New Zealand public-policy research
Use RNZ endpoints to turn new zealand public-policy research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Follow RNZ’s public-service reporting with its national, Māori and Pacific editorial desks identified.
Extract New Zealand public-interest news, Māori and Pacific affairs, politics and climate from RNZ as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
9
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "RNZ",
"endpoint": "rnz-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/rnz/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract New Zealand public-interest news, Māori and Pacific affairs, politics and climate from RNZ as structured JSON.
Use RNZ endpoints to turn new zealand public-policy research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use RNZ endpoints to turn māori and pacific coverage monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use RNZ endpoints to turn climate journalism analysis into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live RNZ endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 9 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented RNZ endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
9 request parameters are documented across those RNZ endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 RNZ endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
RNZ endpoints document their error responses (400, 404 and 503) alongside the success schema, so a block, a rate limit, or a missing record comes back as a typed error rather than silently empty data.
5 hosted MCP tools back the RNZ endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/rnz/article
/rnz/author
/rnz/headlines
/rnz/news
/rnz/sections
Endpoint catalog
/rnz/articleReturns public RNZ news article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical rnz.co.nz/news/<section>/<id>/<slug> article URL. RNZ has no paywall, so the full body is returned.
MCP tool rnz_article
/rnz/authorReturns one RNZ reporter's public profile: name, role, bio, email, X/Twitter handle, photo, total story count, and the first page of their news stories.
MCP tool rnz_author
/rnz/headlinesReturns the latest RNZ (Radio New Zealand) stories for one section. `section` is required and takes one of 19 slugs such as `news`, `national`, `political`, `business`, `pacific`, `te-manu-korihi` or `weather`; others return a 400. Each item has its title, URL, summary and publication time. Smaller sections can carry items from earlier weeks, so check `published_at`.
MCP tool rnz_headlines
/rnz/newsReturns RNZ (Radio New Zealand) top stories from its all-news feed: title, article URL, summary and publication time in UTC. Takes no parameters. Lifestyle guides, audio programme pages and section hubs are left out, and article URLs use RNZ's current section names.
MCP tool rnz_news
/rnz/sectionsLists the 19 RNZ news sections that `rnz-headlines` accepts, such as `news`, `national`, `political`, `pacific` and `te-manu-korihi`. Each entry has a `slug`, a display `name` and the section's feed `url`. RNZ's programme-schedule and recipe feeds are not included.
MCP tool rnz_sections
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How to scrape RNZ
RNZ is New Zealand’s non-commercial public-service broadcaster. Its journalism includes Parliament, regional communities, Māori and Pacific affairs, business and climate, and its written news sits alongside a broader audio mission. The cataloged endpoints concern RNZ news articles and public news feeds. Preserve the publisher’s section labels so Māori or Pacific coverage is not buried in a generic national-news bucket, and distinguish a written article from an audio program outside this endpoint family.
Call /rnz/sections to find the available section RSS feeds, then use a returned choice in /rnz/headlines. Save the section name and URL to support comparison of national, Māori and Pacific coverage.
/rnz/news reads the public all-news RSS feed. Merge it with section results by canonical URL, keeping multiple editorial placements only when prominence is part of the analysis.
Use a canonical rnz.co.nz/news story URL with /rnz/article. RNZ news has no paywall in this endpoint. /rnz/author provides a reporter role, bio and first page of stories when the public profile exists.
When following a developing parliamentary or climate story, store the canonical URL and article metadata at each collection. A later feed placement should be joined to that story rather than assumed to be a new report.
FAQ
No. The documented article endpoint concerns RNZ news article URLs, and the section and all-news endpoints follow news feeds. Treat radio and podcast material as separate publisher surfaces.
They identify editorial coverage with its own communities and contexts. Combining those stories with an undifferentiated national feed can hide which desk originated the report.