BC Data docs

link_only_sources

Official pages for B.C. data that is link-only (flights, transit, outages, ferries, policing, education, health dashboards, animal welfare, fishing regulations and stocking)

Where to find seventeen public B.C. sources that this server only links to, with what each page offers and why it is not copied: YVR flight status, TransLink and BC Transit schedules (GTFS), BC Hydro outages, Vancouver Police GeoDASH, BC Ferries schedules, B.C. police resources and use of force reports, the Student Transitions Project, BCCDC dashboards, B.C. university institutional research pages, TransLink ridership, Vancouver rapid transit stations, the BC SPCA and a government farm animal welfare FAQ, and freshwater fishing regulations, fish stocking reports and DFO Pacific entry points. Returns official links, coverage as the page describes it, the access limit, the date access was checked and what was not checked. Links only: no schedule, outage, crime, wait or case figure is ever returned.

Cost: 1 unit of your allowance (see Rate limits).

Parameters

  • topic (yvr-flights, translink-gtfs, bctransit-gtfs, bchydro-outages, vpd-geodash, bcferries-schedules, police-resources, student-transitions, bccdc-dashboards, postsecondary-institutional-research, translink-ridership, vancouver-rapid-transit-stations, bc-spca, bc-farm-animal-welfare-faq, bc-freshwater-fishing-regulations, ffsbc-stocking-reports, dfo-pacific-recreational-fishing, bc-legislature-members-history, bc-hydro-site-and-rates, fortisbc-site-and-rates, bcuc-site, nrcan-ev-charging-locator, cer-bc-energy-profile, infrastructure-canada-projects, bc-legislative-library-lists, bc-auditor-general-reports, bc-ombudsperson-reports, bc-rcy-reports, bc-budget-2026, eccc-aqhi, optional)

REST

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/v1/tools/link_only_sources \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

MCP

Call the tool link_only_sources with these arguments. Over raw JSON-RPC:

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"link_only_sources","arguments":{}}}'

What comes back

Every answer is the same envelope, over REST and over MCP: available, data, citations, freshness and notes. See Citations and freshness.

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