# EIA Bulk Download Facility

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/eia/eia-bulk-download-facility/  
**Provider:** EIA — https://apis.io/providers/eia/  
**Base URL:** https://www.eia.gov/opendata/bulk  
**Documentation:** https://www.eia.gov/opendata/bulkfiles.php

EIA Bulk Download Facility is one of 2 APIs that [EIA](https://apis.io/providers/eia/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Open Data, Bulk Data, Energy Statistics, Electricity, and Time Series. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

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

## Other EIA APIs (1)

- [EIA Open Data API (APIv2)](https://apis.io/apis/eia/eia-open-data-api-v2/)

## Tags

Open Data, Bulk Data, Energy Statistics, Electricity, Time Series

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