City Council & Public Meeting Transcripts
Pricing
from $8.00 / 1,000 transcribed meeting minutes
Timestamped city council and county board transcripts tied to agenda items and official votes. Granicus, Swagit, Legistar and YouTube; type a city or paste URLs. $0.008 per audio minute; list meetings first for $0.002 each. Keyword alerts and new-meeting monitoring.
status
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succeeded, listed (listOnly mode), retry_later (captions/recording not ready yet; free), minutes_pending (re-check found no minutes yet; free), recheck_expired (free) or failed
input
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The URL or city this record came from
platform
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granicus, swagit, youtube, directMedia, or none (Legistar meeting without video)
title
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Meeting title
body
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Governing body
date
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Meeting date-time, local to the meeting (ISO, no zone)
meetingUid
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Stable meeting ID (schemaVersion 1.0)
durationSeconds
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Recording length in seconds
pageUrl
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Video player page
agendaUrl
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Agenda page or PDF
minutesUrl
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Minutes page or PDF
transcriptSource
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speechToText, youtubeCaptions or youtubeAutoCaptions
wordCount
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Words in the transcript
agendaSource
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swagitIndex, granicusIndex, legistarAligned or agendaDocumentAligned
agendaItems
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Agenda items with start/end seconds, deep links, placement method and status
officialOutcomes
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Votes and results from Legistar or verbatim minutes quotes only
keywordHits
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Keyword matches with timestamp, context and deep link
keywordCounts
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Matches per keyword
segments
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Timestamped segments with deep link and confidence
text
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Plain transcript
markdown
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Markdown transcript with timestamp links
digest
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Opt-in digest. Record-first (method record_first_rule_ranked): verificationStatus "verified", deterministic, exactly digestPoints points (fewer only if fewer eligible official votes); each point has headline, officialTitle, outcome (verbatim result + tally), mover, seconder, page, officialSourceUrl (#page=N), watchUrl, timestampKind, rankScore, rankSignals. names.mode is private_names_omitted (default) or as_printed_in_record with namedPeople [{name, role, agendaItemId, sourceUrl, page}].
errorType
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Failure type (never charged)
error
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Failure details
hint
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How to fix a failure
retryable
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Whether a retry may help
charged
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Whether this record was charged
chargedEvents
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Events charged for this record ({} when none)
consentAgenda
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Consent block: consentGroupId, itemCount, start, timestamp, url, itemsWithOwnTimestamp, itemsSharingGroupTimestamp. Agenda items carry consentGroupId and timestampKind (item | consent_group_shared).
retryAfter
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status retry_later only: suggested ISO time to run again (captions or recording not posted yet). Never charged.
retryAfterReason
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Why retry_later was returned.
recheck
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Present when the meeting is on the re-check list (preliminary digest waiting for minutes, or retry_later waiting for captions): meetingKey, reason, retryAfter, what was already charged, and the task to re-run.
recheckResolved
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Present when a re-check upgraded this meeting (minutes now posted, or captions now available).
transcriptReused
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Re-check runs reuse the first run's transcript; audio minutes are not charged again.
digestStatus
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minutes_pending when a re-check found no minutes yet (nothing charged).
