Reference

Most active bill authors

Legislators ranked by how many bills they filed in a window — the direct answer to '¿qué congresistas han presentado más proyectos de ley este periodo?', which otherwise means paging a country's whole docket and tallying authors client-side. Pass co_author_of=<actor_id> to turn the same ranking into a co-authorship ranking: who most often co-signs that legislator's bills.

since/until (YYYY-MM-DD) bound the window on the bill's filing date; party_id narrows to one bancada (use list_parties to discover IDs); country_code is comma-separated, omit for every accessible country. Counts distinct bills, so a bill that lists the same author twice still counts once.

⚠️ This ranks who is RECORDED as the author. Coverage is uneven — about 91% of Colombian and Peruvian bills carry an author, but only ~28% in Brazil, Chile and Rep. Dominicana, and none in Venezuela — so in those countries the ranking reflects ingestion as much as activity. Say so rather than presenting it as a complete tally.

get/v1/bill-authors/top

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.dapperglobal.com
  • URL: https://api.dapperglobal.com/v1/bill-authors/top
  • Auth: API key in header X-API-Key

Query parameters

sincestring date nullable

Count bills filed on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).

untilstring date nullable

Count bills filed on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD).

party_idinteger nullable

Only count authors in this party. Use list_parties(country_code=...) for IDs.

co_author_ofinteger nullable

Rank only the people who co-sign this actor's bills, most frequent first — the answer to 'who does X legislate with?'. The actor themself is excluded (they sign all of their own). Resolve the id with list_actors(q='<name>').

limitinteger

How many authors to return, ranked by bills filed in the window (1-50).

country_codestring nullable

Comma-separated country codes, e.g. BR,CO,CL.

country_idstring nullable

Deprecated alias: comma-separated numeric ids, e.g. 8,2,6.

Response

Successful Response

dapper_urlstring nullable

This record's page in the Dapper platform (dapperglobal.com) — hand this to a person who wants the full detail. Use it as given; the routes are not derivable from the payload. null means the record has no page (see the field's per-domain notes), not that the link is missing. Distinct from external_link/congress_records[].link, which point at the original official document.

country_codestring nullable
country_idinteger nullable
idinteger required
namestring nullable
partystring nullable
party_idinteger nullable
countinteger required

Example response

[
  {
    "dapper_url": "https://www.dapperglobal.com/es/co/dashboard/normativas/10720928"
  }
]

Changes

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