Expanding Coverage

How we add cities

We rely on standardized platforms that provide structured, machine-readable data through public APIs. This lets us add new jurisdictions quickly and reliably without building custom code for each one.

Currently, we support cities using:

• Legistar — Used by major cities like Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, and New York City.
• Municode Meetings — Used by cities like Fort Collins, Indianapolis, Norman, and many smaller municipalities.

When a city uses one of these platforms with public API access, we can usually add it within a day.

Note: Even when a city is supported, data availability varies. Some boards may have years of meeting history while others have little or none — it depends on what the municipality has published.

Why some cities can't be added

Many smaller towns and some larger cities use systems that don't provide public APIs:

• PDF-only websites: Meeting documents posted as PDFs with no structured data. We'd need to scrape HTML and parse PDFs, which breaks when layouts change.
• Proprietary systems: Custom or vendor-locked platforms without public access.
• No online presence: Some small towns still manage meetings on paper or local-only systems.

Building one-off scrapers for each of these is fragile, legally uncertain (terms of service), and doesn't scale. We focus our effort on platforms that unlock many cities at once.

Requested but not available

These places were requested but currently can't be supported.

Platforms we're evaluating

These platforms could unlock coverage for many new cities. We're investigating their API availability and feasibility.

What increases our priority

• Demand: Request your city — we prioritize based on how many people ask.
• Platform coverage: Cities on platforms we're evaluating may get added when we support that platform.
• API availability: If your city's vendor offers a public API, let us know.