Senate Floor Transcripts API

Note

Assembly transcripts are not available at this time.

Get a single Transcript

Usage

Retrieve transcript by dateTime

(GET) /api/3/transcripts/{dateTime}

Examples

Request transcript 2014-09-03T09:00

/api/3/transcripts/2014-09-03T09:00

Response

Full Transcript Response

{
  "success" : true,                                         // Indicates if a transcript was found.
  "message" : "Data for transcript 2014-09-03T09:00:00",    // Response description.
  "responseType" : "transcript",                            // Response data type.
  "result" : {
    "dateTime" : "2014-09-03T09:00",                        // The date and time of the session.
    "sessionType" : "REGULAR SESSION",                      // Session type
    "location" : "ALBANY, NEW YORK",                        // Location of senate session.
    "text" : "5100\n\n 1     NEW YORK STATE SE.."           // The text of the transcript.
    }
}

Get a transcript pdf

Usage

Retrieve transcript pdf by dateTime

(GET) /api/3/transcripts/{dateTime}.pdf

Examples

Request transcript 2014-09-03T09:00

/api/3/transcripts/2014-09-03T09:00

Get a list of transcripts

Usage

List transcripts within a year

(GET) /api/3/transcripts/{year}

Optional Params

Parameter	Values	Description
limit	1 - 1000	Number of results to return
offset	> 1	Result number to start from
full	boolean	Set to true to see the full transcript responses.
sort	string	Sort by any field from the response.

Examples

List 50 transcripts from 2014

/api/3/transcripts/2014?limit=50

List 50 complete transcripts starting from 51

/api/3/transcripts/2014?limit=50%offset=51&full=true

List 10 complete transcripts sorted by increasing date

/api/3/transcripts/2014?limit=10&full=true

Response

{
  "success" : true,                               // True if request was fine.
  "message" : "",
  "responseType" : "transcript list",
  "total" : 167,                                  // Total transcripts in the listing
  "offsetStart" : 1,                              // Offset value
  "offsetEnd" : 0,                                // To paginate, set query param offset = {offsetEnd + 1}
  "limit" : 10,                                   // Max number of results to show
  "result" : {
    "items": [{ ... }],                           // Array of transcript responses
    "size": 10
  }
}