#civic-tech

The European Parliament as an API, powered by the official European Parliament Open Data portal (data.europarl.europa.eu). Track the EU's directly-elected legislature: list the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for any parliamentary term — term 10 is the current 2024-2029 Parliament — with pagination; read an individual MEP's profile including their full name, country of representation, gender, contact email, official photo and place of birth, together with their committee, political-group and delegation memberships split into current and past, each with the role held (member, chair, vice-chair, …) and start/end dates; and browse the Parliament's corporate bodies — its standing and special committees (such as ECON, ENVI, LIBE), political groups and inter-parliamentary delegations — with their id, acronym, label and type. The organization id that appears in an MEP's memberships matches a corporate body, so you can resolve exactly which committee or group a member sits on. Ideal for civic-tech and transparency tools, political research and journalism, lobbying and public-affairs monitoring, and EU-policy analytics. MEP ids come from the MEPs endpoint. Data from the European Parliament (CC-BY 4.0).

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The European Union open-data portal as an API, powered by data.europa.eu — the official single point of access to more than 1.8 million open datasets published by the EU institutions and harvested from the national open-data portals of all 27 member states (including data.gov.uk, data.gouv.fr and GovData Germany). Search datasets across every theme — energy, health, transport, environment, agriculture, economy, justice and more — with optional filters by file format and by publishing country, getting each dataset's identifier, English title and description, publisher, source portal, country, available formats, resource count, last-modified date and licence; read a dataset's full metadata together with all of its downloadable distributions (each distribution's title, format and direct URL), plus categories, keywords, languages and temporal coverage; and explore discovery facets for any query — the most common file formats and the countries publishing matching datasets. Ideal for data journalism, civic-tech and govtech applications, research, market and policy analysis, and any tool that needs to find and download European public-sector information. Dataset identifiers come from search results; titles and descriptions are returned in English where available. Data from data.europa.eu (licences vary per dataset; most are CC-BY or public domain).

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The Parliament of Canada as an API, powered by openparliament.ca. Browse the Members of Parliament of the House of Commons with their party, riding (electoral district) and province; read an MP's profile including contact details, current party and riding, and full membership history; browse bills by parliamentary session (number, title, date introduced); read a bill's details (sponsor, LEGISinfo id, whether it is a private member's bill, and whether it became law); browse recorded votes (divisions) with their result and yea/nay totals; and list the Hansard debate days. The open database that tracks Canadian federal politics. Ideal for civic-tech and transparency apps, political journalism and dashboards, voting-record and legislation trackers, and research on Canadian democracy. Sessions look like 45-1. Data from openparliament.ca.

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German parliaments as an API, powered by the official abgeordnetenwatch.de service. Search politicians across the Bundestag, the 16 state Landtage and the German seats in the EU Parliament; read a politician's profile (party, year of birth, education, residence, occupation and how many citizen questions they have received and answered); list the parliaments; browse the recorded votes (Abstimmungen) with their date and whether the motion was accepted, newest first and filterable by parliament; read a single vote with its committees and topics; and list parliamentary committees. The transparency database that tracks German federal and state politics. Ideal for civic-tech and transparency apps, political journalism and dashboards, election and voting-record tools, and research on German politics. Data is CC BY-SA from abgeordnetenwatch.de.

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