Australian Energy Market Commission Glossary API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: AEMC Energy Rules Glossary API
  version: '2026-07-27'
  description: 'Machine-readable description of the undocumented JSON API that serves the Australian Energy Market Commission''s Energy Rules application at https://energy-rules.aemc.gov.au. It exposes the consolidated, versioned text of the National Electricity Rules (NER), National Gas Rules (NGR) and National Energy Retail Rules (NERR) — the rule versions and their PDF/DOCX artefacts, the table of contents, every chapter/part/division/rule/clause node, the full-text search index and the complete defined-terms glossary.


    AEMC publishes NO OpenAPI, no developer portal and no API documentation for this surface. This document is DERIVED, not harvested. Every path below is a literal route string taken from AEMC''s own shipped production JavaScript bundle (https://de4oj9etm9d7w.cloudfront.net/b8470902-3d28-4902-8883-2c59d10e7818/js/app.js), and each one was probed live and anonymously on 2026-07-27 with the observed HTTP status recorded in `x-evidence`. Response schemas are derived ONLY from responses actually observed on those probes — no field, parameter or status code is invented.


    ACCESS: entirely anonymous. No API key, no OAuth, no cookie and no CSRF token was required for any read endpoint probed; responses carry `x-ratelimit-limit: 1000` and `x-ratelimit-remaining`, served through AWS API Gateway (`apigw-requestid`) in front of a Laravel application (Laravel API Resource `data`/`links`/`meta` envelope, Laravel-style pagination).


    NOT MODELLED: the production bundle also contains an administrative, token-gated approval route of the form `/api/v1/{type}/{version}/approve/{token}` used by the editorial preview workflow. It is a state-changing endpoint, it was deliberately NOT probed, and it is deliberately not modelled here. The `previewToken` query parameter that several read endpoints accept belongs to the same editorial preview workflow and is not usable anonymously.


    STATUS: this is an undocumented internal API of a public website, not a product AEMC offers or supports. There is no published terms-of-use, rate-limit policy, SLA, versioning policy or contact for it. Treat it as subject to change without notice, and report inaccuracies rather than treating this document as an authoritative contract.'
  contact:
    name: AEMC
    url: https://www.aemc.gov.au/contact-us
  x-provenance:
    generated: '2026-07-27'
    method: derived
    sources:
    - https://de4oj9etm9d7w.cloudfront.net/b8470902-3d28-4902-8883-2c59d10e7818/js/app.js
    - live anonymous HTTP probes 2026-07-27
    note: Not published by AEMC. Derived by API Evangelist from AEMC's own production client bundle plus live anonymous probes of every route.
servers:
- url: https://energy-rules.aemc.gov.au/api/v1
  description: Production
tags:
- name: Glossary
  description: Defined terms for a rule version.
paths:
  /rules/{versionId}/glossary/menu:
    get:
      operationId: getGlossaryMenu
      summary: Get the glossary index, grouped by first letter
      description: Returns every defined term in a rule version grouped by its first character, as the letter navigation for the glossary. Verified live 2026-07-27 for NER v251.
      tags:
      - Glossary
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/VersionId'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Terms grouped by first letter.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: object
                    description: Map of letter (or digit) to the list of defined terms beginning with it.
                    additionalProperties:
                      type: array
                      items:
                        type: string
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
      x-evidence:
        probed: '2026-07-27'
        requests:
        - url: https://energy-rules.aemc.gov.au/api/v1/rules/803/glossary/menu
          status: 200
          bytes: 8986
  /rules/{versionId}/glossary/by-letter/{letter}:
    get:
      operationId: listGlossaryTermsByLetter
      summary: List defined terms beginning with a letter
      description: Returns the full definition record for every defined term in a rule version beginning with the given letter, including HTML and plain-text definitions, alternative forms, the chapter the term is sourced from and whether it is a global definition.
      tags:
      - Glossary
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/VersionId'
      - name: letter
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Single letter or digit group, lower case (e.g. `a`, `3`).
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Glossary entries for the letter.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/GlossaryEntry'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
      x-evidence:
        probed: '2026-07-27'
        requests:
        - url: https://energy-rules.aemc.gov.au/api/v1/rules/803/glossary/by-letter/a
          status: 200
          bytes: 18489
  /rules/{versionId}/glossary/{termIdentifier}:
    get:
      operationId: getGlossaryTerm
      summary: Resolve one defined term
      description: Returns the definition of a single defined term by its identifier (the `term_identifier` returned by the glossary listings, e.g. `term_aarr`). The client strips a leading `#` from anchor links before calling this endpoint.
      tags:
      - Glossary
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/VersionId'
      - name: termIdentifier
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          examples:
          - term_aarr
      responses:
        '200':
          description: One glossary definition.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  success:
                    type: string
                  data:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      term_id:
                        type: string
                      term:
                        type: string
                      definition:
                        type: string
                        description: HTML definition body.
                  metadata:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      lookup:
                        type: string
                      version:
                        type: integer
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
      x-evidence:
        probed: '2026-07-27'
        requests:
        - url: https://energy-rules.aemc.gov.au/api/v1/rules/803/glossary/term_aarr
          status: 200
          bytes: 275
components:
  schemas:
    GlossaryEntry:
      type: object
      properties:
        global:
          type: integer
        sort_index:
          type: integer
        sourced_from:
          type: string
          description: Chapter the definition comes from, e.g. "chapter 10".
        term_identifier:
          type: string
        alternatives:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        alternative_identifier:
          type: string
        term:
          type: string
        alternative_term:
          type: string
        definition:
          type: string
          description: HTML definition body with cross-links to other defined terms.
        text_definition:
          type: string
        parent_chapter:
          type: integer
        links:
          type: object
          properties:
            self:
              type: string
              format: uri
    Error:
      type: object
      description: Error envelope observed on 404 responses. Not RFC 9457 problem+json.
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
          examples:
          - Not found
  responses:
    NotFound:
      description: No such rule version, content node or term.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  parameters:
    VersionId:
      name: versionId
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The rule version **id** (the `id` field of a rule version object, e.g. 803 for NER v251) — NOT the human-facing version number. Passing the version number returns HTTP 404.
      schema:
        type: integer
        examples:
        - 803