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swagger: '2.0'
info:
title: eCFR API Documentation Admin Service API
description: Access eCFR metadata through JSON
host: www.ecfr.gov
tags:
- name: Admin Service
description: Access eCFR metadata through JSON
paths:
/api/admin/v1/agencies.json:
get:
summary: Agencies
description: All top-level agencies in name order with children also in name order
parameters: []
responses:
'200':
description: "```json\n {\n \"agencies\": [\n {\n \"name\": \"Administrative Conference of the United States\",\n \"short_name\": \"ACUS\",\n \"display_name\": \"Administrative Conference of the United States\",\n \"sortable_name\": \"Administrative Conference of the United States\",\n \"slug\": \"administrative-conference-of-the-united-states\",\n \"children\": [],\n \"cfr_references\": [\n {\n \"title\": 1,\n \"chapter\": \"III\"\n }\n ]\n },\n ...\n {\n \"name\": \"Department of Agriculture\",\n \"short_name\": \"USDA\",\n \"display_name\": \"Department of Agriculture\",\n \"sortable_name\": \"Agriculture, Department of\",\n \"slug\": \"agriculture-department\",\n \"children\": [\n {\n \"name\": \"Agricultural Marketing Service\",\n \"short_name\": \"AMS\",\n \"display_name\": \"Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture\",\n \"sortable_name\": \"Agricultural Marketing Service\",\n \"slug\": \"agricultural-marketing-service\",\n \"cfr_references\": [\n {\n \"title\": 7,\n \"chapter\": \"I\"\n },\n ...\n ],\n \"cfr_references\": [\n {\n \"title\": 2,\n \"chapter\": \"IV\",\n },\n ...\n ]\n },\n ...\n {\n \"name\": \"World Agricultural Outlook Board\",\n \"short_name\": \"WAOB\",\n \"display_name\": \"World Agricultural Outlook Board\",\n \"sortable_name\": \"World Agricultural Outlook Board\",\n \"slug\": \"world-agricultural-outlook-board\",\n \"cfr_references\": [\n {\n \"title\": 7,\n \"chapter\": \"XXXVIII\"\n }\n ]\n }\n ]\n }\n```\n"
tags:
- Admin Service
/api/admin/v1/corrections.json:
get:
summary: Corrections route returns all eCFR corrections.
description: 'The Corrections service can be used to determine all corrections or can be filtered by title, effective date, or correction date.
'
parameters:
- name: date
description: 'Restricts results to eCFR corrections that occurred on or before the specified date and that were corrected on or after the specified date. Format: YYYY-MM-DD'
in: query
type: string
format: date
required: false
- name: title
description: 'Restricts results to the given title number: Format: ''1'', ''2'', ''50'', etc'
in: query
type: string
required: false
- name: error_corrected_date
description: 'Returns only corrections that were corrected on the given date. Format: YYYY-MM-DD'
in: query
type: string
format: date
required: false
responses:
'200':
description: "```json\n \"ecfr_corrections\": [\n {\n \"id\": 1,\n \"cfr_references\": [\n {\n \"cfr_reference\": \"7 CFR 2.80\",\n \"hierarchy\": {\n \"title\": \"7\",\n \"subtitle\": \"A\",\n \"part\": \"2\",\n \"subpart\": \"N\",\n \"section\": \"2.80\"\n }\n }\n ],\n \"corrective_action\": \"Amended\",\n \"error_corrected\": \"2005-12-02\",\n \"error_occurred\": \"2005-09-23\",\n \"fr_citation\": \"70 FR 55706\",\n \"position\": 1,\n \"display_in_toc\": false,\n \"title\": 7,\n \"year\": 2005,\n \"last_modified\": \"2021-12-22\"\n },\n...\n {\n \"id\": 3858,\n \"cfr_references\": [\n {\n \"cfr_reference\": \"50 CFR 660.71\",\n \"hierarchy\": {\n \"title\": \"50\",\n \"part\": \"660\",\n \"section\": \"660.71\"\n }\n }\n ],\n \"corrective_action\": \" (e)(398) and (399) correctly designated as (e)(298) and (299)\\r\\n \\r\\n\",\n \"error_corrected\": \"2023-01-09\",\n \"error_occurred\": \"2023-01-01\",\n \"fr_citation\": \"87 FR 77015\",\n \"position\": 3,\n \"display_in_toc\": false,\n \"title\": 50,\n \"year\": 2023,\n \"last_modified\": \"2023-01-31\"\n }\n ]\n ```\n"
'400':
description: null // Bad request
'404':
description: Title not found
tags:
- Admin Service
/api/admin/v1/corrections/title/{title}.json:
get:
summary: Corrections title route returns all corrections for the supplied title.
description: The Corrections service can be used to determine all corrections for the given title.
parameters:
- name: title
description: 'Restricts results to the given title number: Format: ''1'', ''2'', ''50'', etc'
in: path
type: string
required: true
responses:
'200':
description: "```json\n {\n \"ecfr_corrections\": [\n {\n \"id\": 1473,\n \"cfr_references\": [\n {\n \"cfr_reference\": \"6 CFR Part 5\",\n \"hierarchy\": {\n \"title\": \"6\",\n \"chapter\": \"I\",\n \"part\": \"5\"\n }\n }\n ],\n \"corrective_action\": \"Paragraph 72 added\",\n \"error_corrected\": \"2014-11-12\",\n \"error_occurred\": \"2014-04-02\",\n \"fr_citation\": \"79 FR 18441\",\n \"position\": 1,\n \"display_in_toc\": false,\n \"title\": 6,\n \"year\": 2014,\n \"last_modified\": \"2021-12-22\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": 2252,\n \"cfr_references\": [\n {\n \"cfr_reference\": \"6 CFR 1001.6\",\n \"hierarchy\": {\n \"title\": \"6\",\n \"chapter\": \"X\",\n \"part\": \"1001\",\n \"section\": \"1001.6\"\n }\n }\n ],\n \"corrective_action\": \"(b)(4) amended\",\n \"error_corrected\": \"2018-01-16\",\n \"error_occurred\": \"2017-08-28\",\n \"fr_citation\": \"82 FR 34836\",\n \"position\": 1,\n \"display_in_toc\": false,\n \"title\": 6,\n \"year\": 2018,\n \"last_modified\": \"2021-12-22\"\n }\n ]\n }\n```\n"
'404':
descripton: Not Found
tags:
- Admin Service