municipal_portals

The five municipal portals this source covers (Surrey, Victoria, Abbotsford, Vancouver, Chilliwack): eligibility, the licence and the robots.txt evidence behind it, when each was last read, how many datasets it lists, and the reason when a portal is not served. Surrey, Victoria and Abbotsford are served as metadata plus link. Vancouver is blocked by its robots.txt and Chilliwack has no portal. Use it before saying a city has no open data.

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

ParametersCopy Anchor Link

This tool takes no arguments. Send {}.

RESTCopy Anchor Link

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

MCPCopy Anchor Link

Call the tool municipal_portals 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":"municipal_portals","arguments":{}}}'

What comes backCopy Anchor Link

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