Updates and News

Rebuilt scrapers (2026/03/07)

Around February 22nd, an update to eScribe broke the London's frontend for listing and accessing meetings. This means that the normal page I crawled to download meetings was inaccessible, and that the scrapers were unable to update the archive. To prevent this issue from happening again, the scrapers have been designed to pull content directly from eScribe, and not through the unreliable city website.
(The city has still not fixed their frontend, and have instead decided to use eScribe's clunky display)

The new scrapers are also able to support any municipality which is using eScribe. While I only plan on supporting London in this archive, you may contact me if you need full data dumps of other cities.

LPS and LTC meetings added (2026/02/10)

All available meetings from the London Police Service and London Transit Commission have been added to the archive. This archive is focused mainly on the government itself, but the LPS and LTC are too well connected with the city to be excluded.

Attachments for the LTC meetings were only available as normal web pages, so I have converted them to PDFs. None of the actual information has changed, but the formatting may be different. If you notice errors, please contact me and I will correct them. LTC meetings from before 2014 were recovered from the Wayback Machine, so that collection will be incomplete.

LPS meetings from before 2024 would not always show links to agendas, minutes, or attachments. Everything listed was archived, but there may be missing material on the LPS's end.
The specific websites used to grab meetings are listed below:

Early meetings added (2025/12/16)

Over 2300 meetings documents from 2000 to 2010 have been added to the archive. These have been scraped from old Wayback Machine crawls, so the documents available will be ones that people specifically wanted to back up, or random selections from bots. As a result, the added documents will be incomplete. However, this partial collection will serve as a starting point for filling in more pre-eScribe documents.
The specific locations used to recover documents are listed below: