Website Launches Feeds — RSS & JSON

Base Endpoints

Copyhttps://websitelaunches.com/feeds/sites.rss

Copyhttps://websitelaunches.com/feeds/sites.json

Both endpoints accept the same query parameters (below). We send ETag, Last-Modified, and Cache-Control: max-age=300.

Query Parameters

• time: today, past-week, past-month, or YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. 2025-09-01).
• l1, l2, l3: category labels (human labels), e.g. l1=Technology & Software, l2=AI Tools.
  Adult & Gambling is excluded by default. To include it, set l1=Adult & Gambling.
• country: ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 (e.g. US).
• region: abbreviation (e.g. CA for California, TX for Texas). This matches the region codes we display in facets.
• city: free text from our detections (e.g. Los Angeles).
• sort: launch_desc (newest) or votes_desc (trending).
• p: 1-based page number.
• page size: fixed at 500 items per page (no limit parameter).

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Examples

Copyhttps://websitelaunches.com/feeds/sites.rss?time=today

Copyhttps://websitelaunches.com/feeds/sites.rss?time=past-week&country=US&sort=votes_desc

Copyhttps://websitelaunches.com/feeds/sites.rss?time=2025-09-01&l1=Technology%20%26%20Software&l2=AI%20Tools

Copyhttps://websitelaunches.com/feeds/sites.rss?time=past-week&l1=Adult%20%26%20Gambling

Copyhttps://websitelaunches.com/feeds/sites.json?time=past-month&country=US&region=CA&city=Los%20Angeles

Copyhttps://websitelaunches.com/feeds/sites.rss?time=past-week&p=2

RSS Shape

RSS 2.0, UTF-8, sanitized titles (ASCII-fallback for maximum reader compatibility). Human-readable HTML lives in <description> (CDATA).

<rss version="2.0">
  <channel>
    <title>New Websites — Today</title>
    <link>https://websitelaunches.com</link>
    <description>Newest websites today.</description>
    ...
    <item>
      <title>example.com - Example Site Title</title>
      <link>https://websitelaunches.com/site/example.com</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">wl-site-123</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 21:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[ ... HTML summary ... ]]></description>
      <category>Technology & Software</category>
      ...
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>

JSON Shape

Flat list with key fields mirrored from the site detail and index pages.

{
  "feed": {
    "title": "New Websites — Today",
    "self": "https://websitelaunches.com/feeds/sites.json?time=today",
    "link": "https://websitelaunches.com"
  },
  "items": [
    {
      "id": 123,
      "domain": "example.com",
      "detail_url": "https://websitelaunches.com/site/example.com",
      "external_url": "https://example.com/",
      "site_title": "Example Site Title",
      "site_description": "Short summary...",
      "launched_at": "2025-09-30T21:12:00Z",
      "upvotes": 5,
      "downvotes": 0,
      "comments": 2,
      "l1": "Technology & Software",
      "l2": "AI Tools",
      "l3": null,
      "country": "US",
      "region": "CA",
      "city": "Los Angeles",
      "platform": "WordPress",
      "thumb": "https://websitelaunches.com/website_thumbs/abcd.png",
      "favicon": "https://websitelaunches.com/website_favicons/abcd"
    }
  ],
  "page": 1,
  "page_size": 500,
  "total": 12345
}

Notes & Best Practices

• Caching: Please leverage ETag, Last-Modified, and Cache-Control.
• Titles: Non-ASCII titles may be ASCII-transliterated or omitted for maximum reader compatibility.
• Rate limits: ≤ 1 request per 1 minutes per unique query is appreciated.
• Sensitive categories: Hidden by default; include only by passing l1=Adult & Gambling.
• Page size: Fixed at 500 per page (use p to paginate).
• Attribution: Please link to the item’s Details/Discussion page when embedding.

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