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[European Parliament MCP Server API](../../../../modules.md) / [clients/ep/jsonLdHelpers](../README.md) / extractDateValue

# Function: extractDateValue()

> **extractDateValue**(`dateField`): `string`

Defined in: [clients/ep/jsonLdHelpers.ts:70](https://github.com/Hack23/European-Parliament-MCP-Server/blob/main/src/clients/ep/jsonLdHelpers.ts#L70)

Extracts an ISO 8601 date string from various EP API date formats.

## Parameters

### dateField

`unknown`

Raw date field from EP API

## Returns

`string`

`YYYY-MM-DD` string, or empty string if not parseable
