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WFAE 90.7 - Charlotte's NPR News Source API, RSS and sitemap

Every article WFAE 90.7 - Charlotte's NPR News Source publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 1,430 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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Four ways to pull wfae.org

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

JSON Search this publisher

Every article we hold from wfae.org, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

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

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and WFAE 90.7 - Charlotte's NPR News Source headlines come back as JSON.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.wfae.org&size=5"
1,430
articles indexed
540
in the last 30 days
16
median per day
1
languages
301 min
median crawl lag
09.06 → 07.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 88 days. The busiest hour is 00:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-06-09: 15 articles2026-06-10: 23 articles2026-06-11: 24 articles2026-06-12: 29 articles2026-06-13: 5 articles2026-06-14: 3 articles2026-06-15: 12 articles2026-06-16: 25 articles2026-06-17: 23 articles2026-06-18: 24 articles2026-06-19: 5 articles2026-06-20: 2 articles2026-06-21: 1 articles2026-06-22: 12 articles2026-06-23: 13 articles2026-06-24: 19 articles2026-06-25: 15 articles2026-06-26: 13 articles2026-06-27: 1 articles2026-06-28: 8 articles2026-06-29: 19 articles2026-06-30: 34 articles2026-07-01: 26 articles2026-07-02: 30 articles2026-07-03: 16 articles2026-07-04: 3 articles2026-07-05: 3 articles2026-07-06: 21 articles2026-07-07: 25 articles2026-07-08: 17 articles2026-07-09: 15 articles2026-07-10: 17 articles2026-07-11: 2 articles2026-07-13: 24 articles2026-07-14: 19 articles2026-07-15: 20 articles2026-07-16: 18 articles2026-07-17: 18 articles2026-07-18: 9 articles2026-07-19: 5 articles2026-07-20: 18 articles2026-07-21: 27 articles2026-07-22: 15 articles2026-07-23: 21 articles2026-07-24: 8 articles2026-07-25: 5 articles2026-07-26: 12 articles2026-07-27: 18 articles2026-07-28: 8 articles2026-07-29: 16 articles2026-07-30: 19 articles2026-07-31: 8 articles2026-08-01: 5 articles2026-08-02: 5 articles2026-08-03: 19 articles2026-08-04: 17 articles2026-08-05: 22 articles2026-08-06: 1 articles2026-08-08: 37 articles2026-08-09: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-10: 57 articles2026-08-11: 23 articles2026-08-12: 44 articles2026-08-13: 44 articles2026-08-14: 16 articles2026-08-15: 5 articles2026-08-16: 1 articles2026-08-17: 14 articles2026-08-18: 20 articles2026-08-19: 21 articles2026-08-20: 19 articles2026-08-21: 27 articles2026-08-22: 5 articles2026-08-23: 3 articles2026-08-24: 20 articles2026-08-25: 22 articles2026-08-26: 17 articles2026-08-27: 11 articles2026-08-28: 16 articles2026-08-29: 4 articles2026-08-30: 3 articles2026-08-31: 33 articles2026-09-01: 15 articles2026-09-02: 21 articles2026-09-03: 17 articles2026-09-04: 15 articles2026-09-06: 9 articles2026-09-07: 1 articles06-0906-2307-0707-2208-0508-2009-0309-07

The 1 hatched days are gaps in the upstream news archive, not quiet days at WFAE 90.7 - Charlotte's NPR News Source: the whole corpus dips on those dates. They are excluded from the median above.

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

Publishing rhythm

When WFAE 90.7 - Charlotte's NPR News Source actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 1,430 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 1460001: 80102: 40203: 50304: 1390405: 510506: 170607: 800708: 750809: 780910: 1011011: 621112: 781213: 661314: 801415: 1051516: 1451617: 1011718: 371819: 181920: 82021: 142122: 92223: 323
Mon: 268MonTue: 263TueWed: 284WedThu: 258ThuFri: 188FriSat: 83SatSun: 86Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 60% of their articles.

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish1,430100.0%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent WFAE 90.7 - Charlotte's NPR News Source articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

