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>>theamk+(OP)
Very cool, I was thinking about building a similar thing when I saw the Flock discourse, but got busy with the holidays.

Any interesting technical details? Getting the actual data from govt meetings looked like it was the hardest part to me.

>>Chrisb+f3
Not OP, but I automate collecting public meeting data from various local agencies across the US. The below resources might be helpful. Public meeting video can be captured using yt-dlp (and if not made public, obtained with a FOIA request), archived, transcribed, etc. Sometimes there is an RSS feed, otherwise use an LLM provider as an extractor engine against the target datastore.

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2025/apr/16/keeping-l...

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/mar/27/automatin...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pX_xcj-p0vA

https://documentcloud.org/add-ons/MuckRock/Klaxon/

https://documentcloud.org/

https://muckrock.com/

>>toomuc+w6
I _think_ (but am not actually certain) we're monitoring more municipal agencies at CivicBand, but I know some of the folks at MuckRock and the work they're doing is absolutely critical.