Irish policy monitoring
Use RTÉ endpoints to turn irish policy monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Collect public RTÉ News stories without confusing the news site with RTÉ’s player, radio or sport products.
Extract Irish national affairs, regional reporting, politics, business and world news from RTÉ News as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "RTÉ",
"endpoint": "rte-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/rte/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract Irish national affairs, regional reporting, politics, business and world news from RTÉ News as structured JSON.
Use RTÉ endpoints to turn irish policy monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
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Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live RTÉ endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented RTÉ endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those RTÉ endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 RTÉ endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
RTÉ endpoints document their error responses (400, 404, 429 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 RTÉ endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/rte/article
/rte/author
/rte/headlines
/rte/news
/rte/sections
Endpoint catalog
/rte/articleReturns public RTÉ News article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical rte.ie/news article URL. RTÉ News articles are free to read; paywalled is omitted.
MCP tool rte_article
/rte/authorReturns an RTÉ News author's profile by canonical `url` (`https://www.rte.ie/author/<id>-<slug>/`, the author link on an article byline): name, headshot, `role` and recent articles, each with title, URL, summary, publication time and image. `role` is the job title the page shows, for example Political Correspondent, and is omitted when there is none.
MCP tool rte_author
/rte/headlinesReturns the latest RTÉ News stories for one section. `section` is required and takes one of 29 slugs such as `ireland`, `world`, `politics`, `dublin`, `courts` or `nuacht` (Irish-language); others return a 400. Each item has its title, URL, summary, publication time and image. Small sections like `science` return only a handful of items.
MCP tool rte_headlines
/rte/newsReturns fresh RTÉ News top stories from its public news feed. Scope is RTÉ News (rte.ie/news) only, not the RTÉ Player, radio, sport or entertainment sections.
MCP tool rte_news
/rte/sectionsLists the 29 RTÉ News section hubs that `rte-headlines` accepts, such as `ireland`, `politics`, `dublin`, `ukraine` and `investigations-unit`. Each entry has a `slug`, a display `name` and the feed `url`. The list is curated to hubs with their own article feed, so narrower topic pages are not included.
MCP tool rte_sections
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How to scrape RTÉ
RTÉ is Ireland’s public-service broadcaster, and RTÉ News covers domestic policy, regional events, business and international affairs. The catalog’s news endpoint is deliberately scoped to rte.ie/news. It does not stand for everything RTÉ publishes across the Player, radio, sport or entertainment services. Use the news section inventory to distinguish Irish regional and national stories, and retain canonical article URLs for source checking.
Read /rte/sections and request a returned section through /rte/headlines. Keep the source section rather than converting all domestic items to a single Ireland label.
/rte/news supplies fresh top stories from the public RTÉ News feed. Record collection time when comparing what leads the service; the feed can change even if an article URL stays stable.
Pass a canonical rte.ie/news article URL to /rte/article for public text. Use /rte/author with a supported canonical byline URL for the author’s role, headshot and recent work. Do not pass RTÉ Player or sport URLs as news articles.
FAQ
The documented news article endpoint reads free public pages and omits a paywalled field. Keep any separately licensed broadcast content outside the article corpus.
No. It is scoped to RTÉ News on rte.ie/news. Radio, Player, sport and entertainment material need their own source definitions and should not be inferred from this feed.