Free public API
Every one of 4,375 licensed NZ early childhood centres has machine-readable siblings. No key needed.
Per-centre endpoints
Every centre page has two adjacent endpoints:
GET /api/centre/{slug}/facts.json— structured JSON: MoE basics, roll, age breakdown, ethnicity, Equity Index, 20 Hours ECE flag, operator, suburb, source & refresh timestamp.GET /api/centre/{slug}/markdown.md— same data rendered as LLM-friendly Markdown.
Example
curl https://daycarenearme.co.nz/api/centre/somerville-kindergarten-10002/facts.json Discovery endpoints
GET /llms.txt— short AI-crawler primer, top entry points.GET /llms-full.txt— every centre, operator, suburb and region URL plus the JSON+Markdown siblings (4,375 × 3 + supporting URLs).GET /sitemap-index.xml— Google sitemap index.
Terms of use
Free for personal, research and AI-citation use. Bulk / commercial use, automated mirroring, or rebadging require a data licence — get in touch.
Underlying NZ government data is licensed CC-BY 4.0 (data.govt.nz) and Crown copyright (ERO). Attribute the original source and daycarenearme.co.nz where data has been enriched or joined.