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

United StatesEnglish#13,051 by volume

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.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=source.washu.edu&size=5"
205
articles indexed
76
in the last 30 days
3
median per day
1
languages
792 min
median crawl lag
22.06 → 18.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 55 days. The busiest hour is 15:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-06-22: 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 articles2026-09-09: 11 articles2026-09-10: 5 articles2026-09-11: 5 articles2026-09-14: 1 articles2026-09-15: 3 articles2026-09-16: 5 articles2026-09-17: 4 articles2026-09-18: 4 articles06-2207-0707-2007-3108-2109-0309-18
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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 205 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 00001: 00102: 00203: 00304: 00405: 90506: 00607: 00708: 00809: 00910: 01011: 01112: 01213: 141314: 231415: 321516: 291617: 121718: 251819: 121920: 122021: 82122: 62223: 023
Mon: 27MonTue: 38TueWed: 44WedThu: 45ThuFri: 28FriSat: 0SatSun: 0Sun

Sections

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

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish18288.8%

Latest articles

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

WashU Libraries announces new digital collections platform
2026-09-18 16:00 UTC · Academics · Diane Toroian Keaggy
WashU Libraries Digital Collections will make it easier for students, faculty, researchers and other patrons to identify and access rare and historically valuable collect
Obituary: Gaylyn Studlar, celebrated film scholar, 73
2026-09-18 14:27 UTC · Obituaries · Liam Otten
Film scholar and theorist Gaylyn Studlar, the David May Distinguished University Professor Emerita in the Humanities and former director of the Film and Media Studies pro
WashU Expert: FTC settlements may not curb pharmacy benefit managers
2026-09-18 14:15 UTC · Humanities & Society · Neil Schoenherr
The FTC’s deals with major drug middlemen may not do enough to lower what patients and employers pay for prescription drugs, said Rachel Sachs, a professor of law at Wash
Clearing the way for renewable carbon fiber production
2026-09-18 13:30 UTC · Chemistry · Leah Shaffer
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a process to develop renewable carbon fiber that meets the standards of the automobile industry, a key st
WashU Expert: Everyone has a role in suicide prevention
2026-09-17 19:54 UTC · Humanities & Society · Neil Schoenherr
September is Suicide Prevention Month, and WashU expert Ryan Lindsay is emphasizing a simple message: You don’t have to be a mental health professional to help someone wh
US education secretary visits WashU
2026-09-17 15:43 UTC · Campus & Facilities · Erika Ebsworth-Goold
As part of her travel to universities across the country, U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon visited WashU Sept. 16.
Malone, Stark named inaugural Ryan Institute faculty scholars
2026-09-17 14:15 UTC · Health & Society · Deb Parker
Sara Malone and Lindsay Stark, both of WashU Bursky Public Health, become inaugural faculty scholars of the Ryan Institute for Interdisciplinary Health Solutions.Their pr
New Transcend Initiative to address mycobacteria threats
2026-09-17 14:01 UTC · Health & Society · Erika Ebsworth-Goold
A new WashU Transcend Initiative seeks to address and fight life-threatening mycobacterial infections.
Learfield Directors’ Cup Festival to celebrate WashU Bears
2026-09-16 22:30 UTC · Athletics · Diane Toroian Keaggy
WashU will celebrate its first Learfield Directors’ Cup with a festival and a women’s soccer game on Wednesday, Sept. 23. Athletic Director Anthony Azama says the honor r
Gut microbiome features predict devastating disease affecting preemies
2026-09-16 21:24 UTC · Medicine · Brittney Wheeler; Marta Wegorzewska
WashU Medicine researchers found that bacteria-infecting viruses and bacterial antibiotic resistance genes in the gut microbiomes of premature babies play an important ro
Hotchner Festival highlights WashU playwrights
2026-09-16 19:17 UTC · Arts & Culture · Liam Otten
Three new plays by Chinonso Anyanwu, Anna Schwartz and Frauke Thielecke will receive world premiere staged readings Sept. 19 and 20 as part of the 2026 A.E. Hotchner Play
Holtzman receives Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship
2026-09-16 15:30 UTC · Alzheimer's · Brittney Wheeler
David M. Holtzman, MD, of WashU Medicine, was recognized by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for impactful mentorship of future scientists.
University to retire Robert J. Terry Lecture, rename professorship
2026-09-16 05:01 UTC · Campus & Community · Kelly Wiese Niemeyer
Washington University in St. Louis will retire the Robert J. Terry Lecture and rename the Robert J. Terry Professorship, following approval by the Board of Trustees. The
WashU Expert: Finding a job in the AI era
2026-09-15 22:01 UTC · Artificial Intelligence · Diane Toroian Keaggy
As artificial intelligence reshapes job applications, WashU career expert Casey Jenkerson advises job seekers to use authentic language, build networks early and focus on
Pregnancy nutrition trial in Ecuador improves fetal brain growth
2026-09-15 17:01 UTC · Health & Society · Deb Parker
WashU researcher Lora Iannotti and colleagues tested whether a diverse diet inspired by ancestral eating patterns could support maternal nutrition and fetal development.
WashU Expert: American parents need comprehensive work-family policy
2026-09-15 13:15 UTC · Humanities & Society · Sara Savat
A reported proposal by Vice President JD Vance redirecting childcare subsidies to married couples with a stay-at-home parent will not address fundamental challenges in th
Mitreva receives award for parasite research
2026-09-14 14:15 UTC · Medicine · Brittney Wheeler
WashU Medicine researcher Makedonka Mitreva was honored with the Ward Medal from the American Society of Parasitologists for her use of genetics and genomics to understan
Bechara awarded APPAM fellowship
2026-09-11 18:51 UTC · Awards & Notables · Neil Schoenherr; Myra Lopez
Saria Bechara, a doctoral student in social work at the WashU Brown School, has been named a 2026 Excellence, Equity and Inclusion Fellow by the Association for Public Po

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
96 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 792 min at the median, 1752 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 205 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 55 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.