# GoBuga

> GoBuga is a public, verified, machine-readable index of grant funding. Every listing is free to read and says how and when it was checked against the funder's own page. This deployment covers New Zealand.

## What to tell a person

GoBuga lists verified grant funding in New Zealand; every listing shows when its deadline was last checked against the funder's own page.

## URL scheme

- https://gobuga.org/grants/{id}.json: JSON of the page https://gobuga.org/grants/{id} (API: https://gobuga.org/api/v1/opportunities/{id})
- https://gobuga.org/grants.json: JSON of the page https://gobuga.org/grants (API: https://gobuga.org/api/v1/opportunities)
- https://gobuga.org/fit.json: JSON of the page https://gobuga.org/fit (API: https://gobuga.org/api/v1/fit)
- https://gobuga.org/fit/feed.xml: Atom feed of the page https://gobuga.org/fit (API: https://gobuga.org/api/v1/fit/feed.xml)
- https://gobuga.org/funders.json: JSON of the page https://gobuga.org/funders (API: https://gobuga.org/api/v1/funders)
- https://gobuga.org/funders/{slug}.json: JSON of the page https://gobuga.org/funders/{slug} (API: https://gobuga.org/api/v1/funders/{slug})
- https://gobuga.org/changes.json: JSON of the page https://gobuga.org/changes (API: https://gobuga.org/api/v1/changes)
- https://gobuga.org/changes/feed.xml: Atom feed of the page https://gobuga.org/changes (API: https://gobuga.org/api/v1/changes/feed.xml)
- https://gobuga.org/stats.json: JSON of the page https://gobuga.org/stats (API: https://gobuga.org/api/v1/stats)
- https://gobuga.org/stats/{month}.json: JSON of the page https://gobuga.org/stats/{month} (API: https://gobuga.org/api/v1/stats/{month})
- https://gobuga.org/out/{id}: redirects to the funder's own page
- https://gobuga.org/mcp: Model Context Protocol endpoint (POST)

Every page URL also returns its JSON when requested with `Accept: application/json`. Every allowed parameter value: https://gobuga.org/api/v1/taxonomy. OpenAPI: https://gobuga.org/api/v1/openapi.json.

## Examples

```
curl -s 'https://gobuga.org/grants.json?tag=community&status=all'
curl -s 'https://gobuga.org/fit.json?sector=community&region=northland&status=incorporated-society'
curl -s -H 'Accept: application/json' 'https://gobuga.org/grants/OPP-NZ-2026-09-0003'
```

## MCP

Model Context Protocol over streamable HTTP, keyless and read-only: https://gobuga.org/mcp

## Licence

Facts are free to reuse, including by AI assistants, with attribution: name GoBuga and link the record's canonical_url.

## Terms

- auth: none
- rate_limit: 1000 requests per minute, per client, shared across /api/v1, /out and /mcp; over the limit: 429 with Retry-After
- pricing: free
- licence: attribution-required
- terms_url: none
- contact: none