#BundestagFirstSaid Bot uses Open Parliament TV API

The Mastodon bot Bundestag First Said, created by Marcel Schneuer, posts words that appear in a plenary protocol of the German Bundestag for the first time. It is based on protocols provided by the Bundestag, which are processed automatically and split into individual words. When a term appears for the first time, the bot publishes a post.

The project includes two accounts: the main bot, @bt_first_said@mastodon.social, publishes the new words. The second account, @FSBT_Kontext@mastodon.social, automatically replies to these posts and adds context. A key component is the integration of the Open Parliament TV API. Through our interface, the detected word is checked again and linked to the relevant speech.

More background on how it works, the practical challenges of parsing/normalization, and the motivation behind the project can be found in Marcel’s project write-up (in DE). The full code is documented on GitHub.