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The Riksdag — Sweden's parliament

Name: The Riksdag — Sweden's parliament
License: Proprietaer

Riksdagen Open Data provides machine access to all members of the Riksdag, parliamentary documents (prop, mot, bet, sou, ip, fr, prot), votes and speeches. No authentication required. Free use. Issue #1171.

500K rows

Data volume

Daily

Updates

MCP tools

Example response — /connectors/riksdagen/members

{
  "data": "..."
}

MCP integration

Available MCP tools

riksdagen.dokument

riksdagen.ledamoter

riksdagen.voteringar

Configuration for Claude Desktop / Cursor

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "riksdagen": {
      "url": "https://data.ketl.no/mcp/riksdagen",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer $KETL_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Analysis apps that use this source

Ready-made tools built on The Riksdag — Sweden's parliament data. Use them directly in the browser, or wire the same data into your own analysis via the API below.

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The Riksdag

Search Swedish parliamentary documents (bills, motions, committee reports, SOU) and browse current and historical members of the Riksdag with party filters — via the Riksdag's open data API.

API endpoints

GET

/members

Riksdagsledamöter (filtrer på parti/status)

party optional: Partiforkortelse (f.eks. S, M, SD)
status optional: Nåværende eller historiske ledamöter

Show curl example

# GET https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/riksdagen/members
curl \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/riksdagen/members"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

GET

/documents

Parlamentsdokumenter (prop, mot, bet m.fl.)

typ optional: Riksdagen dokumenttype (prop, mot, bet, …)
q optional: Fritekstsøk i tittel og ingress (ord for ord, AND). Gjelder feed-vinduet, ikke Regjeringen.nos arkiv. q=klima
rm optional: Riksmøte-sesjon (format YYYY/YY, f.eks. 2024/25)
p optional: Sidenummer for paginering (1-basert) p=2
size optional: Antall treff per side (1–100, default 20). Kilden kan levere noen flere rader enn bedt om for høye verdier — verdien styrer sidestørrelsen, ikke et eksakt radantall (#5809). size=20

Show curl example

# GET https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/riksdagen/documents
curl \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/riksdagen/documents"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

GET

/votes

Voteringer i Riksdagen (filtrer på sesjon/parti)

rm optional: Riksmøte-sesjon (format YYYY/YY)
bet optional: Betänkande-beteckning
sz optional: Antall treff (1–100)

Show curl example

# GET https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/riksdagen/votes
curl \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/riksdagen/votes"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

Access and pricing

The Riksdag — Sweden's parliament is openly available — create an account to get started.

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