Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Search API

The Search API from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — 3 operation(s) for search.

OpenAPI Specification

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openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database Aggregations Search API
  description: Public REST + JSON API for searching the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Consumer Complaint Database (CCDB), a daily-updated record of complaints submitted by consumers about financial products and services and the companies that respond to them. The API powers the public CCDB search experience at consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints and is documented at cfpb.github.io/ccdb5-api.
  version: '1'
  contact:
    name: CFPB Open Tech
    url: https://cfpb.github.io/
  license:
    name: Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal
    url: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
servers:
- url: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/search/api/v1
  description: Production CCDB search API
tags:
- name: Search
paths:
  /:
    get:
      operationId: searchComplaints
      summary: Search complaints
      description: Full-text search across the Consumer Complaint Database with faceted filters and pagination.
      tags:
      - Search
      parameters:
      - name: search_term
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Free-text search across complaint narratives.
      - name: field
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - all
          - complaint_what_happened
          - company_public_response
      - name: frm
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 0
        description: Result offset (0-based).
      - name: size
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 25
          maximum: 100
      - name: sort
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - relevance_desc
          - relevance_asc
          - created_date_desc
          - created_date_asc
      - name: format
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - json
          - csv
      - name: date_received_min
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date
      - name: date_received_max
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date
      - name: company
        in: query
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
      - name: product
        in: query
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
      - name: state
        in: query
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
            minLength: 2
            maxLength: 2
      - name: tags
        in: query
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Matching complaints
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchResponse'
            text/csv: {}
  /{complaintId}/:
    get:
      operationId: getComplaint
      summary: Get a single complaint by ID
      tags:
      - Search
      parameters:
      - name: complaintId
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A single complaint
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Complaint'
        '404':
          description: Not found
  /suggest/:
    get:
      operationId: getSuggestions
      summary: Autocomplete suggestions
      tags:
      - Search
      parameters:
      - name: text
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: size
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 10
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Suggestion list
          content:
            application/json: {}
components:
  schemas:
    SearchResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        hits:
          type: object
          properties:
            total:
              type: object
              properties:
                value:
                  type: integer
                relation:
                  type: string
            hits:
              type: array
              items:
                type: object
                properties:
                  _source:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/Complaint'
                  _id:
                    type: string
                  _score:
                    type: number
        aggregations:
          type: object
    Complaint:
      type: object
      properties:
        complaint_id:
          type: string
        date_received:
          type: string
          format: date
        date_sent_to_company:
          type: string
          format: date
        product:
          type: string
        sub_product:
          type: string
        issue:
          type: string
        sub_issue:
          type: string
        company:
          type: string
        company_response:
          type: string
        company_public_response:
          type: string
        consumer_consent_provided:
          type: string
        consumer_disputed:
          type: string
        complaint_what_happened:
          type: string
        state:
          type: string
        zip_code:
          type: string
        tags:
          type: string
        timely:
          type: string
        submitted_via:
          type: string