Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the OpenParliament Canada API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the OpenParliament Canada API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fapi.openparliament.ca%2Fopenparliament-ca" | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fapi.openparliament.ca%2Fopenparliament-ca" | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with OpenParliament Canada API.

List bills before the Canadian Parliament with /bills/ and inspect a specific bill via /bills/{bill_id}/

Browse parliamentary votes through /votes/ to track how legislation progressed

List MPs and senators with /politicians/ and look up an individual by slug via /politicians/{politician_slug}/

Read debate transcripts from /debates/ for context on policy discussions

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Use Cases

Patterns agents use OpenParliament Canada API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Civic Transparency Dashboard

Build a public dashboard that surfaces recent bills, votes, and debates from the Canadian Parliament by combining /bills/, /votes/, and /debates/ feeds. The dashboard can highlight new legislation, link to vote breakdowns, and embed transcript snippets - all from primary government sources. The API requires no authentication, so it can be used directly from a civic-tech site without managing keys.

Fetch /bills/ filtered to the current session, then for each bill call /votes/ to attach the most recent vote outcome and render a dashboard card.

Politician Voting Record Lookup

Answer questions about how a specific MP or senator has voted by combining /politicians/{politician_slug}/ with /votes/. Journalists, advocacy groups, and constituents can build pages that show a politician's recent votes alongside their profile, sourced from OpenParliament.ca rather than scraped from PDFs. The slug-based lookup keeps URLs stable and shareable.

Resolve the politician slug for the named MP, GET /politicians/{slug}/ for the profile, and join with recent /votes/ entries that include their vote.

Legislative Research Assistant

Power a research assistant that summarises the status and content of pending legislation by reading /bills/{bill_id}/ for the bill text and /debates/ for the discussion around it. Researchers and policy analysts can produce briefing notes faster by pulling structured data instead of navigating the parliamentary website. Committee context can be added from /committees/ where relevant.

Given a bill id, fetch /bills/{bill_id}/, retrieve associated /debates/ entries, and produce a one-paragraph status summary citing the latest action.

AI Agent Civic Assistant via Jentic

Run an agent that answers natural-language questions about Canadian Parliament - for example, 'what did my MP vote on last week' or 'what is bill C-12 about'. Jentic returns the matching OpenParliament operation by intent so the agent does not need to memorise paths or slug formats, and responses are grounded in the official record.

Search Jentic for 'list canadian parliament bills', load the GET /bills/ schema, execute filtered to the current session, and return a structured summary of the top five active bills.

Key Endpoints

7 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for openparliament canada api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/bills/

List bills

GET

/bills/{bill_id}/

Retrieve a single bill

GET

/votes/

List votes

GET

/politicians/

List politicians

GET

/politicians/{politician_slug}/

Retrieve a politician by slug

GET

/debates/

List debates

GET

/committees/

List committees

GET

/bills/

List bills

GET

/bills/{bill_id}/

Retrieve a single bill

GET

/votes/

List votes

GET

/politicians/

List politicians

GET

/politicians/{politician_slug}/

Retrieve a politician by slug

GET

/debates/

List debates

GET

/committees/

List committees

Why Jentic?

What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.

Setup

Wiring the OpenParliament Canada API by hand means learning its bill, vote, politician, and debate resource shapes and paging through federal records yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import OpenParliament from the API Directory, and your agent calls it, no key to manage since the API is open.

Permission scoping

OpenParliament is read-only over federal parliamentary records, so scope the agent to the operations it needs, such as listing bills, votes, and politicians, and leave out others unless you add them. You choose the allowed operations, so the agent only calls what you list.

Credential isolation

This API needs no credential, and any header your Jentic One instance does store is kept encrypted and injected at execution time. Nothing sensitive enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'find a Canadian federal bill' or 'look up a politician's votes', and Jentic returns the matching OpenParliament operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

FAQs

Specific to using OpenParliament Canada API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for OpenParliament Canada API?

OpenParliament.ca does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call OpenParliament Canada API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started with Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer.

What authentication does the OpenParliament Canada API use?

The OpenParliament.ca API is unauthenticated. The spec defines no security schemes, so requests can be made without an API key or token. When using Jentic, no credential needs to be vaulted - Jentic invokes the operation directly.

Can I look up an MP's voting record with this API?

Yes, indirectly. Use GET /politicians/{politician_slug}/ to confirm the politician and GET /votes/ to retrieve the votes feed. The votes payload includes the politicians involved, so you can filter to a specific MP's record by their slug.

What are the rate limits for the OpenParliament Canada API?

The spec does not declare numeric rate limits. Because the API is open and unauthenticated, callers should be considerate - paginate /bills/, /votes/, and /debates/ rather than scraping in tight loops, and cache results that do not change between sessions.

How do I retrieve a specific bill through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'get a Canadian Parliament bill by id', load the GET /bills/{bill_id}/ schema, and execute with the bill identifier. With `pip install jentic` the entire flow is one search and one execute() call, and no credential handling is required.

Is the OpenParliament Canada API free?

Yes. OpenParliament.ca is an open civic-tech project and the API is free to use. There are no paid tiers exposed in the spec; please respect the project's stated usage guidance and consider supporting the project if you depend on it.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the OpenParliament Canada API?

Yes. Because you self-host Jentic One, your own rules decide which OpenParliament operations the agent may call, and this API is read-only over federal parliamentary records. You can scope the agent to just the operations it needs, such as listing bills, votes, and politicians, and leave out debates or committees unless you add them. The agent only calls the operations you list, and since the API is unauthenticated there is no credential to hand over.

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For Agents

Read Canadian Parliament data - bills, votes, politicians, debates, and committees - without authentication, suitable for civic and research agents.

Use for: List recent bills before the Canadian Parliament, Get details for bill C-18, Find all votes on climate-related bills, Look up the politician with slug 'justin-trudeau'

Not supported: Does not cover provincial legislatures, election results, or campaign finance - use for Canadian federal parliamentary records only.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for OpenParliament Canada API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. OpenParliament.ca exposes Canadian federal Parliament data - bills, votes, politicians, debates, and committees - through a simple read-only HTTP API. Applications can list bills and pull a specific bill by identifier, browse votes, look up a politician by slug, and read transcripts of debates and committee proceedings. The API is unauthenticated and aimed at civic transparency tools, journalists, researchers, and AI agents that need a structured view of Canadian parliamentary activity.

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