Administrative Conference of the United States

Federal Administrative Procedure Sourcebook API

The Federal Administrative Procedure Sourcebook is ACUS's reference wiki covering the core statutes of U.S. federal administrative procedure — the Administrative Procedure Act, FOIA, the Privacy Act, the Government in the Sunshine Act, FACA, the Negotiated Rulemaking Act, the Regulatory Flexibility Act, the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal Access to Justice Act and more. It runs on MediaWiki 1.43.0 and exposes both the MediaWiki Action API at /api.php and the MediaWiki REST API v1 at /rest.php/v1. Both answer anonymously with no API key, account or quota. This is the only programmatically callable interface ACUS operates. Note that every acus.gov host returns HTTP 403 to non-browser user agents, so a client must send a browser-like User-Agent header.

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APIReference

https://sourcebook.acus.gov/api.php

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Documentation

https://sourcebook.acus.gov/wiki/Federal_Administrative_Procedure_Sourcebook

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Authentication

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RateLimits

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Examples

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Conventions

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ErrorCatalog

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: administrative-conference-of-the-united-states:federal-administrative-procedure-sourcebook
name: Federal Administrative Procedure Sourcebook API
description: The Federal Administrative Procedure Sourcebook is ACUS's reference wiki covering the core
  statutes of U.S. federal administrative procedure — the Administrative Procedure Act, FOIA, the Privacy
  Act, the Government in the Sunshine Act, FACA, the Negotiated Rulemaking Act, the Regulatory Flexibility
  Act, the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal Access to Justice Act and more. It runs on MediaWiki 1.43.0
  and exposes both the MediaWiki Action API at /api.php and the MediaWiki REST API v1 at /rest.php/v1.
  Both answer anonymously with no API key, account or quota. This is the only programmatically callable
  interface ACUS operates. Note that every acus.gov host returns HTTP 403 to non-browser user agents,
  so a client must send a browser-like User-Agent header.
humanURL: https://sourcebook.acus.gov/wiki/Federal_Administrative_Procedure_Sourcebook
baseURL: https://sourcebook.acus.gov/api.php
tags:
- Administrative Law
- Administrative Procedure Act
- Legal Reference
- Open Data
- Federal-Government
- MediaWiki
tags_raw:
- Administrative Law
- Administrative Procedure Act
- Legal Reference
- Open Data
- Federal Government
- MediaWiki
properties:
- type: APIReference
  url: https://sourcebook.acus.gov/api.php
- type: Documentation
  url: https://sourcebook.acus.gov/wiki/Federal_Administrative_Procedure_Sourcebook
- type: Examples
  url: examples/administrative-conference-of-the-united-states-sourcebook-api-examples.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/administrative-conference-of-the-united-states-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/administrative-conference-of-the-united-states-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/administrative-conference-of-the-united-states-problem-types.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/administrative-conference-of-the-united-states-rate-limits.yml