Public Hearing Transcripts API

Note

Assembly public hearings are not available at this time.

Get a single Public Hearing

Usage

Retrieve public hearing by filename

(GET) /api/3/hearings/{filename}

Examples

Request public hearing “10-29-13 NYsenate_Flanagan_Education_FINAL.txt”

/api/3/hearings/10-29-13 NYsenate_Flanagan_Education_FINAL.txt

Response

Full Public Hearing Response

{
  "success" : true,                               // Indicates if a public hearing was found.
  "message" : "Data for public hearing 10-29..",  // Response description
  "responseType" : "hearing",                     // Response data type
  "result" : {
    "filename" : "10-29-13 NYsenate_Flanagan..",  // Filename of public hearing transcript
    "title" : "PUBLIC HEARING THE REGENTS RE..",  // Title of public hearing
    "date" : "2013-10-29",                        // Date of public hearing
    "address" : "Senate Hearing Room\n250 Br..",  // Address of public hearing
    "committees" : [ {                            // List of committees/task forces/other groups holding the hearing
      "name" : "EDUCATION",                       // Name of committee/task force/other group
      "chamber" : "SENATE"                        // Chamber of committee
    } ],
    "startTime" : "10:00",                        // Time the public hearing started
    "endTime" : "14:00",                          // Time the public hearing ended
    "text" : "\n\n\n       1     BEFORE THE NE.." // The text of the public hearing
    }
}

Get a public hearing pdf

Usage

Retrieve public hearing pdf by filename

(GET) /api/3/hearings/{filename}.pdf

Examples

Request public hearing 09-12-13 NYSsenate_DeFrancisco_Buffalo_FINAL.txt

/api/3/hearings/09-12-13 NYSsenate_DeFrancisco_Buffalo_FINAL.txt.pdf

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Get a list of public hearings

Usage

List public hearings within a year

(GET) /api/3/hearings/{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 public hearing responses.
sort	string	Sort by any field from the response.

Examples

List 50 public hearings from 2014

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

List 50 complete public hearings starting from 51

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

List 10 complete public hearings sorted by increasing date

/api/3/hearings/2014?limit=10&full=true&sort=dateTime:ASC

Response

{
  "success" : true,                               // True if request was fine.
  "message" : "",
  "responseType" : "hearing-id list",
  "total" : 451,                                  // Total public hearings 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 public hearing responses
    "size": 10
  }
}