OpenPublica
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OpenPublica makes US local-government meetings searchable. It tracks city
councils and boards (Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and
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- https://api.openpublica.com/mcp
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- streamable-http ·2025-06-18
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- Yes — it answered the hub's last check (checked 52m ago). It answered 99% of checks over the last 30 days.
- Is OpenPublica free to use?
- Yes — the hub reached it with no key and no payment.
- What tools does OpenPublica have?
- 15 tools: get_meeting, list_government_documents, find_governments_by_zip, get_document, search_meeting_transcript, get_government_info, get_government_stats, read_document_pages, ….
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- search local government meeting summaries
- find governments by name or zip
- read a meeting transcript
- search adopted plan and budget documents
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discover_meeting_vocabulary reads open 14h ago
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 and/or date range; calls without explicit dates default to a recent window (returned as `default_window_days`).
{ "type": "object", "title": "discover_meeting_vocabularyArguments", "properties": { "end_date": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "title": "End Date", "default": null, "description": "Optional latest date, MM-DD-YYYY." }, "start_date": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "title": "Start Date", "default": null, "description": "Optional earliest date, MM-DD-YYYY." }, "topic_limit": { "type": "integer", "title": "Topic Limit", "default": 50, "maximum": 200, "minimum": 1, "description": "Max topics to return, most common first (1-200)." }, "government_id": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "title": "Government Id", "default": null, "description": "Optional account_id to scope the vocabulary to one government." }, "government_ids": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, { "type": "null" } ], "title": "Government Ids", "default": null, "description": "Optional list of account_ids to scope to several governments. Overrides government_id." } } }arguments 69 linesget_coverage_overview reads open 14h ago
Get OpenPublica's overall coverage: total governments, states, and meetings indexed. DC is tracked but is not a state, so it is reported separately as `includes_dc` — read the pair as "N states and DC".
{ "type": "object", "title": "get_coverage_overviewArguments", "properties": {} }arguments 5 lineslist_recent_meetings reads open 14h ago
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`.
{ "type": "object", "title": "list_recent_meetingsArguments", "properties": { "page": { "type": "integer", "title": "Page", "default": 1, "minimum": 1, "description": "1-based page number for older results." }, "limit": { "type": "integer", "title": "Limit", "default": 10, "maximum": 25, "minimum": 1, "description": "Meetings per page (1-25)." }, "topic": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "title": "Topic", "default": null, "description": "Optional topic filter — a topic name from discover_meeting_vocabulary, e.g. 'Affordable Housing'." }, "end_date": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "title": "End Date", "default": null, "description": "Optional latest date, MM-DD-YYYY." }, "start_date": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "title": "Start Date", "default": null, "description": "Optional earliest date, MM-DD-YYYY." }, "category_tag": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "title": "Category Tag", "default": null, "description": "Optional meeting-type filter — an opaque category_tag from discover_meeting_vocabulary (not a guessable slug; don't invent it)." }, "government_id": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "title": "Government Id", "default": null, "description": "account_id to list meetings for (from find_local_governments). Omit to list across all governments." } } }arguments 86 linesget_meeting reads unknown 52m ago
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.
{ "type": "object", "title": "get_meetingArguments", "required": [ "meeting_id" ], "properties": { "meeting_id": { "type": "string", "title": "Meeting Id", "description": "The meeting_id returned by a search/list tool." }, "include_transcript": { "type": "boolean", "title": "Include Transcript", "default": false, "description": "If true, also fetch the full meeting transcript (can be long). Default false." } } }arguments 20 lineslist_government_documents reads unknown 52m ago
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 readable; `superseded` is a retired edition, still stored but not searchable; and **`failed` means we hold this document and could not read it — it is not evidence the city published nothing.** Cite `source_url` in that case; it is always the city's own copy. An `availability` block appears ONLY when something is wrong with a document, and `availability.reason` says what. No `availability` key means there is nothing to report.
{ "type": "object", "title": "list_government_documentsArguments", "required": [ "government_id" ], "properties": { "government_id": { "type": "string", "title": "Government Id", "description": "account_id from find_local_governments." }, "include_superseded": { "type": "boolean", "title": "Include Superseded", "default": false, "description": "Also include prior editions retired by a newer document." } } }arguments 20 linesfind_governments_by_zip reads unknown 7h ago
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.
