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API reference
All 279 endpoints in 37 groups, each documented on its own page with parameters, example requests and responses, sources and licences. Base URL https://princegeorgepulse.ca/api/v1. Conventions are on the overview. Machine-readable: OpenAPI 3.1.
About the API #
5 endpoints (Markdown).
/: API index: every endpoint with a link./meta: Site facts, counts and data freshness./pages: Every public page on the site, with its Markdown version./search: Search across site pages, public places, awards categories, schools, outdoor places, businesses, categories, neighbourhoods (and subdivision names), answers, guides, stories, events, jobs, artists, map layers, resources, news, sports teams and clubs./changes: Stable incremental discovery for businesses, events and jobs.
Directory #
12 endpoints (Markdown).
/businesses: Search and list local businesses./businesses/changes: Listings added, changed or removed since a date (incremental sync)./businesses/new: New in town: businesses that opened recently (new City business licences), newest first./businesses/{slug}: One business, with categories, awards and similar businesses./categories: Business categories with counts./categories/{slug}: One category: its guide copy (intro, tips, FAQ) and its businesses./groups: Top-level business groups (Food & Drink, Health, Trades…)./groups/{slug}: One group with its categories./realtors: Real estate agents in Prince George: name, brokerage, published title and designations, languages, business contacts and the official profile link./realtors/brokerages: Real estate brokerage offices in Prince George, with address, phone, website and how many agents we list./realtors/brokerages/{slug}: One brokerage with its listed agents./realtors/{slug}: One real estate agent.
Neighbourhoods #
7 endpoints (Markdown).
/neighbourhoods: The 31 City-mapped neighbourhoods (communities) with area, centre and counts./neighbourhoods/geojson: All neighbourhood boundaries as GeoJSON./neighbourhoods/lookup: Which neighbourhood contains a point./neighbourhoods/aliases: Subdivision and local area names (Southridge, Highland Park, the Hart) and the City neighbourhoods they are in./neighbourhoods/{slug}: One neighbourhood: area, property-crime summary and top businesses./neighbourhoods/{slug}/geojson: One neighbourhood boundary as a GeoJSON Feature./neighbourhoods/stats: Property crime per neighbourhood, last 12 full months (count and per km²).
Food & nightlife #
9 endpoints (Markdown).
/food/places: Places to eat and drink, tagged by cuisine./food/cuisines: Cuisine tags used by /food/places, with counts./food/late-night: Late-night and 24-hour food, with published hours./nightlife: Nightlife overview: tonight, this weekend, weekly regulars, venues, bars, services, rides and night plans./nightlife/venues: Concert halls, arenas, clubs and stages./nightlife/bars: Bars, pubs, breweries, lounges, clubs and games venues with hours and weekly nights./nightlife/events: Upcoming music and nightlife events (evening shows, concerts, DJ nights)./food-trucks: Food trucks and mobile food vendors in Prince George: who they are, cuisine and their own contact links (no live locations)./food-trucks/{id}: One food truck.
Events #
5 endpoints (Markdown).
/events: Upcoming events in Prince George (aggregated calendar), soonest first./events/months: Months with upcoming events, with counts and their month pages./events/categories: Event categories with upcoming counts./events/sources: Calendars the events feed is built from, with status./events/{id}: One event.
Sports #
8 endpoints (Markdown).
/sports/teams: Local teams with league, record, links and data freshness./sports/teams/{id}: One team with its next games, latest results and standings./sports/games: Games: schedule, live scores and results, with filters./sports/standings: Latest standings for the division or conference each team plays in./sports/clubs: Minor and community sports clubs and leagues, with sport, age group and official links./sports/clubs/sports: Sports with the number of clubs for each./sports/clubs/{id}: One club with its upcoming community events./sports/events: Community sports events (bonspiels, tournaments, club events) from clubs’ public listings.
Local artists #
6 endpoints (Markdown).
/artists: Approved local artist profiles: DJs, bands, musicians, comedians, visual artists, dancers and other talent./artists/taxonomy: Artist kinds, kind groups, genres and styles, services, areas and availability./artists/{slug}: One artist profile with bio, socials, featured track and upcoming shows./djs: Approved DJ profiles (kinds dj, crew and company; /artists lists every kind)./djs/taxonomy: Artist kinds, kind groups, genres and styles, services, areas and availability./djs/{slug}: One artist profile with bio, socials, featured track and upcoming shows.
Awards #
4 endpoints (Markdown).
/awards/seasons: PG Pulse Awards seasons with phase and key dates./awards/seasons/{season}: One season with its categories./awards/seasons/{season}/{category}: One award category: nominees, ballot (with trending bands) or winners and finalists, depending on the phase./awards/honours: Awards and nominations for one business, artist or real estate agent.
News & stories #
12 endpoints (Markdown).
/news: Aggregated local news feed (headline, image, short description, link) plus PG Pulse stories, newest first./news/archive: The permanent headline archive: every month with headlines, with counts./news/archive/{year}: One year of the headline archive: its months with headline counts./news/archive/{year}/{month}: Every headline of one month (local time), newest first: headline, source, date and link only./news/trends: What Prince George is talking about: terms rising in local headlines and summaries this week./news/trends/{term}: Daily use of one term in local news: items and distinct publishers per day./news/topics: News topics./news/sources: Every news source with item counts and last fetch status./stories: PG Pulse stories (original articles), newest first./stories/{slug}: One PG Pulse story with its Markdown body./posts: Published PG Pulse posts from the site’s publishing tool (empty until posts exist)./posts/{slug}: One published PG Pulse post with its Markdown body.
Guides #
15 endpoints (Markdown).
/guides/sections: Guide sections: explore, city, visit, civic./guides: Every guide (history, city services, visiting, civic life) with metadata./guides/{section}/{slug}: One guide: metadata, at-a-glance facts, FAQ, official links, sources and the full Markdown body./resources: Resource hub: forms, PDFs, maps, data, apps and phone numbers./visit: Visit roundups (indoor activities, party venues…) with their place counts./visit/{list}: One visit roundup: groups of places with where, what and links, as on the page./trivia: The local trivia quiz: questions, answers (first is correct), explanations and source links./mascot/today: The mascot’s line of the day on the home page (null when none is scheduled)./answers: Answers to the questions residents ask most often: short answer, live values, our pages and official sources./answers/topics: Answer topics with the number of questions in each./answers/{id}: One answer with its live values, our pages and official sources./stays: Where to stay in Prince George: hotels, motels, B&Bs, campgrounds and RV parks from the business directory./visitor-centre: The visitor information centre: address, contact, hours by season (with the current season), services and gear lending./festivals: Annual festivals and big recurring events in and around Prince George: typical month, venue, organiser and the next announced date./nearby-towns: Nearby towns: road distance and drive time from Prince George, highways, current weather and DriveBC road events in town or on the way.
Live conditions #
6 endpoints (Markdown).
/now: Prince George right now: one call for weather, air, river, fire, power, roads, aurora and sun./home: The home page board: Prince George right now in one plain-language sentence, with the figures behind it./happening: Everything happening in Prince George right now, in one list./happening/ended: Alerts, closures and outages that ended recently./smell: Pulp mill smell forecast for Prince George: downwind neighbourhoods and reduced-sulphur readings./smell/readings: Hourly reduced-sulphur (TRS, H2S) and wind readings at the air stations.
Weather #
14 endpoints (Markdown).
/weather: Full weather payload: now, official ECCC forecast, today, yesterday, model hourly and daily, normals, alerts, almanac./weather/now: Current conditions (official observation), today so far and yesterday./weather/official: Environment Canada forecast: text periods (today, tonight, ...) with high/low, POP and UV, and the official 24-hour hourly forecast./weather/observations: Past 24 hours observed at the airport, hour by hour: temperature, dew point, humidity, wind, precipitation, snow depth, pressure, visibility, fog./weather/observations/summary: Observed today so far, pressure trend, snow depth, latest METAR and hours of fog in the past 24 hours./weather/inversion: Inversion watch: the airport (plateau) vs a valley station, now and for the past 24 hours./weather/radar: Radar and lightning frame times (last 3 hours) for the ECCC GeoMet WMS layers, with the map bounding box./weather/almanac: Today in Prince George weather history: records for the date and this month's 1991–2020 normals and extremes./weather/hourly: Hourly forecast (one row per hour: temp, feels, pop, precip, code, wind, gust, dir, uv, isDay)./weather/daily: Daily forecast (up to 14 days) plus the ECCC text forecast./weather/alerts: Active ECCC weather alerts for Prince George./airport: Prince George airport (CYXS) flying conditions: latest METAR, recent observations and the TAF./weather/history: Recorded weather observations: temperature, feels like, humidity, dew point, wind, gusts, pressure, precipitation, visibility, snow depth, valley temperature and the inversion./airport/history: Recorded CYXS METAR values: temperature, wind, gusts, visibility, ceiling, flight category.
Climate #
4 endpoints (Markdown).
/climate: Climate history since 1940: annual series, monthly by year, 1991–2020 baseline./climate/this-day: One calendar day in every year since 1940./climate/normals: Climate normals (1991–2020, with the 1981–2010 set) for Prince George Airport./climate/records: Temperature records: all-time, monthly and every calendar day.
Air & water #
8 endpoints (Markdown).
/air: Air quality: AQHI now/history/forecast, PM2.5 model, monitoring stations./rivers: Fraser and Nechako river gauges: latest level/flow, 24h change, hourly series./rivers/stations: Gauge stations used by PG Pulse./rivers/history: Historical daily statistics and records for each gauge./water-quality: City drinking water: wells, quality summary and monthly production./wildlife: Recent research-grade iNaturalist sightings within 25 km, with photo credits./air/history: Recorded air quality: AQHI and PM2.5 (model and monitoring stations)./rivers/{id}/history: Recorded water level and flow for one gauge (hourly from the real-time feed).
Hazards #
8 endpoints (Markdown).
/wildfire: Wildfires near Prince George, season stats, danger rating, bans and evacuations./earthquakes: Earthquakes within about 400 km over the last year./roads: DriveBC road events within 150 km./aurora: Planetary K-index (aurora chances): now, observed and 3-day forecast./webcams: DriveBC highway cameras within 60 km (image links are DriveBC’s own)./wildfire/history: Recorded wildfire counts and area burned in the Prince George Fire Centre./roads/history: Recorded DriveBC event counts within 150 km./aurora/history: Recorded planetary K-index.
Power #
3 endpoints (Markdown).
/power/outages: BC Hydro outages within 150 km, plus regional and provincial totals./power/rates: BC Hydro residential rates (tiered, flat and time-of-day)./power/outages/history: Recorded BC Hydro outage counts and customers affected (nearby, Northern region, province).
Safety #
4 endpoints (Markdown).
/crime: Property-crime summary (last 12 full months vs the 12 before): by type, month, neighbourhood, hour and weekday./crime/points: Property-crime occurrences from the last 12 full months as points./crime/occurrences: Every property-crime occurrence row since 2021 (date, type, neighbourhood, lat, lng, hour)./crime/severity: Crime severity index and clearance rates since 2000, Prince George vs BC.
People & economy #
13 endpoints (Markdown).
/markets: Economy pulse: USD/CAD, Bank of Canada policy rate, national and BC inflation./people: People of Prince George: census headline numbers and population trend./census: The full 2021 Census profile for Prince George (every table)./economy: Economy: labour force (annual and monthly), consumer prices, industries, occupations, incomes./housing: Housing: rents, vacancy, prices, starts, supply, housing target and census housing./land: Land and resources: geography, water, forests, mining and energy, farmland./move: Moving to Prince George: the compiled facts behind the moving guide./move/newcomers: Newcomers and students: first-weeks steps with the local office for each, and the bus routes and neighbourhoods serving each campus./people/brief: Prince George in brief: every population figure labelled with its geography (city, census agglomeration, population centre, regional district) and date./people/origins: Census tables on who lives in Prince George: religion, ethnic or cultural origin, visible minority, place of birth, generation, immigration, citizenship, languages and Indigenous identity, with British Columbia and Canada./people/history: Change over time, 2001 to 2021: visible minority groups, Indigenous identity, immigrants, generation status, religion and ethnic origins in Prince George./people/projections: Population estimates and projections to 2046 for Prince George, its regional district and the province, with age groups and five-year age pyramids for every year./people/notable: Notable people born in or living in Prince George (from Wikidata).
Jobs #
8 endpoints (Markdown).
/jobs: Open job postings in Prince George, newest first, with search and filters./jobs/categories: Job categories with open-posting counts./jobs/employers: Employers with open postings, most first./jobs/top-employers: Top employers in Prince George (City of Prince George list) with their current openings here./jobs/market: Job market context: latest Labour Force Survey figures for the local economic region and the province (keyscaribooandbcare kept for compatibility)./jobs/stats: Job-market stats from the posting history: open, new and closed postings per week, by category and top employers./jobs/sources: Sources the jobs feed is built from, with status and counts./jobs/{id}: One job posting.
City data #
20 endpoints (Markdown).
/permits: Building permit applications: recent permits and totals./bylaws: Municipal bylaws: search by number or words, filter by type, year or decade./bylaws/stats: How many bylaws by type and decade, and how many are consolidated or commonly requested./bylaws/{number}: One bylaw by number, with the bylaw it amends and the bylaws that amend it./development: Building permits, rezonings, development permits and subdivisions, searchable by street./development/summary: Building permits so far this year against the same stretch of last year, and open planning applications./development/{folder}: One permit or application by City folder number./service-requests: What residents report to the City: counts by topic, type and neighbourhood./service-requests/weekly: Weekly service request counts (weeks start Monday), overall or for one type, topic or neighbourhood./service-requests/types: Every service request type, with its topic and count over the last year./zoning: What can I build here? Zone, plan designation, overlays and permit areas for an address or point./zoning/addresses: Civic address suggestions (autocomplete) for the zoning lookup./zoning/small-scale-housing: Small-scale multi-unit housing (provincial rules as the zoning bylaw applies them): homes per lot, conditions and the zones they cover./zoning/layers: Zoning and planning layers we keep: where each comes from and when it was last fetched./zoning/definitions: Defined terms of the zoning bylaw./zoning/definitions/{slug}: One defined term of the zoning bylaw./zoning/amendments: Rezonings and text amendments to the zoning bylaw, newest first./zones: Every zone of the zoning bylaw: what it allows and its limits, in plain language./zones/{code}: One zone: what it allows, its limits and recent rezonings to or from it./zones/{code}/areas: Where a zone applies: its polygons on the City’s zoning map (simplified).
Civic #
9 endpoints (Markdown).
/council/votes: How council voted: every recorded council vote of the current term, with each member’s vote./council/votes/summary: Council voting record overview: coverage, totals and neutral counts per member./civic: Everything civic: party standings, representatives, councils, elections, official links, ways to get involved./civic/representatives: Who represents Prince George: MPs, MLAs, mayor and council, regional government and First Nations councils./civic/officials: Current MPs, MLAs, mayor and councillors as a flat list./civic/meetings: City council and committee meetings with links to agendas, minutes and video./civic/elections: Upcoming and recent elections affecting Prince George./civic/results: Election results: BC ridings since 2013, federal ridings since 2015, City mayor and council since 2014./civic/results/candidates: Every candidate result as a flat, filterable list (one row per candidate per race).
Indigenous Prince George #
1 endpoint (Markdown).
/indigenous: Indigenous Prince George: the territory, key facts, timeline, places, nations, organisations, events, words, reading.
Maps #
2 endpoints (Markdown).
/maps/layers: Every map layer (parks, trails, playgrounds, washrooms, EV chargers, schools…)./maps/layers/{id}: One map layer as a GeoJSON FeatureCollection.
Transit #
10 endpoints (Markdown).
/transit/routes: Prince George Transit routes with colours and headsigns./transit/stops: Bus stops (search by name, route or distance)./transit/stops/{id}/departures: Next departures at a stop (real-time where available) plus relevant service alerts./transit/shapes: Route lines as GeoJSON (one MultiLineString per route)./transit/routes/{id}: One route: colours, headsigns, its stops and its line as GeoJSON./transit/feed: The schedule PG Pulse holds: GTFS feed version, service dates and counts, and when it was loaded./transit/alerts: BC Transit service alerts for Prince George (detours, cancellations), current and recent, kept in the PG Pulse database./transit/fares: Prince George Transit fares and passes, copied from BC Transit's fares page./transit/handydart: handyDART accessible door-to-door service in Prince George: who can use it, how to register and book, fare and contacts./transit/vehicles: Live bus positions and current service alerts.
Garbage & recycling #
5 endpoints (Markdown).
/garbage/lookup: Find the garbage/recycling zone for an address or a point./garbage/suggest: Address suggestions (autocomplete) with zones./garbage/schedule: Dated pickup schedule for a zone (garbage, recycling, holidays, events)./garbage/zones: City garbage collection zones as GeoJSON./services/fees: Landfill tipping fees as published by the operator.
Datasets #
6 endpoints (Markdown).
/datasets: Index of every reference dataset behind the dashboards, with where it comes from and how fresh it is./datasets/{id}: One reference dataset, exactly as the site uses it./datasets/{id}/records: A curated dataset as records (one per item: a place, a venue, a section), with when each was last changed./datasets/{id}/series: A statistics dataset as tidy rows: series, period, value (filter by series and period)./media: Images hosted by PG Pulse: photo library, guide and dataset images, portraits, heritage photos and business screenshots, with alt text, credit and licence./media/{id}: One hosted image.
History #
3 endpoints (Markdown).
/history/series: Every recorded live series: id, label, unit, number of readings and date range./history: Time series for one or more recorded series (temperature, river level, outages…) between two dates./live/sources: Freshness of every live source: when it was last fetched, its cache lifetime and the last error.
Key services #
6 endpoints (Markdown).
/services/places: Public services directory: government offices, health care, courts, social services, recreation, schools, utilities and more, with hours and an open-now state./services/places/{id}: One public service place./services/needs: Needs used to group the public services directory, with place counts./services/sources: Every source page the services, emergency and getting-around data cite, with the result of the latest automated re-check./services: Key services datasets: waste and recycling sites, health care, pharmacies, libraries, government and post offices, police and ambulance./services/{id}: One key-services dataset: places with address, hours, fees, accepted materials and a source link per place.
Emergency #
8 endpoints (Markdown).
/emergency/contacts: Emergency, non-emergency, crisis and reporting phone numbers for Prince George, each verified on its official page./emergency/care: Where to get care now: hospital emergency, urgent and primary care, clinics, with open-now state./emergency/prepare: Emergency preparedness links: alert sign-up, evacuation zones and reception centre, provincial emergency information./emergency/alerts: Live alerts affecting Prince George: weather and air quality warnings, evacuation orders and alerts, fire bans, road closures, power outages, transit disruptions./emergency/evacuation: Pre-planned evacuation zones and evacuation assembly points in Prince George./emergency/zone: Which evacuation zone an address or point is in, and the nearest assembly points./emergency/departments: Emergency department status: open, closed overnight or temporarily closed./emergency/departments/history: Emergency department status changes, newest first.
Taxes & fees #
2 endpoints (Markdown).
/taxes: Prince George property tax rates by class, utility rates, the home owner grant, city fees and comparisons with other BC cities./taxes/estimate: Estimate the property tax on a Prince George home from its assessed value.
Getting around #
10 endpoints (Markdown).
/airport/info: Prince George Airport (YXS): airlines and destinations, parking rates, taxis, rental cars and shuttles, and where to check flight times./intercity: Intercity buses and trains from Prince George (BC Bus North, VIA Rail, Ebus, Northern Health Connections, Route 161), with the next VIA Rail train times./taxis: Taxi and ride-share services confirmed to operate in Prince George./roads/highways: Highways out of Prince George, winter tire rules and DriveBC links (live road events are at /roads)./ev-chargers: Public EV charging stations in Prince George: ports, power, connectors, network and hours./fuel/prices: Average pump prices in Prince George: regular, premium, diesel and auto propane, latest day and week, with the change and comparisons./fuel/prices/history: Average pump price history: daily or weekly city averages for one product, for the city, comparison cities and Canada./fuel/stations: Gas stations, cardlocks, propane and car washes in Prince George, with brand, address, directions and the directory listing./road-closures: City road closures and lane restrictions, now and coming up./road-closures/map: Road closures, detours and block points as GeoJSON.
Advertising #
2 endpoints (Markdown).
/ads: Paid ad campaigns running today, with their placements./ads/featured-listings: Directory listings featured (sponsored) today.
Community #
19 endpoints (Markdown).
/community: Community directory overview: counts and freshness of every list./community/worship: Places of worship: tradition, denomination, address, website and languages (when published)./community/charities: Registered charities in the city (CRA List of charities, all categories)./community/child-care: Licensed child care facilities with ages served, languages, hours and current vacancies./community/care-homes: Long-term care, assisted living and hospice: licensed facilities with bed counts, plus the public services directory’s care listings./community/heritage: Heritage register properties, downtown heritage signs (in walking order) and public art, with locations./community/on-this-day: On this day: people born in the city, openings and events on a calendar day (Wikidata)./community/groups: Clubs and groups: arts, music, theatre, social, seniors and science clubs from the municipal recreation directory./community/meet: Volunteering, service clubs, newcomer, hobby and social groups (hand-checked)./community/help: Help by topic: food, shelter and housing, crisis lines, mental health and addictions, legal, family, youth, seniors, newcomers, disability, Indigenous, income./community/unions: Union locals and labour councils with who they represent and official links./community/media: Local media: newspapers, online news, radio and TV stations with owners, frequencies and news-tip contacts./community/facebook-groups: Public Facebook groups and pages about the city: names, purpose and links only./community/landmarks: Landmarks with locations and one-line descriptions./facilities: Public and community facilities in Prince George: city hall, pools, arenas, sport centres, libraries, community halls, event centres, theatres, galleries and museums./facilities/{slug}: One facility by slug, with the upcoming events listed there./schools: K-12 schools in and around Prince George: public, francophone and independent, with grades, enrolment, French programs and address./schools/post-secondary: Universities, colleges and other post-secondary campuses in Prince George, plus early learning and official school links./schools/{id}: One school by provincial school number or slug.
Living #
4 endpoints (Markdown).
/costs/household: Household cost estimate: rent or property tax, electricity, natural gas, City utilities, gasoline and transit, monthly and yearly./costs/rates: The rates and published averages behind the household cost calculator, each with its source and date./internet/providers: Internet providers in the city or a neighbourhood: technologies and how much of the area each reports covering./internet/neighbourhoods: Home internet by neighbourhood: providers reporting fibre and cable, and how many home and mobile providers.
City #
3 endpoints (Markdown).
/holidays: Statutory holidays, with what changes in the city on each one (buses, garbage pickup)./holidays/next: Today’s or the next statutory holiday, with what changes./holidays/calendar: Every holiday with a page, statutory or not: dates this year and next, and what changes.
Outdoors #
10 endpoints (Markdown).
/fishing: Lakes and rivers near Prince George with the fish species recorded in them./fishing/species: Sport fish recorded near the city, with how many lakes and rivers have each./fishing/guide: Fishing: regulation region, licence and regulation links, key dates, safety links and tackle shops./fishing/{slug}: One lake or river and the fish recorded in it./hunting: Hunting near Prince George: Wildlife Management Units, regulation region, official links, key dates, courses, shops and game processors./hunting/units/{id}: One Wildlife Management Unit with its (simplified) boundary as GeoJSON./ranges: Shooting and archery ranges and clubs near Prince George, and firearms and hunter course providers./outdoors: Outdoor places 150 km around Prince George: provincial parks, recreation sites and trails, campgrounds, lakes, boat launches, swimming spots, waterfalls, summits, huts, ski and sledding hills./outdoors/categories: Outdoor place categories and activities with counts, the region, sources and current BC Parks advisories./outdoors/{slug}: One outdoor place: details, driving directions (when the source publishes them), drive time, sites on its shore and places nearby.
City spending #
8 endpoints (Markdown).
/spending: City spending and pay at a glance: totals by year for suppliers, grants, contract awards, council and staff pay./spending/suppliers: Payments to suppliers over $25,000 by year, as the City reports them./spending/grants: Grants and contributions over $25,000 by year, as the City reports them./spending/contracts: Contracts the City awarded: bid number, method, description, vendor, amount and date, newest first./spending/remuneration/council: Mayor and council pay, vehicle allowance, expenses and benefits by year./spending/remuneration/staff/summary: Staff paid over the threshold: count, total, median and pay bands for a year, by department./spending/remuneration/staff: Staff paid over the threshold by year, by name, as the City publishes them./spending/council-years: Who sat on council each year: the mayor and councillors as the City lists them.
