Wales regional monitoring
Use WalesOnline endpoints to turn wales regional monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
WalesOnline is Reach plc's Welsh news site. Follow Wales, Cardiff, local communities, politics, rugby, traffic, and sport through structured public feeds and article records for Wales regional monitoring.
Extract Wales local news, Cardiff, Welsh politics, sport, traffic, and community reporting from WalesOnline with structured article, section, headline, news.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
10
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "WalesOnline",
"endpoint": "walesonline-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/walesonline/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract Wales local news, Cardiff, Welsh politics, sport, traffic, and community reporting from WalesOnline with structured article, section, headline, news.
Use WalesOnline endpoints to turn wales regional monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use WalesOnline endpoints to turn walesonline section and headline tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use WalesOnline endpoints to turn article and byline research for welsh local, public-sector, and community researchers into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live WalesOnline endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 10 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented WalesOnline endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
10 request parameters are documented across those WalesOnline endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 WalesOnline endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
WalesOnline 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 WalesOnline endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/walesonline/article
/walesonline/author
/walesonline/headlines
/walesonline/news
/walesonline/sections
Endpoint catalog
/walesonline/articleReturns public WalesOnline article metadata (including the section) and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL, including live blogs. Photo-gallery URLs are rejected.
MCP tool walesonline_article
/walesonline/authorReturns one WalesOnline author's public profile (name, plus job title, bio, email and X/Twitter handle when the author lists them) and one page of their recent articles.
MCP tool walesonline_author
/walesonline/headlinesLists recent WalesOnline headlines for one section, up to about 25 items. `section` is required and takes a slug such as `news/wales-news`, `news/politics`, `sport/rugby`, `sport/football` or `whats-on`; `walesonline-sections` lists all 37. Photo galleries are omitted, and an invalid value returns a 400 error.
MCP tool walesonline_headlines
/walesonline/newsReturns fresh WalesOnline top stories from the public home RSS feed. Photo galleries are omitted because they have no readable article body.
MCP tool walesonline_news
/walesonline/sectionsLists the 37 WalesOnline sections accepted by `walesonline-headlines`, with nested slugs such as `news/wales-news`, `sport/rugby` and `whats-on/food-drink-news`. Each has a `slug`, a display `name` and a feed `url`. Takes no parameters.
MCP tool walesonline_sections
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How to scrape WalesOnline
WalesOnline is Reach plc's Welsh news site, covering Cardiff and communities across Wales alongside politics, rugby, traffic, and sport. The regional detail is useful for public-sector and local-market work, but a national Welsh decision and a Cardiff road closure are different units of analysis. Keep locality, responsible authority, and section attached to each article before making a Wales-wide summary.
Call /walesonline/sections to inspect the publisher's current taxonomy. Map Wales, Cardiff, local-community, politics, rugby, and traffic sections. Select the locality or subject instead of relying on the national top-story mix.
Use /walesonline/headlines for a selected section and /walesonline/news for the broader current stream. Collect relevant headlines at consistent times, especially for traffic or service updates whose practical value can change during the day.
Pass a canonical public URL to /walesonline/article and use /walesonline/author for the named contributor when available. Read the public article and byline to capture road, town, council, or sports competition details. Preserve any visible update time for developing local stories.
Deduplicate stories by canonical URL, keep the collection date and publisher section, and retain the article's original publication time. For Wales regional monitoring, compare like editorial formats and geographic scopes rather than treating every item in the latest feed as equivalent.
FAQ
Yes. Start with Cardiff and traffic coverage, then extract the specific road, service, operator, and date from the article. A disruption and a long-term planning proposal should remain different categories.
Use the sport or rugby feed for discovery and tag the team, competition, and match date from the text. Do not merge a preview with a result or a club story with national-team coverage.