US Government APIs? [closed]

Answer 1

You should check out the collection civic APIs that are listed here:

https://live.temboo.com/library/keyword/civic/

Answer 2

I'm not sure if it addresses exactly your concerns but the Watchdog site tries to do something like this. Their source is available online and they extract a lot of information from public records. A lot of the published stuff is in rather antiquated formats (huge zipped XML files) and so the whole process is not totally straightforward.

Answer 3

We publish feeds of all legislative information for the New York State Senate, with an API, at: http://open.nysenate.gov/legislation/developers

Answer 4

Although they aren't APIs, www.data.gov provides official data sets, which can be mined. For now, I think this is the closest you're going to get to an official, centralized source of data.

Check out ProgrammableWeb's list of government-related APIs. Not all of them are the US federal government, so you might need to sift through it a bit. Also, they're not all provided directly by the government.

There's also an open source project that provides an API for thomas.loc.gov.