Legistar

Legistar Matter History API

Get the full legislative action trail for a piece of legislation: committee referrals, votes, council passage, mayoral signature. Costs 1 credit per request. Requires Bootstrap plan or above.

POST/api/v1/legistar/matter/history

Authorizations

Authorizationstringheaderrequired

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your Scavio API key (e.g. Bearer sk_live_your_key).

Body

application/json

clientstringrequired

Municipality identifier (e.g. 'seattle', 'nyc', 'chicago').

Example: seattle

matter_idnumberrequired

Matter ID from the matters endpoint.

Example: 1785

limitnumber

Results per page, 1-100. Default 20.

offsetnumber

Number of results to skip for pagination.

Request

from scavio import ScavioClient

client = ScavioClient(api_key="sk_live_your_key")
result = client.legistar.matter_history(client="seattle", matter_id=1785)
for action in result["data"]["results"]:
    print(action["actionDate"], action["actionName"], "-", action["actionBodyName"])

Response

"count": 2

"response_time": 612,

"credits_used": 1,

"credits_remaining": 4995

}