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---

name: animates-nz

- description: Use when looking up Animates NZ products, current public prices, availability, or product details. Queries bounded public Magento search results and parses product-page JSON-LD through a read-only Python CLI; no cart, checkout, account, payment, prescription, booking, grooming, or other mutations.

+ description: "Use when looking up Animates NZ products, current public prices, availability, or product details. Queries bounded public Magento search results and parses product-page JSON-LD through a read-only Python CLI; no cart, checkout, account, payment, prescription, booking, grooming, or other mutations."

+ license: MIT

+ compatibility: "Requires Python 3.10+ and network access for live data"

+ metadata:

+ thecolab.category: "retail"

+ thecolab.source_owner: "Animates New Zealand"

+ thecolab.source_type: "commercial"

+ thecolab.auth: "none"

+ thecolab.access_mode: "html-readonly"

+ thecolab.data_class: "public"

+ thecolab.writes: "false"

+ thecolab.browser: "false"

+ thecolab.risk: "low"

+ thecolab.cache_ttl: "24h"

+ thecolab.schema_version: "1"

+ thecolab.skill_type: "html-readonly"

+ thecolab.pack: "nz-commercial-web"

+ thecolab.source_url: "https://www.animates.co.nz"

+ thecolab.allowed_domains: "www.animates.co.nz"

+ thecolab.last_verified: "2026-07-19"

+ thecolab.health: "healthy"

+ thecolab.maintainer: "@adam91holt"

---

# Animates NZ

## Goal

Retrieve current public Animates NZ product search and detail data without login or browser automation.

## Use this when

- Searching Animates NZ products by keyword

- Looking up a public Animates product URL or numeric product ID

- Capturing a current price and availability snapshot with source evidence

## Do not use this for

- Cart, checkout, account, Petpoints, payment, prescription, booking, grooming, hire, stock reservation, or any mutation

- Medical or veterinary advice

- Bulk scraping, historical-price claims, or redistribution as a dataset

## Workflow

1. Use `search` to discover products. Results are capped at 10 and each result is verified against its public detail page.

2. Use `product` for one known Animates URL, `.html` path, or numeric product ID.

3. Use `price-snapshot` for the smallest price-and-availability record.

4. Add `--json` for machine-readable output. Every command reports `source_url` and UTC `retrieved_at`.

5. Treat values as live website observations, not guaranteed store stock or a historical record.

## CLI

```bash

python3 skills/animates-nz/scripts/cli.py search "dog food" --limit 3 --json

python3 skills/animates-nz/scripts/cli.py product 18463 --json

python3 skills/animates-nz/scripts/cli.py price-snapshot 18463 --json

```

The global `--timeout N` option goes before the command and defaults to 10 seconds.

## Output and safety

- Uses Python standard library only and unauthenticated GET requests.

- Search uses the public Magento read-only search endpoint only to obtain bounded product IDs, then parses Product JSON-LD from detail HTML.

- Responses are size-capped; malformed or incomplete upstream data fails instead of returning fabricated success.

- Search can make one search request plus up to `--limit` detail requests; keep limits narrow.

## Resources

- CLI: `scripts/cli.py`

- Live and fixture smoke tests: `scripts/smoke_test.py`

- Endpoint, parser, and safety notes: `references/api-notes.md`