Search what U.S. officials said on camera, with timestamps and citations. Not a government site.
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Totals for the whole index: items and hours by source, date range, last update, items awaiting review and known gaps. Cite this with any count. For the list of sessions use govtube_list_sessions.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
No parameters | |||
| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| notes | Yes | |
| videos | Yes | |
| sources | Yes | |
| by_timing | Yes | |
| known_gaps | Yes | |
| total_hours | Yes | |
| total_words | Yes | |
| awaiting_review | Yes | |
| last_event_date | Yes | |
| first_event_date | Yes | |
| last_ingested_at | Yes |
Return speaker turns overlapping [start_ms, end_ms] with their text, for checking context.
Not available for official transcripts without timing (timing_granularity "document"): read those at the
result's document_url, or resolve the citation for the surrounding turns.| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| end_ms | Yes | End, in milliseconds; at most 5 minutes after start_ms. | |
| start_ms | Yes | Start, in milliseconds from the start of the video, e.g. an instance's start_ms minus 30000. | |
| video_id | Yes | video_id from a search result. |
| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| result | Yes |
Metadata, speakers, playback asset and the rights and use restrictions of the video's source.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| video_id | Yes | video_id from a search result. |
| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| video | Yes | |
| rights | Yes |
The indexed sessions (videos and official transcripts), newest first, one page at a time: title, date, source, length, words, whether it plays, and how many speakers are confirmed.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | No | Sessions per page, 1 to 100. | |
| cursor | No | next_cursor from the previous page (same filters). | |
| source | No | Only one source: house_floor_clerk (U.S. House floor), senate_floor_and_committees (U.S. Senate floor and committee hearings) or govinfo_dcpd (White House transcripts, no video timing). | |
| date_to | No | Latest event date, YYYY-MM-DD. | |
| date_from | No | Earliest event date, YYYY-MM-DD. |
| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| total | Yes | |
| sessions | Yes | |
| next_cursor | Yes |
Page through one video's matches by passage, in time order.
A passage is a run of instances whose excerpts overlap, shown as one quote. `offset` and `limit` count
passages; `next_offset` is null on the last page. `passage_count` and `instance_count` cover the whole
video. With detail="full", `instances` also lists every instance of the page one by one.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | No | Passages per page, 1 to 100. Default 10, or 20 with detail="full". | |
| query | Yes | The same query as the search. | |
| detail | No | compact (default): small pages, passages only. full: the larger pages of the REST API (default 10 videos x 5), with every instance listed one by one as well as in passages. | compact |
| offset | No | Passages to skip; use next_offset from the previous page. | |
| speaker | No | Bioguide ID of a member of Congress, e.g. 'C001053' (Rep. Tom Cole). Matches speakers a person has confirmed. Names matched only from the on-screen caption are left out (the result counts them in unreviewed_excluded) unless include_unreviewed is true. Omit to search everyone. | |
| video_id | Yes | video_id from a search result. | |
| include_unreviewed | No | With speaker: also return moments where that person was named from the on-screen caption and nobody has reviewed the name yet. They are labelled 'matched from on-screen name, not reviewed'; say so when you quote them. |
| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| notes | Yes | |
| video | Yes | |
| offset | Yes | |
| rights | Yes | |
| passages | Yes | |
| instances | No | |
| next_offset | Yes | |
| more_passages | Yes | |
| passage_count | Yes | |
| instance_count | Yes | |
| unreviewed_excluded | No |
Check that a cited instance still says the quoted words after corrections, and return its context.
The result has a share_url to link. gd2./gd1. ids cite words in an official transcript: the result has
positions instead of times, citation_text to paste, document_highlight_url, and `certifies` saying what is
(and is not) certified.| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| citation_id | Yes | An instance id (gt2.... or gd2...., or an older gt1.... or gd1....). |
| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| note | Yes | |
| signed | No | |
| status | Yes | |
| video_id | Yes | |
| withheld | No | |
| certifies | No | |
| cited_rev | Yes | |
| share_url | Yes | |
| current_rev | Yes | |
| quoted_text | Yes | |
| replacement | No | |
| canonical_id | No | |
| corrected_at | No | |
| document_url | No | |
| citation_text | No | |
| low_confidence | No | |
| current_position | No | |
| current_start_ms | Yes | |
| replacement_note | No | |
| original_position | No | |
| original_start_ms | Yes | |
| timing_granularity | No | |
| transcript_context | No | |
| document_highlight_url | No |
Find spoken instances of words or a phrase across official videos and White House transcripts.
Returns one small page: counts for the whole result, then up to 5 videos (newest first, or most instances
first with sort="most_instances"), each with up to 3 passages (quotes; overlapping instances merged), each
passage listing its instances with citation id and share_url. `notes` and `more_passages` say what else
there is: use `next_cursor` for more videos, govtube_list_video_instances for the rest of one video, and
detail="full" for larger pages. White House transcripts have no timing (`timing_granularity` "document",
null times, a `position` and a `document_url`).
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| sort | No | newest (default): event date, newest first. most_instances: most instances first; check order_exact in the response. | newest |
| query | Yes | Words to find. Put an exact phrase in double quotes: "no tax on tips". Unquoted words must occur within 8 words of each other. | |
| cursor | No | next_cursor from the previous page of the same search (same query and filters). | |
| detail | No | compact (default): small pages, passages only. full: the larger pages of the REST API (default 10 videos x 5), with every instance listed one by one as well as in passages. | compact |
| source | No | Only one source: house_floor_clerk (U.S. House floor), senate_floor_and_committees (U.S. Senate floor and committee hearings) or govinfo_dcpd (White House transcripts, no video timing). | |
| date_to | No | Latest event date, YYYY-MM-DD. | |
| speaker | No | Bioguide ID of a member of Congress, e.g. 'C001053' (Rep. Tom Cole). Matches speakers a person has confirmed. Names matched only from the on-screen caption are left out (the result counts them in unreviewed_excluded) unless include_unreviewed is true. Omit to search everyone. | |
| date_from | No | Earliest event date, YYYY-MM-DD. | |
| max_videos | No | Videos per page, 1 to 25. Default 5, or 10 with detail="full". | |
| include_unreviewed | No | With speaker: also return moments where that person was named from the on-screen caption and nobody has reviewed the name yet. They are labelled 'matched from on-screen name, not reviewed'; say so when you quote them. | |
| max_instances_per_video | No | Passages per video, 1 to 20 (with detail="full", also instances). Default 3, or 5 with detail="full". |
| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| sort | Yes | |
| notes | Yes | |
| query | Yes | |
| counts | Yes | |
| detail | Yes | |
| limits | Yes | |
| videos | Yes | |
| next_cursor | Yes | |
| order_exact | Yes | |
| normalized_query | Yes | |
| unreviewed_excluded | No |
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