EIA

EIA Bulk Download Facility

EIA's bulk data distribution surface, served from the same api.eia.gov host as APIv2 but requiring no API key whatsoever. A single manifest at /bulk/manifest.txt returns a JSON catalog of every bulk dataset with Project Open Data style metadata - identifier, title, description, keyword, publisher, person, mbox, accessLevel, accessURL, and last_updated - and each dataset is then downloadable as a zip archive of newline-delimited JSON, for example /bulk/ELEC.zip. Datasets include U.S. Electric System Operating Data (661,461 series), Electricity (285,080), Petroleum (53,464), Annual Energy Outlook releases back to 2014, International, SEDS, STEO, Coal, Natural Gas, CO2 Emissions, Crude Oil Imports, Nuclear Outages, and Total Energy. Updated twice daily at 5 a.m. and 3 p.m. Eastern. Verified live 2026-07-27 - GET /bulk/manifest.txt returned HTTP 200 anonymously and GET /bulk/ELEC.zip returned HTTP 200 with a 291,920,911-byte zip payload, both without a key.

GitHub

Documentation

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Documentation
https://www.eia.gov/opendata/bulkfiles.php

Other Resources

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DataCatalog
https://www.eia.gov/opendata/bulk/manifest.txt
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Portal
https://www.eia.gov/opendata/
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DataCatalog
https://www.eia.gov/opendata/bulk/manifest.txt
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AgentSkill
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/eia/refs/heads/main/skills/eia-bulk-download.md

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: eia:eia-bulk-download-facility
name: EIA Bulk Download Facility
description: EIA's bulk data distribution surface, served from the same api.eia.gov host as APIv2 but
  requiring no API key whatsoever. A single manifest at /bulk/manifest.txt returns a JSON catalog of every
  bulk dataset with Project Open Data style metadata - identifier, title, description, keyword, publisher,
  person, mbox, accessLevel, accessURL, and last_updated - and each dataset is then downloadable as a
  zip archive of newline-delimited JSON, for example /bulk/ELEC.zip. Datasets include U.S. Electric System
  Operating Data (661,461 series), Electricity (285,080), Petroleum (53,464), Annual Energy Outlook releases
  back to 2014, International, SEDS, STEO, Coal, Natural Gas, CO2 Emissions, Crude Oil Imports, Nuclear
  Outages, and Total Energy. Updated twice daily at 5 a.m. and 3 p.m. Eastern. Verified live 2026-07-27
  - GET /bulk/manifest.txt returned HTTP 200 anonymously and GET /bulk/ELEC.zip returned HTTP 200 with
  a 291,920,911-byte zip payload, both without a key.
humanURL: https://www.eia.gov/opendata/bulkfiles.php
baseURL: https://www.eia.gov/opendata/bulk
tags:
- Open Data
- Bulk Data
- Energy Statistics
- Electricity
- Time Series
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.eia.gov/opendata/bulkfiles.php
- type: DataCatalog
  url: https://www.eia.gov/opendata/bulk/manifest.txt
  name: Bulk manifest (api.eia.gov/bulk/manifest.txt now 301-redirects here)
- type: Portal
  url: https://www.eia.gov/opendata/
- type: DataCatalog
  url: https://www.eia.gov/opendata/bulk/manifest.txt
  name: Bulk manifest - 29 datasets, Project Open Data style metadata, no API key required
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/eia-bulk-download.md
  name: Bulk-download EIA datasets without an API key