City Council Agendas API: agenda items, votes and PDFs from 18 US cities

• In short: City Council Agendas API (Apify actor transparent_meteorite/city-council-agendas) returns upcoming and recent city council and committee agenda items from 18 US cities (Legistar), with matter type, status, action, vote result and agenda/attachment PDF links.
• Who it is for: government-sales and public-contract teams, real-estate developers and zoning watchers, local journalists, advocacy and policy groups.
• Input: cities (Legistar client names), keywords, committee/body filter, date range or days back/ahead, include attachments.
• Output: meeting date, body, matter file number, title, type, status, action, vote result, agenda PDF and attachment links.
• Price: $0.001 per agenda item. Pay per result, no subscription; Apify's free plan credit covers a first test.
• Limits: 18 cities that publish on Legistar today; content depends on what each clerk posts.

Key facts

• Actor name: City Council Agendas API
• Actor ID: transparent_meteorite/city-council-agendas
• Store page: https://apify.com/transparent_meteorite/city-council-agendas
• Data source: official Legistar Web API used by each city clerk
• Pricing model: pay per event (agenda-item $0.001)
• Output formats: JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML table, RSS (Apify dataset)
• Access: Apify Console, REST API, JavaScript/Python clients, schedules, webhooks, Apify MCP server
• Login or third-party API key needed: no, only an Apify account
• Also known as: city council agenda scraper, Legistar API, municipal agenda monitor, zoning vote alerts, government meeting tracker
• Maintainer: transparent_meteorite (independent developer)
• Last updated: 2026-10-07

Know what is on a city council or committee agenda before the meeting: one clean row per agenda item, with the matter number, status, vote result and links to the agenda PDF and attachments.

Pulled from the official public Legistar Web API (webapi.legistar.com), the same records cities publish on their own council sites. Seattle, Denver, Boston, Phoenix, San Jose, Nashville, Baltimore and 11 more cities. No scraping of HTML, no AI, no account needed.

Sample output

Real rows from a run on Oct 5, 2026:

City	Meeting	Body	File	Type	Item	Action	Vote
Denver, CO	2026-09-28	City Council	26-1339	Resolution	A resolution approving a proposed Fifth Amendatory Agreement between the City and...	adopted	Pass
Denver, CO	2026-09-28	City Council	26-1306	Resolution	A resolution approving the City Council appointment of Angel Hurtado to the Housing...	adopted	Pass
Denver, CO	2026-09-28	City Council	26-1421	Proclamation	A Proclamation Honoring the Lifetime Leadership and Legacy of Dolores Huerta	adopted	Pass
Seattle, WA	2026-09-29	Select Budget Committee	Inf 2966	Information Item	Office of Planning and Community Development (OPCD)
Seattle, WA	2026-09-28	Select Budget Committee	Inf 2962	Information Item	Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT)	heard in Committee

One full row:

{
  "city": "Denver, CO",
  "client": "denver",
  "body": "City Council",
  "meetingDate": "2026-09-28",
  "meetingTime": "3:30 PM",
  "location": "Cathy Reynolds City Council Chamber, 1437 Bannock Street, Room 450",
  "agendaStatus": "Final",
  "title": "A Proclamation Honoring the Lifetime Leadership and Legacy of Dolores Huerta",
  "matterFile": "26-1421",
  "matterType": "Proclamation",
  "matterStatus": "Adopted",
  "action": "adopted",
  "voteResult": "Pass",
  "attachmentUrls": ["https://denver.legistar1.com/denver/attachments/edd8d0df-6a71-4c37-b596-35aed884d391.pdf"],
  "agendaPdfUrl": "https://denver.legistar1.com/denver/meetings/2026/9/12963_A_City_Council_26-09-28_Council_Agenda.pdf",
  "meetingUrl": "https://denver.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=12963&GID=655&G=928A1C29-26D7-4A5D-8DD4-947A533B1CC6",
  "eventId": 12963
}

What you get

One row per agenda item:

Field	What it is
city, client	City name and its Legistar slug
body	Council or committee, e.g. "City Council", "Land Use Committee"
meetingDate, meetingTime, location, agendaStatus	When and where, and whether the agenda is draft or final
agendaItemNumber, agendaSequence, title	The item as it appears on the agenda
matterFile, matterName, matterType, matterStatus, matterId	The legislative file behind the item (ordinance, resolution, contract, appointment...)
action, voteResult, voteTally	What happened, when the city records it
agendaNote, minutesNote	Clerk notes
attachmentUrls	Staff reports, contracts, maps and other PDFs for the item
agendaPdfUrl, minutesPdfUrl, meetingUrl	The official documents and the meeting page
eventId, eventItemId	Legistar ids

Turn on includeMatterDetails to add matterTitle, matterIntroDate, matterPassedDate and matterBodyName (one extra request per item). Export as CSV, Excel or JSON, or read it from the API.

Cities supported (18, verified without a token): Seattle, San Jose, Denver, Boston, Phoenix, Oakland, Pittsburgh, Newark, Santa Clara, Cleveland, Kansas City, Columbus, Nashville, Milwaukee, Louisville, Fresno, Sacramento and Baltimore.

Quick start

Press Start with the prefilled form: up to 200 agenda items from the past 7 days and next 30 days in all 18 cities, $0.20 at most.