What’s up with mail-in voting in NC in 2026?
2026-09-07 03:17 UTC · Politics · Sarah Michels; Carolina Public Press
Answers to frequently asked questions about mail-in voting in North Carolina, which gets underway Sept. 4, the earliest in the nation.
The price of diesel is showing up in the price of almost everything
2026-09-06 17:06 UTC · United States & World · Stephan Bisaha
Diesel has hit a record high. Stephan Bisaha visits an Alabama truck stop to talk with drivers and business owners about how high prices are changing what they spend and
A trucker explains what record diesel prices mean for his business
2026-09-06 17:06 UTC · United States & World · Joel Rose; Henry Larson
Monte Wiederhold runs a trucking company in northwest Ohio. He explains how problems overseas affect businesses at home.
Shipping companies are putting sails back on cargo ships
2026-09-06 17:06 UTC · World · Henry Larson
One of the world's largest logistics companies plans to fit one of its ships with a strange type of sail, the latest in a small but growing number of cleaner sailing ship
Bad news about ticks: cold weather may not stop them
2026-09-06 17:06 UTC · Health · Pien Huang; Joel Rose
Ticks and the diseases they carry are a growing problem nationwide. As tick season ends, a closer look at what researchers are learning about how ticks survive and spread
Meet the alien math-rock duo selling out shows across the U.S.
2026-09-06 17:06 UTC · Daniel Ofman; Joel Rose; Sarah Robbins;
Angine de Poitrine wears giant masks, speaks an alien language and plays wildly complicated math rock. Manager Sebastien Collin talks about the rise of the enigmatic musi
Cineplexity: The movies that tried to make sense of 9/11
2026-09-06 17:06 UTC · Arts & Culture · Adam Raney; Marc Rivers; Andrew Limbong;
Over the past quarter century the events of 9/11 have been reflected in direct and indirect ways in movies.
What Russia and China learned from America after 9/11
2026-09-06 17:06 UTC · World · Vincent Ni; Sarah Robbins; Joel Rose; Da
Journalists Mikhail Zygar and Cindy Yu explain how the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan helped reshape Russia and China's ambitions.
Author Emily Wilson on how she brings Homer's ancient poems back to life
2026-09-06 17:06 UTC · Arts & Culture · Henry Larson; Sarah Robbins; Joel Rose
Classicist Emily Wilson talks about her new book, 'Crossing the Wine Dark Sea,' a series of essays reflecting on translation and classic writing in the modern world.
Whatever happened to kindness? Spoiler alert: Our readers prove it's alive and well
2026-09-06 04:44 UTC · Health · Laurel Dalrymple
We asked readers to share stories about a moment of kindness involving a stranger. Here are some of their heartwarming anecdotes.
Harrison's Law and the fight to end hazing at colleges
2026-09-04 17:05 UTC · Chris Jones
Nearly two decades after the hazing death of 19-year-old Harrison Kowiak at Lenoir-Rhyne University, North Carolina has enacted Harrison’s Law, expanding the definition o
This week in science: Archaeology fakes, hurricanes and lizards, and heat health effects
2026-09-04 17:01 UTC · Science & Environment · Regina G Barber
NPR's Regina Barber and Nate Rott talk about a new way to spot archaeological fakes, how hurricanes may have influenced lizard evolution and the health effects of extreme
First Friday Arts: Live music, shows and 9/11 tributes in Charlotte this September
2026-09-04 15:25 UTC · Arts & Culture · Nick de la Canal
September brings a packed arts calendar to Charlotte, with major concerts, theater, festivals and performances marking the 25th anniversary of 9/11. WFAE's First Friday A
Salvadorans face uncertainty as protected status set to expire Tuesday
2026-09-04 13:30 UTC · Race & Equity · Julian Berger
Federal Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans is expected to expire Tuesday, which would place thousands in the Charlotte area under threat of deportation.
Mecklenburg reports three human cases of West Nile virus
2026-09-04 13:21 UTC · Health · Kenneth Lee Jr
Mecklenburg County Public Health has confirmed three human cases of symptomatic West Nile virus as officials report an increase in positive cases of the mosquito-borne il
Mecklenburg County nears end of property revaluation process
2026-09-04 13:18 UTC · Politics · Kenneth Lee Jr
Mecklenburg County officials say they are nearing completion of the county’s property revaluation process, which updates the market value of all property in the county.
UNC and Duke herbaria to merge in Chapel Hill, two years after Duke announced plant collection cannot stay on campus
2026-09-04 12:58 UTC · Education · Daneen Khan
Together, the UNC and Duke collections encompass about 1.7 million specimens of plants, fungi and other organic material. The collection will be the third-largest univers
N.C. DOT: I-77 toll lane design has cost nearly $70 million
2026-09-04 11:58 UTC · Politics · Steve Harrison
Local governments that don't back the controversial toll lanes could have to repay the money

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=www.wfae.org&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=www.wfae.org&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 WFAE 90.7 - Charlotte's NPR News Source marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

90%
dates from JSON-LD
88%
articles with a byline
60%
articles with sections
205 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 301 min at the median, 2227 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does WFAE 90.7 - Charlotte's NPR News 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 1,430 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does WFAE 90.7 - Charlotte's NPR News Source publish per day?

16 on a median day, measured across 88 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.