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Library of Congress Congress.gov API

Coverage and update timing vary by Congress.gov collection because records arrive through exchanges with the House and Senate. List endpoints return 20 records by default and at most 250 per request, with offset pagination; the service permits 5,000 requests per hour.

Open api.congress.gov
Signal Scoredraft model
82
Access
Free key · free API key
15
Licence clarity
Provider terms · terms linked
13
Evidence
4 source links checked
18
Freshness
verified 2026-11-02
20
Documentation
docs · limits · coverage
16

// Terms and limits

Access
free API key
Free tier
A free api.data.gov key is required. List responses default to 20 records and are capped at 250 records per request.
Rate limits
5,000 requests per hour
Licence
Provider termsterms
Licence note
The provider says the public may view, retrieve and re-use the API's machine-readable Congress.gov data, but does not name a single data licence for every underlying collection. The Library says its U.S. Government works are available worldwide under CC0 while third-party or collection material can carry other rights.
Attribution
No attribution requirement recorded.

// Evidence · verified 2026-11-02

  1. 01api.congress.gov/
  2. 02api.congress.gov/sign-up/
  3. 03github.com/LibraryOfCongress/api.congress.gov/
  4. 04www.loc.gov/legal/security-copyright-and-privacy/understanding-copyright/

// Good for

osintevent-datahistorical-datatime-series

// The same record, for agents

Request · get_entry
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_entry",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "congress-gov-api"
    }
  }
}
Reply · selected fields
{
  "name": "Library of Congress Congress.gov API",
  "slug": "congress-gov-api",
  "domain": "OSINT",
  "type": "Dataset",
  "badge": "Free",
  "auth": "free API key",
  "rateLimits": "5,000 requests per hour",
  "license": "Provider terms",
  "licenseUrl": "https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/api.congress.gov/",
  "lastVerified": "2026-11-02",
  "evidenceUrls": [
    "https://api.congress.gov/",
    "https://api.congress.gov/sign-up/",
    "https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/api.congress.gov/",
    "https://www.loc.gov/legal/security-copyright-and-privacy/understanding-copyright/"
  ],
  "tasks": [
    "osint",
    "event-data",
    "historical-data",
    "time-series"
  ],
  "providerUrl": "https://api.congress.gov/"
}

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