Department of Justice

FARA e-File Registrant API

The Foreign Agents Registration Act e-File system exposes registrant data filed under FARA as JSON. The DOJ Developer Resources page describes the FARA.gov API as providing public access to registrations, short-form filings for individual foreign agents, and foreign principals. Only the registrant feeds were reachable when probed on 2026-09-06: /api/v1/Registrants/json/Active and /api/v1/Registrants/json/Terminated both returned 200 without a key, while the ORDS API landing page linked from the DOJ developer page returned 500. There is no published reference documentation for these endpoints.

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Documentation
https://www.justice.gov/developer

Other Resources

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X-FARAProgram
https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara
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X-BrowseFilings
https://efile.fara.gov/ords/fara/f?p=1381:1

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: department-of-justice:fara-efile-api
name: FARA e-File Registrant API
description: 'The Foreign Agents Registration Act e-File system exposes registrant data filed under FARA
  as JSON. The DOJ Developer Resources page describes the FARA.gov API as providing public access to registrations,
  short-form filings for individual foreign agents, and foreign principals. Only the registrant feeds
  were reachable when probed on 2026-09-06: /api/v1/Registrants/json/Active and /api/v1/Registrants/json/Terminated
  both returned 200 without a key, while the ORDS API landing page linked from the DOJ developer page
  returned 500. There is no published reference documentation for these endpoints.'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
humanURL: https://www.justice.gov/developer
baseURL: https://efile.fara.gov/api/v1
tags:
- FARA
- Foreign Agents
- National Security Division
- Registrants
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.justice.gov/developer
- type: X-FARAProgram
  url: https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara
- type: X-BrowseFilings
  url: https://efile.fara.gov/ords/fara/f?p=1381:1
contact:
- FN: DOJ National Security Division, FARA Unit
  url: https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara