Parliament Debate Topic Search

Lets researchers search parliamentary transcripts by topic, member, and place instead of reading one debate at a time

Problem

Official parliament sites (like India's sansad.in) only offer raw transcripts with no search or filter by topic, member, or place. Researchers writing theses have to read debates one by one—painfully slow. Other countries' records have similar gaps.

Solution

Scrape and parse parliamentary transcripts, build an index searchable by topic, member, place, and date, and offer a simple search UI with result highlighting. Start with one country/parliament, then expand after validation.

Users

Political science researchers, journalists, policy analysts, civil society organizations

MVP

Scrape historical transcripts of one parliament; index by topic/member/place; search box with filters; keyword highlighting; export quoted snippets.

Revenue

Subscription for research institutions and journalists ($10–20/month); free basic tier for individual researchers; self-hosted for institutions.

Why now

Official data is public but poorly searchable. AI-assisted text processing drastically lowers the cost of scraping and topic tagging. Demand from political science and journalism is real but long ignored—good for an indie niche tool.