Legistar

Legistar Matters API

Search legislation, ordinances, resolutions from any Legistar-powered municipality. Filter by keyword, type, status, body or date. Costs 1 credit per request. Requires Bootstrap plan or above.

POST/api/v1/legistar/matters

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

keywordstring

Search legislation titles by keyword.

typestring

Filter by matter type (e.g. 'Ordinance (Ord)', 'Resolution (Res)').

statusstring

Filter by status (e.g. 'Passed', 'Adopted').

body_namestring

Filter by originating body.

sincestring

ISO date, return matters from this date onward.

order_bystring

OData orderby clause. Default: MatterIntroDate desc.

limitnumber

Results per page, 1-100. Default 20.

offsetnumber

Skip N results. Default 0.

Request

from scavio import ScavioClient

client = ScavioClient(api_key="sk_live_your_key")
result = client.legistar.matters(client="seattle", keyword="affordable housing")
print(result)

Response

"count": 1

"response_time": 842,

"credits_used": 1,

"credits_remaining": 4999

}