Topics

Agenda items, motions, meeting documents and recordings are tagged with business topics, such as short_term_rentals, data_centres, solar_and_storage, telecom_siting, zoning and procurement. Read the tags here, or pass a topic as topic on meetings, agenda items and motions to follow it across governments.

A record with no tag is not yet tagged. It does not mean the topic is absent.

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GET /v1/topics

List business topic tags. The business topics given to agenda items, motions, documents and recordings (data centres, short-term rentals, solar and storage, telecom siting, zoning, procurement, …). A record with no tag is not yet tagged. Billed as one records request a page. Filters: jurisdiction, topic, kind, from, to, since, meeting.

Reference and playground for list business topic tags

Filters

Parameter	What it takes
jurisdiction	A jurisdiction id.
topic	A business topic id (GET /v1/topics lists the tags given).
kind	The subject kind: meeting_item, motion, meeting_document, recording.
from	On or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).
to	On or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD).
since	Records read at or after this instant: what is new since your last read.
meeting	A meeting id.

Pages with limit and cursor (pagination).

Fields of each result, GET /v1/topics

Field	Type	What it holds
id	string
subject_kind	string	meeting_item, motion, meeting_document, recording.
subject_id	string
meeting_id	string or null
jurisdiction_id	string
topic	string
taxonomy_version	string
confidence	number
source_url	string or null	The page, document, video or platform the record was read from.
read_at	string or null	When it was read.