About the API

The metadata available through DigitalNZ comes from content providers across the New Zealand cultural and heritage, broadcasting, education, and government sectors; as well as local community sources and individuals. Geospatial and commercial content is coming soon.

Our goal is to uncover hidden or buried New Zealand content such as images, audio, video, interactives, and documents, and make them available for discovery and use.

We only collect metadata for the content, so these APIs will point you to the online items made available by our fantastic content contributors. We hope you'll use this metadata to do good and wonderful things, create new experiences, and demonstrate the value of sharing data.

Grab your API key and get started today.

We're also planning some developer events around the country. Register your interest for HackFest09 today.