City Council & Public Meeting Transcripts
Pricing
from $8.00 / 1,000 transcribed meeting minutes
Tested Oct 25, 2026: from a city name alone it found recent meetings for 26 of 29 US cities and counties (YouTube, Granicus, Swagit, Legistar). The other 3 got clear NOT_FOUND or NO_MEETINGS rows, which are free. Speaker-timestamped transcripts, agenda alignment and vote digests.
You can access the City Council & Public Meeting Transcripts programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "sources": ["https://dallastx.new.swagit.com/videos/404279"],10 "mode": "listOnly",11 "cities": [],12 "maxAudioMinutes": 60,13}14
15# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish16run = client.actor("catalyst-labs/city-council-meeting-transcripts").call(run_input=run_input)17
18# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)19print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")20for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():21 print(item)22
23# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use City Council & Public Meeting Transcripts API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: