Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Typeahead API

These endpoints support the typeahead boxes in the UI

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Operations 3

GET /_suggest Suggest possible searches #

GET /_suggest_company Suggest possible companies #

GET /_suggest_zip Suggest possible zip codes #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  version: 1.0.0
  title: Consumer Complaint Database Typeahead 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: Typeahead
  description: These endpoints support the typeahead boxes in the UI
paths:
  /_suggest:
    get:
      tags:
      - Typeahead
      summary: Suggest possible searches
      description: The endpoint for the main search box in the UI
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/size'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/suggest_text'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: successful operation
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SuggestResult'
        '400':
          description: Invalid input
      operationId: getSuggest
      x-operation-id-source: derived
  /_suggest_company:
    get:
      tags:
      - Typeahead
      summary: Suggest possible companies
      description: Provide a list of companies that match the input text
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/suggest_text'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/size'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/company_public_response'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/company_received_max'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/company_received_min'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/company_response'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/date_received_max'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/date_received_min'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/has_narrative'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/issue'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/product'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/state'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/submitted_via'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/tags'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/timely'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/zip_code'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: successful operation
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SuggestResult'
        '400':
          description: Invalid input
      operationId: getSuggestCompany
      x-operation-id-source: derived
  /_suggest_zip:
    get:
      tags:
      - Typeahead
      summary: Suggest possible zip codes
      description: Provide a list of zip codes that match the input text
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/suggest_text'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/size'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/company_public_response'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/company_received_max'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/company_received_min'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/company_response'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/date_received_max'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/date_received_min'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/has_narrative'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/issue'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/product'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/state'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/submitted_via'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/tags'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/timely'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/zip_code'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: successful operation
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SuggestResult'
        '400':
          description: Invalid input
      operationId: getSuggestZip
      x-operation-id-source: derived
components:
  parameters:
    date_received_min:
      name: date_received_min
      in: query
      description: Return results with date >= date_received_min (i.e. 2017-03-04)
      schema:
        type: string
        format: date
    zip_code:
      name: zip_code
      in: query
      description: Filter the results to only return these zip codes
      explode: true
      schema:
        type: array
        items:
          type: string
    timely:
      name: timely
      in: query
      description: Filter the results to show whether a response was timely
      explode: true
      schema:
        type: array
        items:
          type: string
    date_received_max:
      name: date_received_max
      in: query
      description: Return results with date < date_received_max (i.e. 2017-03-04)
      schema:
        type: string
        format: date
    suggest_text:
      name: text
      in: query
      description: text to use for suggestions
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
    submitted_via:
      name: submitted_via
      in: query
      description: Filter the results to only return these types of way consumers submitted their complaints
      explode: true
      schema:
        type: array
        items:
          type: string
    company_public_response:
      name: company_public_response
      in: query
      description: Filter the results to only return these types of public response by the company
      explode: true
      schema:
        type: array
        items:
          type: string
    has_narrative:
      name: has_narrative
      in: query
      description: Filter the results to only return the specified state of whether it has narrative in the complaint or not, i.e. yes, no
      explode: true
      schema:
        type: array
        items:
          type: string
    state:
      name: state
      in: query
      description: Filter the results to only return these states (use abbreviation, i.e. CA, VA)
      explode: true
      schema:
        type: array
        items:
          type: string
    company_response:
      name: company_response
      in: query
      description: Filter the results to only return these types of response by the company
      explode: true
      schema:
        type: array
        items:
          type: string
    issue:
      name: issue
      in: query
      description: 'Filter the results to only return these types of issue and subissue, i.e. product-only: Getting a Loan, subproduct needs to include product, separated by ''•'', Getting a Loan•Can''t qualify for a loan'
      explode: true
      schema:
        type: array
        items:
          type: string
    company_received_min:
      name: company_received_min
      in: query
      description: Return results with date >= company_received_min (i.e. 2017-03-04)
      schema:
        type: string
        format: date
    product:
      name: product
      in: query
      description: 'Filter the results to only return these types of product and subproduct, i.e. product-only: Mortgage, subproduct needs to include product, separated by ''•'', Mortgage•FHA mortgage'
      explode: true
      schema:
        type: array
        items:
          type: string
    tags:
      name: tags
      in: query
      description: Filter the results to only return these types of tag
      explode: true
      schema:
        type: array
        items:
          type: string
    company_received_max:
      name: company_received_max
      in: query
      description: Return results with date < company_received_max (i.e. 2017-03-04)
      schema:
        type: string
        format: date
    size:
      name: size
      in: query
      description: Limit the size of the results
      schema:
        type: integer
        format: int64
        minimum: 1
        maximum: 100
        default: 10
  schemas:
    SuggestResult:
      type: array
      items:
        type: string
externalDocs:
  description: Additional API Information
  url: https://cfpb.github.io/api/ccdb/