Example request
https://www.daildex.comcurl "https://www.daildex.com/v1/activity?type=vote&representative=jennifer-whitmore&date_start=2026-07-01&date_end=2026-07-09&limit=2"DáilDex API
The Oireachtas record, structured, sourced, and updated in minutes.
Everything DáilDex tracks — votes, Dáil and Seanad contributions, parliamentary questions, committee proceedings — as clean, queryable data, with a source link on every record. Built for teams who need to move fast and cite their source.
Email api@daildex.com
Pricing on request. Tell us what you're building and we'll get back to you.
What it can do
One feed, the whole record. Every field traces back to the official Oireachtas source.
Votes & divisions
Every Dáil and Seanad division, who voted which way, structured and timestamped as it's recorded.
Speeches & contributions
Full Dáil and Seanad contributions by member, topic and date, ready to search or quote.
Parliamentary questions
Written and oral PQs with the question, the reply, and who asked it — matched and structured.
Committee activity
Committee sittings, membership and proceedings, tracked as they're published.
Near real-time updates
The official record is checked continuously. New activity lands in the feed within minutes, not days.
Source on every record
Each entry links back to where it came from on oireachtas.ie, so nothing you publish is unverifiable.
Full historical archive
Not just what's new — the complete backlog, so you can pull trends and context, not just today's snapshot.
Bulk export & search
Query across members, parties and date ranges, and pull results out in the format your workflow needs.
Built for journalists, not for email alerts
This isn't the consumer product with the plain-English inbox alerts. It's the underlying record, for teams who need to check something themselves, on deadline, and cite it.
Verification-first, not summary-first. Every record keeps its original wording and a direct link back to the Oireachtas source, so you're never quoting a paraphrase. Built to answer "did this actually happen, and where's the proof" fast enough to make a deadline.
Deadline speed
Ask a specific question — how did a TD vote, what did a committee hear — and get a sourced answer in minutes, not an afternoon of trawling records.
Nothing paraphrased
Original wording, original timestamps, original source links. What you publish traces straight back to the record.
Newsroom scale
Built for querying across every member and every sitting, not one representative at a time.
World-class infrastructure
Run on the same modern, globally distributed infrastructure that powers DáilDex itself, built to stay fast and stay up.
Fast latency
Edge-served responses built for speed, so a query fits inside a live deadline, not around one.
Built to stay up
Modern, globally distributed infrastructure engineered for reliability when a story breaks.
Access without the risk
Scoped, revocable access. No personal subscriber data is ever included — this is the public record, not our readers' inboxes.
Public API reference
The public-facing surface now exposes structured routes for representatives, recent activity, votes, questions, speeches and legislation.
These routes all return JSON, support pagination, and keep a source URL on every record. Committee-specific feeds are not exposed yet on the public API surface.
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- GET
/v1/representativesRepresentative directory
Search active TDs and Senators by name, area, party or chamber before you pull activity.
Common filters:
q, chamber - GET
/v1/activityCross-record activity feed
One timeline across votes, questions, speeches and legislation with filters for type, member and date range.
Common filters:
type, representative, date_start, date_end, limit, offset - GET
/v1/votesVotes and divisions
Structured voting records with participation, member metadata, date and source links back to the official record.
Common filters:
representative, chamber, date_start, date_end, q - GET
/v1/questionsParliamentary questions
Official question records matched to the representative who asked them, with searchable text and source links.
Common filters:
representative, date_start, date_end, q - GET
/v1/speechesSpeeches and contributions
Debate contributions grouped by representative and document date, ready for search, quoting and monitoring.
Common filters:
representative, date_start, date_end, q - GET
/v1/legislationLegislation tracker
Bill status, current stage and related source metadata for parliamentary monitoring workflows.
Common filters:
date_start, date_end, q, limit, offset
Request and response examples
The API is deliberately plain: predictable route names, conventional query params and stable JSON objects.
Example response
application/json{
"items": [
{
"id": "cf2416bf-8f5d-4f17-a6d5-4ec5318d6c5a",
"type": "vote",
"date": "2026-07-08",
"title": "Motion on housing delivery targets",
"summary": "Passed · Dáil Éireann debate",
"sourceUrl": "https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/vote/dail/34/2026-07-08/12/",
"representative": {
"id": "jennifer-whitmore",
"name": "Jennifer Whitmore",
"area": "Wicklow",
"party": "Social Democrats",
"chamber": "Dáil",
"role": "TD"
},
"participation": "Tá"
}
],
"limit": 2,
"offset": 0
}Client-side fetch
fetchconst response = await fetch(
"https://www.daildex.com/v1/questions?representative=catherine-connolly&limit=1"
);
const data = await response.json();Who it's for
Anyone who needs the Oireachtas record as data, not as a webpage to scrape.
Journalists & newsrooms
Political and investigative reporters who need to check a vote, a quote or a committee record fast, with a source to cite.
Civic-tech & researchers
Academics, transparency projects and civic-tech builders who need structured, historical Oireachtas data at scale.
Developers
Teams building their own tools, dashboards or alerts on top of the official record, without building a scraper first.
Pricing on request.
There's no self-serve signup yet. Email api@daildex.com with what you're building and how much you need, and we'll get back to you.