{ "type": "object", "title": "find_governments_by_zipArguments", "required": [ "postal_code" ], "properties": { "limit": { "type": "integer", "title": "Limit", "default": 10, "maximum": 50, "minimum": 1, "description": "Max governments to return (1-50)." }, "postal_code": { "type": "string", "title": "Postal Code", "description": "A US ZIP code, e.g. '95814'." } } }arguments 22 linesget_document reads unknown 4h ago
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.
{ "type": "object", "title": "get_documentArguments", "required": [ "document_id" ], "properties": { "document_id": { "type": "string", "title": "Document Id", "description": "Document id from list_government_documents or search_documents." } } }arguments 14 linessearch_meeting_transcript reads unknown 11h ago
Find exact quotes/passages inside one meeting's transcript. Use this to pull direct quotations without loading a whole (often very long) transcript: it fetches the transcript server-side, scans it, and returns only the matching passages with approximate `start`/`end` timecodes when available. Exact matches rank first, with a fuzzy fallback. Prefer this over `get_meeting(include_transcript=true)` when you only need specific quotes.
{ "type": "object", "title": "search_meeting_transcriptArguments", "required": [ "meeting_id", "query" ], "properties": { "query": { "type": "string", "title": "Query", "description": "The phrase or terms to find in the transcript, e.g. 'rent stabilization' or a speaker's exact words." }, "meeting_id": { "type": "string", "title": "Meeting Id", "description": "The meeting_id (from a search/list tool) whose transcript to search." }, "max_passages": { "type": "integer", "title": "Max Passages", "default": 5, "maximum": 20, "minimum": 1, "description": "Max matched passages to return (1-20)." }, "context_chars": { "type": "integer", "title": "Context Chars", "default": 300, "maximum": 2000, "minimum": 0, "description": "Characters of surrounding context per side of a match (0-2000)." } } }arguments 36 linesget_government_info reads unknown 4h ago
Get a tracked government's profile: name, location, and meeting categories.
{ "type": "object", "title": "get_government_infoArguments", "required": [ "government_id" ], "properties": { "government_id": { "type": "string", "title": "Government Id", "description": "The account_id of the government." }, "include_weekly_summary": { "type": "boolean", "title": "Include Weekly Summary", "default": false, "description": "If true, include the AI-generated weekly digest (markdown). Default false." } } }arguments 20 linesget_government_stats reads unknown 4h ago
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.
{ "type": "object", "title": "get_government_statsArguments", "required": [ "government_id" ], "properties": { "days": { "type": "integer", "title": "Days", "default": 30, "maximum": 365, "minimum": 1, "description": "Look-back window in days (1-365)." }, "government_id": { "type": "string", "title": "Government Id", "description": "account_id of the government, or 'all' for corpus-wide stats." } } }arguments 22 linesread_document_pages reads unknown 52m ago
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 asked for; cite the page numbers in `covered`, not `requested`.
{ "type": "object", "title": "read_document_pagesArguments", "required": [ "document_id", "first_page", "last_page" ], "properties": { "last_page": { "type": "integer", "title": "Last Page", "minimum": 1, "description": "Last page to read. Spans longer than 40 pages are clamped to 40 from first_page." }, "first_page": { "type": "integer", "title": "First Page", "minimum": 1, "description": "First page to read (1-based, as the PDF renders)." }, "document_id": { "type": "string", "title": "Document Id", "description": "Document id from list_government_documents or search_documents." } } }arguments 28 linesfind_governments_by_name reads unknown 7h ago
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.
{ "type": "object", "title": "find_governments_by_nameArguments", "required": [ "query" ], "properties": { "limit": { "type": "integer", "title": "Limit", "default": 10, "maximum": 50, "minimum": 1, "description": "Max governments to return (1-50)." }, "query": { "type": "string", "title": "Query", "description": "A place name to search for, e.g. 'Sacramento', 'San Francisco, CA', or a state like 'Texas'." } } }arguments 22 linesfind_local_governments reads unknown 7h ago
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.
