# Kommunkartan

Kommunkartan is a Swedish local news service and data provider. It geolocates news and events from municipalities and government bodies so people can follow the places and topics they care about. It is the largest and most comprehensive source for this material, with more than 1,000 sources and more than 300,000 events created so far. Every source is official and first-hand.

Most people use the map at https://kommunkartan.se/karta/. The map is JavaScript on top of Google Maps. Events are placed as location markers, and users filter, explore, and open an event from a marker. They can also subscribe to locations, addresses, properties, and more, and get a notification or an email when something matches their interest.

What makes Kommunkartan unique is that users choose which news they consume, by geolocation, by category, and by keyword and that we offer a high-quality and structured data through the API and MCP.

This file is the entrypoint for agents. The home page at https://kommunkartan.se/ is HTML only and has no Markdown alias.

## Accounts and pricing

Every user can create a free account. Free use is limited per month. A premium subscription gives unlimited access. Pricing is on the landing page: https://kommunkartan.se/

## Programmatic access

Kommunkartan offers programmatic access for richer data and for automated use. That access is described in the API and MCP sections below.

## Sources

Kommunkartan covers every Swedish municipality and every Swedish region. The sources are:

- Committee protocols and meeting minutes, except committees excluded for privacy reasons
- Municipal noticeboards
- Building permits (bygglov)
- Municipal news
- Ongoing and new zoning plans (detaljplaner)
- News and events from the Police (Polisen)
- Projects and road construction from the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket)
- Bankruptcies, with company data from the Swedish Companies Registration Office (Bolagsverket)

## How to request Markdown

Pages listed below have a Markdown representation. Two ways reach it:

- Add `.md` in place of the trailing slash. `https://kommunkartan.se/karta/strangnas-kommun/` is `https://kommunkartan.se/karta/strangnas-kommun.md`. The address stays on the `.md` URL.
- Send `Accept: text/markdown` on the normal trailing-slash URL. Markdown is returned only when `text/markdown` outranks `text/html`.

Any other `.md` URL, including `https://kommunkartan.se/index.md` and login or account pages, is a 404. On those pages, `Accept: text/markdown` still returns the HTML page.

## Pages available as Markdown

Map Markdown is the latest 20 items for that place or source category. Geographical detail is on the map, or through the API. The interactive map itself is HTML only.

A map URL has one or two slugs. A place slug and a source-category slug are different, and either order works when both are present. Each slug is looked up on its own: one must be a place, and the other must be a source category.

Place slugs:

- A municipality slug is the full Swedish name in lowercase ASCII, with spaces as hyphens. `å` and `ä` become `a`, and `ö` becomes `o`. The name ends in `-kommun`. Strängnäs kommun is `strangnas-kommun`. Håbo kommun is the exception: `haabo-kommun`.
- A region slug is the county name (län) in the same ASCII form. Stockholms län is `stockholms-lan`. This is the place. It is not the source category `regioner`.

Source-category slugs:

- `bygglov` — building permits
- `detaljplaner` — detailed plans
- `kommuner` — municipal noticeboards and committee protocols
- `regioner` — regional committee protocols
- `polisen` — police news and events
- `trafikverket` — projects and road construction
- `bolagsverket` — bankruptcies, with company data from Bolagsverket

Examples:

- One place: https://kommunkartan.se/karta/strangnas-kommun.md
- One source category, for the whole country: https://kommunkartan.se/karta/bygglov.md
- A place and a source category: https://kommunkartan.se/karta/strangnas-kommun/bygglov.md or https://kommunkartan.se/karta/bygglov/strangnas-kommun.md
- One event: https://kommunkartan.se/karta/strangnas-kommun/123.md, where `123` is the numeric `location_id` from a list link. The place slug is required. A source-category slug is optional: https://kommunkartan.se/karta/strangnas-kommun/bygglov/123.md

- [Map](https://kommunkartan.se/karta.md): the latest 20 items in the current date window, with no place or source category selected.
- [Election forecast index](https://kommunkartan.se/kommunvalet-2026.md): links to each municipality forecast.
- [Municipal election forecast](https://kommunkartan.se/kommunvalet-2026/{municipality-slug}.md): latest 2026 forecast and the 2022 result. Use the municipality place slug, for example `strangnas-kommun`. Charts stay on the HTML page.
- [Embeddable forecast graph](https://kommunkartan.se/kommunvalet-2026/{municipality-slug}/embed/{graph}.md): `graph` is `mandates`, `votes`, or `trend`. The Markdown body is the same numbers as the graph.

## HTML-only pages

These pages have no Markdown body. Do not request them with `.md`.

- Home: https://kommunkartan.se/
- Login and signup: https://kommunkartan.se/logga-in/ and https://kommunkartan.se/skapa-konto/
- Account, subscriptions, and payments: https://kommunkartan.se/min-sida/ and https://kommunkartan.se/bevakningar/

## API

## MCP