Melbourne regional intelligence
Use The Age endpoints to turn melbourne regional intelligence into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
The Age is Nine Entertainment's Melbourne newspaper. Follow Victoria, Melbourne, national, business, culture, and sports desks through structured public feeds and article records for Melbourne regional intelligence.
Extract Victoria and Melbourne reporting on politics, business, culture, sport, and investigations from The Age with structured article, section, headline.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "The Age",
"endpoint": "theage-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/theage/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract Victoria and Melbourne reporting on politics, business, culture, sport, and investigations from The Age with structured article, section, headline.
Use The Age endpoints to turn melbourne regional intelligence into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use The Age endpoints to turn the age section and headline tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use The Age endpoints to turn article and byline research for victorian policy and local-market researchers into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live The Age endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented The Age endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those The Age endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 The Age endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
The Age 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 The Age endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/theage/article
/theage/author
/theage/headlines
/theage/news
/theage/sections
Endpoint catalog
/theage/articleReturns one The Age article's public metadata and the body paragraphs an anonymous visitor's page request is served, from a canonical article URL. The Age runs a metered subscription paywall; the response reports it with is_accessible_for_free (the page's own declaration), paywalled (the page marks the story as subscriber content), and is_truncated (the page served a shortened preview, or no body at all, instead of the full story). Paywalls are never bypassed and body text is never fabricated. Video-only pages are rejected with a 400.
MCP tool theage_article
/theage/authorReturns an Age journalist's public profile -- name, short biography, headshot, contact email and social links where published -- plus their recent stories, from a canonical https://www.theage.com.au/by/<name>-<id> URL.
MCP tool theage_author
/theage/headlinesReturns the current stories for one The Age section: title, canonical URL, summary, author, publication time, and image where the section lists them. section must be one of the slugs returned by /theage/sections; any other value is rejected with a 400 before The Age is contacted.
MCP tool theage_headlines
/theage/newsReturns The Age's current "Latest News" public RSS feed: each story's title, canonical URL, summary, author, publication time, and lead image.
MCP tool theage_news
/theage/sectionsLists every The Age section accepted by /theage/headlines (96 sections from the site's own section menu), each with its slug, display name, and public section-front URL.
MCP tool theage_sections
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How to scrape The Age
The Age is Nine Entertainment's Melbourne newspaper, reporting on Victoria and Melbourne alongside national politics, business, investigations, culture, and sport. For Australian policy research, the distinction between a Victorian measure and a federal decision is central. Its regional and topic feeds provide candidate stories, while the article body provides the jurisdiction, institutions, and dates needed for dependable classification.
Call /theage/sections to inspect the publisher's current taxonomy. Map Melbourne, Victoria, national, business, and sport sections before collecting. A city transport story should not be grouped automatically with federal infrastructure policy.
Use /theage/headlines for a selected section and /theage/news for the broader current stream. Use a focused headline feed to follow a Victorian issue over time, saving the original section and collection timestamp with each story.
Pass a canonical public URL to /theage/article and use /theage/author for the named contributor when available. Retrieve the article and reporter details, then identify the authority or organization involved from the text. Keep later updates connected to the original story URL.
Deduplicate stories by canonical URL, keep the collection date and publisher section, and retain the article's original publication time. For Melbourne regional intelligence, compare like editorial formats and geographic scopes rather than treating every item in the latest feed as equivalent.
FAQ
Yes. Begin with Melbourne and Victoria coverage, then read individual stories for the suburb, council, agency, or statewide body involved. The publisher's section helps discovery but does not replace article-level geographic tagging.
Retain the source category, then verify the responsible institution in the full article. Similar topics such as housing or transport can involve both levels of government, so avoid assigning jurisdiction from the headline alone.