{ "type": "object", "title": "find_local_governmentsArguments", "required": [ "longitude", "latitude" ], "properties": { "limit": { "type": "integer", "title": "Limit", "default": 10, "maximum": 50, "minimum": 1, "description": "Max governments to return (1-50)." }, "latitude": { "type": "number", "title": "Latitude", "maximum": 90, "minimum": -90, "description": "Latitude of the location of interest." }, "longitude": { "type": "number", "title": "Longitude", "maximum": 180, "minimum": -180, "description": "Longitude of the location of interest." } } }arguments 32 linessearch_documents reads unknown 11h ago
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 own copy. This is word matching, not semantic search — try the terms a plan would actually use. Only currently-served documents are searchable, so an empty result is not evidence the government has no such policy; check list_government_documents for what is held and what could not be read. A hit with `document_complete: false` comes from a document with transcription findings. Verify it against `source_url` before quoting a number from it.
{ "type": "object", "title": "search_documentsArguments", "required": [ "query" ], "properties": { "limit": { "type": "integer", "title": "Limit", "default": 10, "maximum": 50, "minimum": 1, "description": "Maximum excerpts to return." }, "query": { "type": "string", "title": "Query", "description": "Words to find in plan and budget text, e.g. 'accessory dwelling unit parking'." }, "government_id": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "title": "Government Id", "default": null, "description": "Optional account_id to restrict the search to one government." } } }arguments 35 linessearch_meetings_semantic reads unknown 11h ago
Search OpenPublica meeting metadata by meaning, analyzed words, or both. The best default tool for "what has been said/decided about X" questions. Results carry a `relevance_score` (semantic, 0-1) and/or `keyword_score` (BM25) plus `highlights`, so you can triage matches by confidence. If the response sets `degraded_to_vector`, the hybrid keyword query failed and results are semantic-only. Keyword query failures return an error. Narrow with `category_tag`/`topic` (get valid values from `discover_meeting_vocabulary`), a date range, or one or more governments. Returns a summary preview; call `get_meeting` with a returned `meeting_id` for the full summary or transcript.
{ "type": "object", "title": "search_meetings_semanticArguments", "required": [ "query" ], "properties": { "limit": { "type": "integer", "title": "Limit", "default": 10, "maximum": 25, "minimum": 1, "description": "Max meetings to return (1-25)." }, "query": { "type": "string", "title": "Query", "description": "What to search for in plain language, e.g. 'short-term rental regulations' or 'police budget overtime'." }, "topic": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "title": "Topic", "default": null, "description": "Optional topic filter — a topic name from discover_meeting_vocabulary, e.g. 'Affordable Housing'. Restricts to meetings that discussed it." }, "end_date": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "title": "End Date", "default": null, "description": "Optional latest meeting date, MM-DD-YYYY." }, "min_score": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "number", "maximum": 1, "minimum": 0 }, { "type": "null" } ], "title": "Min Score", "default": null, "description": "Optional semantic relevance floor 0-1 (default 0.4). Raise to return only strong matches; lower to widen recall. Applies to semantic matching only — keyword (BM25) hits are not filtered by it." }, "match_type": { "anyOf": [ { "enum": [ "semantic", "keyword", "hybrid" ], "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "title": "Match Type", "default": null, "description": "How to match: 'semantic' (default, by meaning — best for concepts/paraphrases), 'keyword' (analyzed words in titles, summaries and topics), or 'hybrid' (both, rank-fused). Neither searches literal transcript phrases." }, "start_date": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "title": "Start Date", "default": null, "description": "Optional earliest meeting date, MM-DD-YYYY." }, "category_tag": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "title": "Category Tag", "default": null, "description": "Optional meeting-type filter — an opaque category_tag from discover_meeting_vocabulary (not a guessable slug)." }, "government_id": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "title": "Government Id", "default": null, "description": "Optional account_id (from find_local_governments) to restrict the search to one government." }, "government_ids": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, { "type": "null" } ], "title": "Government Ids", "default": null, "description": "Optional list of account_ids to search across several governments at once (e.g. to compare cities). Overrides government_id." } } }arguments 136 lines
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