Canadian MPs API

Use this API when you need a clean lookup layer for Canadian parliamentary people and representation history. It exposes normalized JSON endpoints with practical filters, source metadata, and lightweight reference tables so developers can add lookup and discovery features without maintaining their own scraper or curation pipeline.

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Use Cases

power civic education tools
normalize Canadian political history lookups
filter MPs by party, province, and parliamentary era

Access

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Endpoints

GET/api/canadianmps/members

List Canadian MPs or filter by province, party, era, riding, name, or free text.

Query parameters: province, party, era, riding, name, q, limit

/api/canadianmps/members?name=example&q=example

GET/api/canadianmps/provinces

List provinces and territories represented in the directory.

/api/canadianmps/provinces

GET/api/canadianmps/parties

List political parties represented in the directory.

/api/canadianmps/parties

GET/api/canadianmps/sources

List Wikipedia categories used for collection.

/api/canadianmps/sources

Pricing

Basic: $0/day for 10 requests. Evaluation tier for testing the API in prototypes.
Pro: $9/month for 10000 requests. Small production apps, internal tools, and niche content sites.
Business: $29/month for 100000 requests. Higher-volume apps, catalog enrichment, and recurring data workflows.

Data Notes

Source: Wikipedia. Refresh cadence: 14d. Records include source attribution when exposed by the API response.

Primary table: members