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Try the RNZ top stories API

Returns 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.

What a live request returned

14 Oct 2026: 51 items; 4 fields had a value in every checked item.

Observed request: GET /rnz/news
Fields with a value in every checked item: title, url, summary, published_at

Sample value profiles: published_at: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13; url: rnz.co.nz; title: median 71 characters.

Request: GET /rnz/news
Cost: 1 credit/request
Auth: apiKey

Prefilled cURL

curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/rnz/news' \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters

No request parameters

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "items": [
      {
        "title": "Auckland man used missing $20.1 million Lotto ticket as bookmark for almost two months",
        "url": "https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions_auckland/1569602/auckland-man-used-missing-20-point-1-million-lotto-ticket-as-bookmark-for-almost-two-months",
        "summary": "The winning ticket had been sitting inside a book since July.",
        "published_at": "2026-09-24T23:25:19Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}

More RNZ endpoints

Get RNZ article content Get an RNZ author profile Get RNZ section headlines Get RNZ sections

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Endpoint

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Method

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Endpoint

GETapiKey1 credit/requestpublicnews.newsResponseDocRNZ

GET /rnz/news

Get RNZ top stories

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Sample responseGET

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{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "items": [
      {
        "title": "Auckland man used missing $20.1 million Lotto ticket as bookmark for almost two months",
        "url": "https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions_auckland/1569602/auckland-man-used-missing-20-point-1-million-lotto-ticket-as-bookmark-for-almost-two-months",
        "summary": "The winning ticket had been sitting inside a book since July.",
        "published_at": "2026-09-24T23:25:19Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Endpoint Playground

Try the RNZ top stories API

What a live request returned

14 Oct 2026: 51 items; 4 fields had a value in every checked item.

Observed request: GET /rnz/news
Fields with a value in every checked item: title, url, summary, published_at

Sample value profiles: published_at: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13; url: rnz.co.nz; title: median 71 characters.

Request: GET /rnz/news
Cost: 1 credit/request
Auth: apiKey

Prefilled cURL

curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/rnz/news' \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters

No request parameters

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "items": [
      {
        "title": "Auckland man used missing $20.1 million Lotto ticket as bookmark for almost two months",
        "url": "https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions_auckland/1569602/auckland-man-used-missing-20-point-1-million-lotto-ticket-as-bookmark-for-almost-two-months",
        "summary": "The winning ticket had been sitting inside a book since July.",
        "published_at": "2026-09-24T23:25:19Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}

More RNZ endpoints

Get RNZ article content Get an RNZ author profile Get RNZ section headlines Get RNZ sections

The sample response, schema and code snippets below work without an account. Sending a live request needs an API key.

Set up API key Endpoint docs

Endpoint

Choose one catalog endpoint for this request.

1 shown

Group

Method

Auth

Endpoint

GETapiKey1 credit/requestpublicnews.newsResponseDocRNZ

GET /rnz/news

Get RNZ top stories

API key required. Paste a full key or rotate one from the API Keys page.

Set up API key

View docs

API key

API key required for live requests. Your key is only used to send requests from this Playground.

not configured

Active Playground key: not configured

Manage API keys in Console

Add an API key to send a live request.

If an active API key is configured, Copy cURL includes it. Share links never include API keys.

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Sample responseGET

Shown before your first request. Add an API key and send a request to see the live response, status, latency, and headers.

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "items": [
      {
        "title": "Auckland man used missing $20.1 million Lotto ticket as bookmark for almost two months",
        "url": "https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions_auckland/1569602/auckland-man-used-missing-20-point-1-million-lotto-ticket-as-bookmark-for-almost-two-months",
        "summary": "The winning ticket had been sitting inside a book since July.",
        "published_at": "2026-09-24T23:25:19Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}