Zoning and rezoning items in Seattle and Denver:

{ "clients": ["seattle", "denver"], "keywords": ["zoning", "rezone", "land use"], "maxResults": 500 }

Contracts and bids in front of the Phoenix and San Jose councils next month:

{ "clients": ["phoenix", "sanjose"], "keywords": ["contract", "agreement", "bid", "purchase"], "daysBack": 0, "daysAhead": 30 }

Daily alert feed for one committee (schedule it once a day):

{ "clients": ["seattle"], "bodyFilter": "budget", "daysBack": 0, "daysAhead": 14, "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true }

Pricing

$0.001 per agenda item returned ($1 per 1,000 items). No subscription.

You pull	You pay
200 items (the prefilled Start)	$0.20
1,000 items	$1.00
30 new items a day for a month (900 items)	$0.90

With onlyNewSinceLastRun on (the default), items you already received are skipped and never charged again: run it twice with the same input and the second run charges $0. Meetings, unsupported cities and errors are never charged. Use maxResults to cap any run.

Use with the API, n8n, Make, Zapier, Clay or AI agents

API (returns the rows in one call):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/transparent_meteorite~city-council-agendas/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"clients":["denver"],"keywords":["zoning"],"onlyNewSinceLastRun":false}'

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("transparent_meteorite/city-council-agendas").call(run_input={"clients": ["denver"], "keywords": ["zoning"]})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["meetingDate"], item["body"], item["matterFile"], item["title"])

• n8n, Make, Zapier: use the Apify app's "Run Actor" step with actor transparent_meteorite/city-council-agendas on a daily schedule, then post new items to Slack, email or a sheet.
• Clay: add an HTTP API column that calls the run-sync endpoint with a city slug and keyword.
• AI agents (MCP): connect https://mcp.apify.com?tools=transparent_meteorite/city-council-agendas to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client, and ask "what is on the Denver City Council agenda this week?".

Use from AI agents (MCP, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity)

City Council Agendas API works as a tool for AI assistants through the official Apify MCP server. Add this server URL to any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT connectors, VS Code):

https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=transparent_meteorite/city-council-agendas

Claude Desktop / Cursor config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=transparent_meteorite/city-council-agendas",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}

Then ask in plain language, for example: "How can I monitor city council agendas for keywords like zoning or RFP?"

Call it directly over HTTP (runs the actor and returns the dataset items in one request):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/transparent_meteorite~city-council-agendas/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"clients": ["denver", "seattle"], "maxResults": 50, "onlyNewSinceLastRun": false}'

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("transparent_meteorite/city-council-agendas").call(run_input={"clients": ["denver", "seattle"], "maxResults": 50, "onlyNewSinceLastRun": false})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

The same actor works in n8n, Make, Zapier, LangChain, LlamaIndex and CrewAI through their Apify integrations.

Questions people ask

How can I monitor city council agendas for keywords like zoning or RFP? Run this actor with keywords set and onlyNewSinceLastRun true on a schedule; it returns only new matching agenda items.

Which cities are supported? The 18 Legistar cities listed in the input, including Seattle, Denver, Boston and Phoenix.

Do I get the agenda PDFs? Yes, each item links the agenda PDF and attachments when the city publishes them.

Use cases

• Government relations and lobbying: track every item that touches your clients' issues across 18 cities.
• Real estate developers and land-use attorneys: catch rezoning, variance and land-use items before the hearing.
• Contractors and vendors: see contracts, purchases and agreements going to council for approval.
• Local journalists and newsletters: a structured daily feed of what councils are voting on.
• Civic tech and researchers: build searchable archives of local legislation.

FAQ

How do I get city council agendas automatically?

Schedule the actor daily with daysBack: 0, daysAhead: 14, your keywords and onlyNewSinceLastRun on. Each run returns only agenda items you have not seen yet.

How do I track zoning or liquor-license items in my city?

Set clients to your city's slug, keywords to ["zoning","rezone","liquor"], and optionally bodyFilter to planning or land use.

Which cities are covered?

The 18 cities listed above. You can also try any other Legistar client slug (the part before .legistar.com): if it works without a token you get data, and if not you get a clear "unsupported" note and no charge.

Does this include New York, Chicago or Los Angeles?

No. NYC requires a private API token, and Chicago, Austin, Los Angeles and San Francisco are not available on the public Legistar API.

Can I get the agenda PDF and staff reports?

Yes. Each row links the meeting's agenda PDF, the minutes PDF when published, and the item's attachments when the city posts them.

Does it include how each council member voted?

No. You get the result (for example "Pass") when the city records it, not the per-member roll call. Sponsor, mover and seconder names are left out by design.

Does the actor use AI?

No. It reads the official Legistar API and maps the fields, so the text is exactly what the city published.

Limitations

• Legistar only. Cities on other platforms (CivicClerk, PrimeGov, Granicus without Legistar and others) are not covered.
• Fields depend on the city. agendaItemNumber, voteResult, action, attachments and minutes only appear when the city fills them in. In one real Denver/Seattle/Boston sample, about 20% of items had a vote result and 45% an attachment. Future meetings usually have no actions yet.
• Agendas appear when cities post them. Meetings whose agenda is not published yet return no rows.
• Procedural rows (Call to Order, Public Comment) are included as published; use keywords to focus on substantive items.
• Polite by design: at most 4 requests per second with retries, so wide multi-city runs take a few minutes.
• Public records as published by each city, which can change. Check meetingUrl or agendaPdfUrl for the authoritative document.

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Changelog

• 2026-10-07: added plain-language summary, key facts, AI-agent (MCP) section and question-style FAQ; refreshed Store SEO metadata.