OpenPublica
Search US local-government meetings: AI summaries, transcripts, and adopted plan documents.
| Endpoint | https://api.openpublica.com/mcp (streamable-http) |
|---|---|
| Registry version | 1.0.0 |
| Now | 16 tools · grade B (86) · pin ts_f02c51a202efff04408fde94f5467f8f · protocol 2025-06-18 |
| First / last listed | 2026-11-08 03:01 UTC / 2026-11-08 03:01 UTC |
| Grade over time | 2026-11-08: B (86), 16 tools |
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Tools: search_meeting_content search_meetings_semantic list_recent_meetings get_meeting search_meeting_transcript find_local_governments find_governments_by_name find_governments_by_zip get_government_info get_government_stats discover_meeting_vocabulary list_government_documents get_document read_document_pages search_documents get_coverage_overview
search_meeting_content | Search public meetings once across metadata and stored transcript text.
Returns one card per meeting and native pagination metadata, without a total.
Small current-text previews can be absent and do not establish timestamps.
Text relevance can lag updates or match across untimed boundaries.
Source transcripts searches stored text, including meetings without timed proof.
params: query*, government_id, government_ids, category_tag, topic, start_date, end_date, source, cursor, limit |
search_meetings_semantic | Find AI summaries by meaning; use search_meeting_content for stored words.
Results carry relevance_score and a summary preview. Narrow with government,
category_tag, topic or dates; get_meeting retrieves the full summary.
params: query*, government_id, government_ids, start_date, end_date, category_tag, topic, match_type, min_score, limit |
list_recent_meetings | Browse meetings newest-first, optionally filtered by government, type, topic, or date.
Use this for "what are the most recent meetings" or to page through a
government's history. For topical questions, prefer `search_meetings_semantic`.
params: government_id, category_tag, topic, start_date, end_date, limit, page |
get_meeting | Get a single meeting's full AI summary and topics.
Set `include_transcript=true` to also retrieve the complete transcript text
for direct quotation. Returns an error object if the meeting is not found.
params: meeting_id*, include_transcript |
search_meeting_transcript | Use unified stored-text search inside one currently public meeting.
Returns an optional current-text preview, without resolving timing. A text match
can lack a literal preview; use get_meeting(include_transcript=true) for full source
retrieval. This does not run a separate local scan or fuzzy passage ranking.
params: meeting_id*, query* |
find_local_governments | Discover which governments OpenPublica tracks near a coordinate.
Returns nearby governments with their `account_id`, which you can pass to the
other tools to scope results to a specific city or board. Note OpenPublica
only covers a limited set of US localities; an empty result means none are
tracked near that point yet.
params: longitude*, latitude*, limit |
find_governments_by_name | Resolve a place *name* to the governments OpenPublica tracks there.
Use this when you know a city/state name but not its coordinates — it returns
matching governments with their `account_id` (prefix matches first), which you
then pass to the search/list tools. Prefer this over `find_local_governments`
when starting from a name rather than a latitude/longitude.
params: query*, limit |
find_governments_by_zip | Resolve a ZIP code to nearby tracked governments.
Convenience wrapper: geocodes the ZIP, then finds the governments OpenPublica
tracks nearest that point. Returns their `account_id`s plus the resolved
location. An empty `governments` list means none are tracked near that ZIP yet.
params: postal_code*, limit |
get_government_info | Get a tracked government's profile: name, location, and meeting categories. params: government_id*, include_weekly_summary |
get_government_stats | Get meeting-activity stats for a government over a recent window.
Returns total meeting count, a per-day activity map, and a breakdown of
meeting categories — useful for "how active has X been lately?" questions.
params: government_id*, days |
discover_meeting_vocabulary | Discover the valid category and topic filter values before filtering a search.
Meeting `category_tag`s are opaque UUIDs and topics have no fixed list, so you
cannot guess them. Call this first to get the real values, then pass a returned
`category_tag` (from `categories[].tags`) or `topic` string into
`search_meetings_semantic` / `list_recent_meetings`. Scope with a government
params: government_id, government_ids, start_date, end_date, topic_limit |
list_government_documents | List a government's adopted plan and budget documents.
Each entry carries `covers` — every general-plan element that document
answers for. A city that publishes one bound general plan satisfies all
eight with the same PDF, so do not conclude an element is unpublished
because no entry is named after it.
`status` says what the entry offers: `converted` is searchable and readabl params: government_id*, include_superseded |
get_document | One document's metadata. Use read_document_pages to read it.
If an `availability` key is present, read it before quoting figures: its
`problems` are transcription-lint findings, most often a footnote marker
that may have been merged into the number it annotates. No such key means
the document transcribed cleanly.
params: document_id* |
read_document_pages | Read a page range of a document as markdown.
Pages are transcribed from rendered pixels, so tables and scanned text come
through as text. A page that could not be transcribed appears as a marked
hole rather than being silently dropped — if you see one, say so instead of
reading past it.
Text is assembled from page windows, so `covered` may be slightly wider than
what you params: document_id*, first_page*, last_page* |
search_documents | Search adopted plan and budget documents, returning page-cited excerpts.
Each hit's `text` is a short passage around the match, not the full page —
call read_document_pages with the hit's `first_page` to read it in context.
Every hit carries `first_page`/`last_page` and `source_url`. Quote those
when citing: the page number is what makes the claim checkable against the
city's params: query*, government_id, limit |
get_coverage_overview | Get estimated stored-record totals, not publication-filtered coverage.
Counts do not establish completeness, searchability or freshness. DC is
reported separately from states as `includes_dc`.
params: none |
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