# World Rugby Men's 15s Rankings

> World Rugby Men's 15s Rankings is a paid API for AI agents from api.webintel-api.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-24).

Returns the official World Rugby men's 15s team rankings table including position, rating points, country code, and movement from the previous update.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.webintel-api.workers.dev/api/search/world-rugby-rankings?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-24
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/world-rugby-men-s-15s-rankings-5b65a015
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_nVuwm9mwndQNdQjH-5WQB

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability world-rugby-men-s-15s-rankings-5b65a015
```

Example prompt: What are the current World Rugby men's 15s world rankings? Show me the top 20 teams with their positions, rating points, and how they've moved since the last update.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need the official, current World Rugby men's 15s rankings with movement data (previous position and points) in a single structured call. Prefer this over scraping the World Rugby website or using general sports APIs that may not carry official rating points or previous-position deltas. Best suited for sports dashboards, pre-match context, ranking alerts, or any agent task requiring authoritative men's rugby union standings.

## Known failure modes

- Upstream PulseLive/World Rugby API unavailable — stale or no data returned
- Invalid limit parameter (outside 1–100 range) may return default of 20 or an error
- Network timeout from the Cloudflare Worker to the upstream source
- Rankings table not yet updated by World Rugby after a recent test window — data may lag real matches by days

## How this service works

World Rugby men's 15s world rankings (official rankings API, public, no key): position, team, country code, rating points and previous position and points, from the current table. Men's rankings only; the table is updated by World Rugby.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with the count of teams returned, the table name ('Mens Rugby Union'), the source URL, a timestamp of when the data was checked, the total number of ranked teams, and an array of ranking entries each containing team name, country code, abbreviation, current position, current rating points, previous position, and previous rating points.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "limit": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "How many teams from the top, 1 to 100 (default 20)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "count": 3,
  "table": "Mens Rugby Union",
  "source": "https://api.wr-rims-prod.pulselive.com/rugby/v3/rankings/mru",
  "rankings": [
   {
    "team": "South Africa",
    "points": 93.09,
    "position": 1,
    "countryCode": "ZAF",
    "abbreviation": "RSA",
    "previousPoints": 93.09,
    "previousPosition": 1
   },
   {
    "team": "New Zealand",
    "points": 92.27,
    "position": 2,
    "countryCode": "NZL",
    "abbreviation": "NZL",
    "previousPoints": 91.81,
    "previousPosition": 2
   }
  ],
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-23T09:38:46.482Z",
  "teamCount": 114
 }
}
```

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