Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Edits API

Submission edit and validation reports

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https://cfpb.github.io/api/ccdb/api.html
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https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/documentation/api/data-browser/
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https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/documentation/category/developer-apis

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cfpb/refs/heads/main/openapi/cfpb-edits-api-openapi.yml

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https://github.com/cfpb/ccdb5-api
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https://github.com/cfpb/hmda-platform

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OpenAPI Specification

cfpb-edits-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.0.0
info:
  version: 1.0.0
  title: Consumer Complaint Database Aggregations Edits API
  description: The API for searching the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database, which contains over 15 million consumer financial complaint records.
  termsOfService: https://cfpb.github.io/source-code-policy/
  contact:
    name: Report API Issues
    url: https://github.com/cfpb/ccdb5-api/issues
  license:
    name: Creative Commons License CC0
    url: https://github.com/cfpb/ccdb5-api/blob/main/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/search/api/v1/
  description: Production server
security: []
tags:
- name: Edits
  description: Submission edit and validation reports
paths:
  /institutions/{lei}/filings/{period}/submissions/{submissionId}/parseErrors:
    get:
      tags:
      - Edits
      summary: Get parse errors for submission
      description: Returns parse errors for the transmittal sheet and LAR records in a submission
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/lei'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/period'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/submissionId'
      - name: page
        in: query
        description: Page number (page size is 20)
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 1
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Parse errors with pagination metadata
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ParseErrors'
        '404':
          description: Submission not found
  /institutions/{lei}/filings/{period}/submissions/{submissionId}/edits:
    get:
      tags:
      - Edits
      summary: Get all edits for submission
      description: Returns edits grouped by type (syntactical, validity, quality, macro) for a submission
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/lei'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/period'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/submissionId'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Edits grouped by type
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Edits'
        '404':
          description: Submission not found
  /institutions/{lei}/filings/{period}/submissions/{submissionId}/edits/{editType}:
    post:
      tags:
      - Edits
      summary: Verify quality or macro edits
      description: Marks quality or macro edits as verified for a submission
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/lei'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/period'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/submissionId'
      - name: editType
        in: path
        required: true
        description: The type of edit to verify (quality or macro)
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - quality
          - macro
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                verified:
                  type: boolean
                  description: Whether the edits have been verified
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Edit verification status updated
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/EditVerification'
        '404':
          description: Submission not found
  /institutions/{lei}/filings/{period}/submissions/{submissionId}/edits/{editName}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Edits
      summary: Get edit details
      description: Returns details for a specific edit including affected rows, field names and values, and pagination links
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/lei'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/period'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/submissionId'
      - name: editName
        in: path
        required: true
        description: The name of the specific edit
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Edit details with affected rows
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/EditDetail'
        '404':
          description: Edit not found
components:
  parameters:
    submissionId:
      name: submissionId
      in: path
      required: true
      description: Submission identifier
      schema:
        type: string
        example: B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD-2020-1
    period:
      name: period
      in: path
      required: true
      description: Filing period (year, e.g. 2020)
      schema:
        type: string
        example: '2020'
    lei:
      name: lei
      in: path
      required: true
      description: Legal Entity Identifier of the financial institution
      schema:
        type: string
        example: B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD
  schemas:
    Edit:
      type: object
      properties:
        edit:
          type: string
          description: Edit name/code
        description:
          type: string
          description: Edit description
        rows:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            additionalProperties: true
    EditVerification:
      type: object
      properties:
        verified:
          type: boolean
          description: Whether the edits are verified
        status:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/SubmissionStatus'
    PaginationLinks:
      type: object
      properties:
        href:
          type: string
          description: Template URL for pagination
        self:
          type: string
          description: URL for current page
        next:
          type: string
          description: URL for next page
        prev:
          type: string
          description: URL for previous page
        first:
          type: string
          description: URL for first page
        last:
          type: string
          description: URL for last page
    EditDetail:
      type: object
      properties:
        edit:
          type: string
          description: Edit name
        rows:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            additionalProperties: true
        _links:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/PaginationLinks'
    EditGroup:
      type: object
      properties:
        edits:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Edit'
        verified:
          type: boolean
          description: Whether these edits have been verified (quality and macro only)
    ParseErrors:
      type: object
      properties:
        transmittalSheetErrors:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          description: Errors in the transmittal sheet
        larErrors:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              lineNumber:
                type: integer
              errors:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: string
        count:
          type: integer
          description: Total number of errors
        total:
          type: integer
          description: Total number of records with errors
        _links:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/PaginationLinks'
    Edits:
      type: object
      properties:
        syntactical:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/EditGroup'
        validity:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/EditGroup'
        quality:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/EditGroup'
        macro:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/EditGroup'
    SubmissionStatus:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: integer
          description: Status code
        message:
          type: string
          description: Status message
externalDocs:
  description: Additional API Information
  url: https://cfpb.github.io/api/ccdb/