People: Hester Blum
2026-09-02 05:01 UTC · Arts & Culture · Kelly Wiese Niemeyer; Jenny Bird
Hester Blum follows literary questions beyond the archive and into the environments that shaped them. A leading scholar of environmental humanities, Blum is the Lynne Coo
WashU faculty receive promotions
2026-09-01 22:01 UTC · Appointments & Promotions · Brittney Wheeler
During the 2026 fiscal year, a number of faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis were promoted from associate professor with tenure to full professor.
Leading the Law Review: A conversation with editor-in-chief Caleb Rogers
2026-09-01 18:30 UTC · Campus & Community · Neil Schoenherr
For Caleb Rogers, serving as 2026-2027 editor-in-chief of the Washington University Law Review is both a leadership opportunity and a chance to help shape the scholarship
Sawyer Seminar Lecture Series to launch Sept. 10
2026-09-01 13:15 UTC · Cultural Studies · Liam Otten
The Center for the Humanities and the Department of African and African American Studies, both in WashU Arts & Sciences, will launch a yearlong Sawyer Seminar on “Black S
Ciesielski appointed Joint Commission Presidential Fellow
2026-08-31 15:00 UTC · Awards & Notables · Brittney Wheeler; William Morris
Thomas Ciesielski, MD, an associate professor in the John T. Milliken Department of Medicine at WashU Medicine, has been named the 2026–27 Presidential Fellow in Healthca
Shake it off
2026-08-31 14:05 UTC · Climate & Environment · Leah Shaffer
Anti-fouling materials being developed at Washington University in St. Louis protect against slimy incursions in wet environments from the ocean to the human body.
Expanded Frick Initiatives move civic research into practice
2026-08-31 05:01 UTC · Advancement · Sara Savat
The gift, combined with a long-term financial commitment from the university, will support programs and grants advancing civil discourse, free and open markets, free spee
WashU Olin Business launches five new MBA scholarships
2026-08-28 19:34 UTC · Academics · Brittney Wheeler
Beginning Sept. 1, WashU Olin Business School will launch five signature MBA scholarships in high-impact areas for the school.

Harvest it all

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

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=source.washu.edu&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:

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=source.washu.edu&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 Source 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
99%
articles with sections
97 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 710 min at the median, 1727 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does The Source 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 183 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does The Source publish per day?

3 on a median day, measured across 57 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.