Parliamentary Services Public API - New South Wales

The following API's allow the user to consume Hansard documents and metadata.

https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/year
https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/bydate
https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/daily/fragment
https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/daily/fragment/html
https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/daily/pdf
https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/daily/searchablepdf
https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/daily/tableofcontents
https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/daily/tableofcontentsbydate
https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/daily/bySpeaker
https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/daily/byBill
https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/sittingdate
https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/sittingdatetype

Read Data

Pick a simple read interface such as /api/hansard/search/year/2016 to retrieve all of the published hansard transcripts for 2016.

For example:

curl https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/year/2016

which will return you a JSON object of:

[{
    "date": "2016-03-22",
    "style": "",
    "tooltip": "",
    "Events": [{
        "Chamber": "Legislative Assembly",
        "PdfDocId": "HANSARD-1323879322-69495",
        "TocDocId": "HANSARD-1323879322-69359",
        "Uncorrected": false
    }, {
        "Chamber": "Legislative Council",
        "PdfDocId": "HANSARD-1820781676-64623",
        "TocDocId": "HANSARD-1820781676-64511",
        "Uncorrected": false
    }]
}, {
    "date": "2016-03-21",
    "style": "",
    "tooltip": "",
    "Events": [{
        "Chamber": "Legislative Assembly",
        "PdfDocId": null,
        "TocDocId": null,
        "Uncorrected": false
    }, {
        "Chamber": "Legislative Council",
        "PdfDocId": "HANSARD-1820781676-64622",
        "TocDocId": "HANSARD-1820781676-64460",
        "Uncorrected": false
    }]
}]

Get Hansard By Year

This function allows a user to get all hansards by year METHOD: GET PARAMETERS: year (integer)

https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/year/{year}

Get Hansard By Date

This function allows a user to get detailed hansard by date

METHOD: GET

PARAMETERS: date (date in UTC format) e.g. 2016-04-21

https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/bydate?date={date}

Get Hansard By Document Id

This function allows a user to get a specific Hansard fragment raw XML file

METHOD: GET

PARAMETERS: documentId (string)

https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/daily/fragment/{documentId}

Get Hansard HTML By Document Id

This function allows a user to get a specific Hansard fragment JSON Payload

METHOD: POST

PARAMETERS: documentId (string)

https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/daily/fragment/html/{documentId}

Get Hansard PDF By Document Id

This function allows a user to get a specific Hansard Daily PDF (post-1991)

METHOD: GET

PARAMETERS: documentId (string)

https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/daily/pdf/{documentId}

Get Hansard PDF By Document Id

This function allows a user to get a specific Hansard Daily PDF File (pre-1991)

METHOD: GET

PARAMETERS: documentId (string)

https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/daily/searchablepdf/{documentId}

Get Hansard Table of Contents XML By Document Id

This function allows a user to get a specific Hansard Table of Contents raw XML File

METHOD: GET

PARAMETERS: documentId (string)

https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/daily/tableofcontents/{documentId}

Get Hansard Table of Contents JSON By Document Id

This function allows a user to get a specific Hansard fragment XML File

METHOD: POST

PARAMETERS: documentId (string)

https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/daily/tableofcontentsbydate/{documentId}

Get Hansard By Speaker

This function allows a user to get specific Hansard's by speaker

METHOD: GET

PARAMETERS: speakerName (string), parliamentSessionId (integer), startDate (string), endDate (string), houseCode (string), memberId (integer), rowLimit (integer)

speakerName can be either a last name or a name in the format "LastName, Title, Preferred or FirstName". E.g. "Doe", "Doe, Mr, John" or "Doe, Mr, Johnny". If providing only a last name you can provide a wildcard "*" at the end of the name to match more than one name. E.g. providing "Smit*" will match "Smit", "Smith", "Smithy" and so on.
parliamentSessionId is the database Id of a parliament session.
startDate/endDate must be in the format yyyy/mm/dd. Search is inclusive.
houseCode is either "LH" or "UH".
memberId is the database Id of a Member.
rowLimit is used to limit the number of records returned.

All parameters are optional subject to the following restriction: * You must provide either a parliamentSessionId or a startDate and endDate or a memberId.

The most straightforward query provides only a start and end date and a speaker name. For example: * https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/byspeaker?startDate=2019/01/01&endDate=2019/06/01&speakerName=Smith, Mr, John

https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/byspeaker?

Get Hansard By Bill

This function allows a user to get specific Hansard's by Bill

METHOD: GET

PARAMETERS: billName (string)

https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/daily/bybill?billName=""

Get Sitting Days

This function allows a user to get a list of sitting days

METHOD: GET

https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/sittingdate

Get Sitting Day Types

This function allows a user to get a list of sitting day types

METHOD: GET

https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/sittingdatetype

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