Introduction
The attendance records of Members at open meetings of the Council and its committees can be found at the Members' Participation Records System since the Sixth Legislative Council *.
The attendance records can be obtained in the form of open data via web application programming interface (API) as described in this page.
Any comments are welcomed (please e-mail to pid@legco.gov.hk).
Web Application Programming Interface (API)
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The web api provides the following information:
- TAttendance (Records of Attendance)
Corresponding to the above information, the open data web api can be run at:
https://app.legco.gov.hk/OpenData/AttendanceDB/TAttendance (JSON format)https://app.legco.gov.hk/OpenData/AttendanceDB/TAttendance?$format=xml (XML format)
To get the meta data schema of the dataset, please run the following:
https://app.legco.gov.hk/OpenData/AttendanceDB/$metadataThe following query string options can be applied:
- $format - specify whether the data to be returned in json or xml format, e.g. $format=json
- $top=N - select only the first N entries of the set, where N is a positive integer, e.g. $top=10
- $skip=N - select only the remaining entries (starting with Entry N+1) where N is a positive integer, e.g. $skip=10
- $orderby - what values are used to order the retrieved data, e.g. $orderby=meeting_start_date_time
- $select - select specific fields to be returned, e.g. $select=meeting_start_date_time,meeting_name_english,member_name_english,present_absent
- $filter - select specific entries according to provided conditions, e.g. $filter=substringof('Meeting of House Committee',meeting_name_english) eq true
- $inlinecount - specify "$inlinecount=allpages" to include the total number of records in the returned data
- $expand - link up data
For the available operators and functions to be used with $filter option, please refer to the documentation of the Open Data Protocol.
Examples
The following examples illustrate some of the ways to retrieve data according to the Open Data Protocol.
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To select the 301st to 320th attendance records (by default in JSON format):
https://app.legco.gov.hk/OpenData/AttendanceDB/TAttendance?$skip=300&$top=20 -
To select the meeting date/time, English meeting name, and English Member name, attendance in XML format from the first 20 attendance records of the meetings of the Panel on Manpower ordered by the meeting date/time:
https://app.legco.gov.hk/OpenData/AttendanceDB/TAttendance?$top=20& $format=xml&$select=meeting_start_date_time,meeting_name_english, member_name_english,present_absent&$orderby=meeting_start_date_time&
$filter=substringof('Panel on Manpower',meeting_name_english) eq true -
To select all attendance records of Hon Abraham SHEK Lai-him in January 2019 ordered by the English meeting name and the meeting start date/time in XML format, together with the total number of records that match the criteria:
https://app.legco.gov.hk/OpenData/AttendanceDB/TAttendance?$format=xml&$inlinecount=allpages&$filter=substringof('Abraham SHEK',member_name_english) eq true and meeting_start_date_time ge datetime'2019-01-01' and meeting_start_date_time lt datetime'2019-02-01'&$orderby=meeting_name_english,meeting_start_date_time