Developer Resources

Questions and Feedback

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APIs

American Job Center Resources APIs
American Job Center partners with O'Net to provide a variety of APIs that are useful for jobseekers.
Style: RESTful APIs
Read the Documentation.

BusinessUSA Resource Access API
BusinessUSA connects businesses to government services and information. The API provides access to resource abstracts including programs, services, data, events, and more.
Style: RESTful API
Return Format: XML, CSV
Read the Documentation.

Citizen Topics API
This API lists the topics that we use to organize content on USA.gov. You can access it via the /tags call to the Social Media Registry.
Style: RESTful API
Return Format: HTML5, JSON, XML
Read the Documentation.

Corporate Consumer Contact API
This API returns a manually curated list of contact information for consumer-related corporations.
Style: RESTful API
Return Format: JSON, JSONP, XML
Read the Documentation. Explore the Interactive Documentation.

DigitalGov Search API (formerly USASearch)
Provides DigitalGov Search customers with results. This API is only available for use on official government websites. Sign in is required.
Style: RESTful API (requires DigitalGov Search account)
Return Format: JSON, JSONP, XML
Read the Documentation.

Federal Agency Directory API
This API contains directory information about federal agencies, such as contact methods, in English and Spanish.
Style: RESTful API
Return Format: JSON, JSONP, XML
Read the Documentation. Explore the Interactive Documentation.

Federal Mobile Product API
This API contains native and hybrid apps, responsive sites and mobile websites from across the government, in English and Spanish.
Style: RESTful API
Return Format: JSON, JSONP
Read the Documentation. 

Go.USA.gov API
Go.USA.gov is a URL shortener for government employees. The API can shorten, preview, and show clicks on short URLs.
Style: RESTful API
Return Format: JSON, JSONP, XML, plain text
Read the Documentation.

Government Jobs API
This API returns job openings across the federal government and includes all current openings posted on USAJobs.gov that are open to the public and located in the United States. It also includes some state and local government jobs.
Style: RESTful API
Return Format: JSON
Read the Documentation.

MyUSA APIs
Project MyUSA re-imagines how citizens interact with government. Use the MyUSA API to build apps that integrate with MyUSA.
Style: RESTful APIs (requires authentication and registration)
Read the Documentation.

Product Recall Data API
This API returns food recalls from FoodSafety.gov, car recalls from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and product safety recalls from the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Style: RESTful API
Return Format: JSON
Read the Documentation.

Social Media Registry API
The Social Media Registry is an official source of information about federal government social media accounts.
Style: RESTful API
Return Format: HTML5, JSON, XML
Read the Documentation.

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Data Feeds

1.USA.gov Data
1.USA.gov URLs are created whenever anyone shortens a .gov or .mil URL using bitly.com.
Style: Raw pub/sub feed
Return Format: JSON
Read the Documentation.

Frequently Asked Questions XML
The contents of our frequently asked questions are available in English and Spanish.
Style: XML data file
Read the Documentation.

List of Non-.gov URLs in Our Search
We search across all federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government websites. Most government websites end in .gov or .mil, but many do not. This is a list of all government URLs that do not end in .gov or .mil.
Style: JSON, TXT file
Read the Documentation.

RSS Directory
Find feeds from across government.
Style: RSS

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