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Riigikogu open data API (Estonian Parliament)

Estonian Parliament: documents, sittings, votes and members, via a keyless REST API

Freeauth: noneCC-BY-SA-3.0✓ verified Nov 13, 2026

Free?: FreeFree keyless REST API.
Sign-up?: None neededCall it straight away
Commercial use?: YesCC-BY-SA-3.0, with credit

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License note: CC-BY-SA-3.0: the provider names the Creative Commons 3.0 BY-SA licence and links the CC BY-SA 3.0 Estonia legal code. Personal data: public office-holder data only; Signal Lab links only; no profiling or contact harvesting.
Required attribution: Required by CC BY-SA 3.0: credit the Riigikogu and share alike.

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Riigikogu open data API (Estonian Parliament)

The Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu) offers a keyless REST API for its open data, such as documents, sittings, votes and members, as JSON.

Coverage

Estonian Parliament: documents, sittings, votes and members, via a keyless REST API.

Good for

#research-grey-literature#estonia#parliament#api#open-data#government

Verdict

An official parliamentary source for Estonian legislative tracking, alongside scottish-parliament-open-data-api. Licence: CC-BY-SA-3.0: the open-data page says "Terms and conditions of the Creative Commons 3.0 BY-SA licence apply to the use of open data." and links the CC BY-SA 3.0 Estonia legal code. Rate limits: the page says "To ensure service stability, a maximum of 1 request per second is allowed from a single IP address, and a maximum of 12 requests per minute is allowed per URL (endpoint/path)." Personal data: public office-holder data only; Signal Lab links only; no profiling or contact harvesting. Signal Lab links only.

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Free limits & license

Price	Free
Auth	none
Free tier	Free keyless REST API.
Rate limit	1 request per second per IP address and 12 requests per minute per URL (Riigikogu open-data page).
License	CC-BY-SA-3.0
License note	CC-BY-SA-3.0: the provider names the Creative Commons 3.0 BY-SA licence and links the CC BY-SA 3.0 Estonia legal code. Personal data: public office-holder data only; Signal Lab links only; no profiling or contact harvesting.
Last verified	Nov 13, 2026

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Quick facts

Provider: riigikogu.ee
Type: Dataset
Category: Research & Grey Literature
Domain: Research & Grey Literature
Auth: none
Free tier: Free keyless REST API.
Rate limit: 1 request per second per IP address and 12 requests per minute per URL (Riigikogu open-data page).
License: CC-BY-SA-3.0
License note: CC-BY-SA-3.0: the provider names the Creative Commons 3.0 BY-SA licence and links the CC BY-SA 3.0 Estonia legal code. Personal data: public office-holder data only; Signal Lab links only; no profiling or contact harvesting.
Verified: Nov 13, 2026

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Fetch https://signal-lab.qdt.ai/catalog.json, find slug "riigikogu-open-data-api", and write a Python loader that pulls data from Riigikogu open data API (Estonian Parliament) into a pandas DataFrame.  Respect rate limits and follow provider terms.

// Full record · catalog.json

name: Riigikogu open data API (Estonian Parliament)
slug: riigikogu-open-data-api
category: Research & Grey Literature
domain: Research & Grey Literature
type: Dataset
sitePageUrl: https://signal-lab.qdt.ai/datasets/riigikogu-open-data-api
providerUrl: https://www.riigikogu.ee/en/open-data/
badge: Free
auth: none
freeTierLimits: Free keyless REST API.
rateLimits: 1 request per second per IP address and 12 requests per minute per URL (Riigikogu open-data page).
docsUrl: https://www.riigikogu.ee/en/open-data/
coverage: Estonian Parliament: documents, sittings, votes and members, via a keyless REST API.
lastVerified: 2026-11-13
evidenceUrls: https://www.riigikogu.ee/en/open-data/
https://api.riigikogu.ee/api/documents?size=1
tasks: research-grey-literature
estonia
parliament
api
open-data
government
license: CC-BY-SA-3.0
licenseUrl: https://www.riigikogu.ee/en/open-data/
licenseNote: CC-BY-SA-3.0: the provider names the Creative Commons 3.0 BY-SA licence and links the CC BY-SA 3.0 Estonia legal code. Personal data: public office-holder data only; Signal Lab links only; no profiling or contact harvesting.
attribution: Required by CC BY-SA 3.0: credit the Riigikogu and share alike.

// The same record over MCP

Request · get_entry

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_entry",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "riigikogu-open-data-api"
    }
  }
}

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// Full record · catalog.json

// The same record over MCP

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