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Put the whole archive on your AI’s desk.

You have reached an endpoint built for AI tools rather than for reading — landing here in a browser is expected, and there is nothing to view. Point Claude, or any MCP-capable assistant, at the URL below and it can search every US city-council and board meeting we cover, pull full summaries and transcripts, and quote the plans and budgets those meetings argue over. Free, anonymous, and read-only.

MCP ENDPOINT
https://api.openpublica.com/mcp

How to connect

i.

Claude — web or desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste the URL above.

ii.

Cursor, Windsurf & other mcp.json clients

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openpublica": {
      "url": "https://api.openpublica.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
iii.

Then just ask

“What did Sacramento decide about the downtown financing district?”

Your assistant searches the archive, reads the meeting, and cites it back to you.

What it can do

→search_meetings_semanticSearch every meeting by topic or question
→list_recent_meetingsBrowse a government’s meetings, newest first
→get_meetingFull summary, topics, transcript
→search_meeting_transcriptExact quotes, without loading the whole transcript
→search_documentsPage-cited search of general plans and budgets
→find_local_governmentsWhich governments we cover near a place
→…and government info, stats, and meeting vocabulary

OpenPublica transcribes and summarizes US local-government meetings so the record is readable without watching the tape. Browse it yourself at openpublica.com, or read the REST API reference.

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