News from .fr domains
293,566 news articles published under .fr domains. Unlike country, the domain zone is observed rather than inferred.
The busiest publisher in this slice is unidivers.fr with 102,815 articles, 35.0% of the total, followed by actu.fr, www.grazia.fr. By language it splits into French (288,983), English (1,841), Italian (272) and 3 more. Daily volume averages about 7,505 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 12,105 on 2026-09-04.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?tld=fr&date=today&sort=date&size=20"No API key, no signup, no quota. The response carries the headline, description,
publisher, publication time and the original URL for every article, and the full body text
if you ask for it with full_text=true.
Count it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?tld=fr&top=20"Returns exactly the breakdown shown on this page: which publishers, which languages, and how the volume splits across the last 90 days. About 200 tokens, which makes it the cheapest way for an agent to decide whether this slice is worth reading.
Compare with country = France: the domain zone is observed, the country is inferred, and the two do not match exactly. Publishers in France also use .com, and .fr is sometimes used from outside France.
Latest from this slice
The newest articles matching this filter at the time this page was generated. Headlines link to the publisher — we index and search, we do not host.
Who publishes it
The 25 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
unidivers.fr | 102,815 | 35.0% | query |
actu.fr | 6,656 | 2.3% | query |
www.grazia.fr | 5,327 | 1.8% | query |
www.football365.fr | 5,208 | 1.8% | query |
entrevue.fr | 5,125 | 1.7% | query |
www.melty.fr | 4,273 | 1.5% | query |
www.lagazettefrance.fr | 4,133 | 1.4% | query |
www.butfootballclub.fr | 4,117 | 1.4% | query |
www.peaches.fr | 4,026 | 1.4% | query |
www.pleinevie.fr | 3,992 | 1.4% | query |
www.closermag.fr | 3,945 | 1.3% | query |
www.mariefrance.fr | 3,936 | 1.3% | query |
www.ladepeche.fr | 3,578 | 1.2% | query |
www.football.fr | 3,438 | 1.2% | query |
www.telestar.fr | 3,418 | 1.2% | query |
www.sudouest.fr | 3,152 | 1.1% | query |
www.autoplus.fr | 3,008 | 1.0% | query |
www.foot-sur7.fr | 2,960 | 1.0% | query |
www.lamarseillaise.fr | 2,824 | 1.0% | query |
www.midilibre.fr | 2,516 | 0.9% | query |
www.cnews.fr | 2,320 | 0.8% | query |
www.welovetennis.fr | 2,130 | 0.7% | query |
www.lefigaro.fr | 2,127 | 0.7% | query |
mesinfos.fr | 2,008 | 0.7% | query |
www.lindependant.fr | 1,938 | 0.7% | query |
Countries behind .fr
The zone is a fact; the country is inferred from it and from other signals. Where they disagree, this table shows it.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| FR | France | 292,585 | 99.7% |
| BE | Belgium | 425 | 0.1% |
| ES | Spain | 212 | 0.1% |
| LB | Lebanon | 200 | 0.1% |
| MG | MG | 105 | 0.0% |
| TR | Turkey | 41 | 0.0% |
Languages under .fr
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| fr | French | 288,983 | 98.4% |
| en | English | 1,841 | 0.6% |
| it | Italian | 272 | 0.1% |
| he | Hebrew | 97 | 0.0% |
| es | Spanish | 42 | 0.0% |
| de | German | 4 | 0.0% |
Volume by day
How much this slice produces daily. Useful for sizing a job before you run it, and for spotting whether a spike is real or an artefact of one publisher.
| Day | Articles | |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07 | 6,380 | |
2026-09-06 | 7,550 | |
2026-09-05 | 7,651 | |
2026-09-04 | 12,105 | |
2026-09-03 | 8,549 | |
2026-09-02 | 7,188 | |
2026-09-01 | 5,481 | |
2026-08-31 | 5,133 | |
2026-08-30 | 5,252 | |
2026-08-29 | 11,996 | |
2026-08-28 | 9,094 | |
2026-08-27 | 8,976 | |
2026-08-26 | 7,289 | |
2026-08-25 | 4,605 |
Combine with other filters
# France, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?tld=fr&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# France, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?tld=fr&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# France, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?tld=fr&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"