Federal Communications Commission

Federal Communications Commission Pirate Radio API

Pirate Radio Broadcasting Database

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GET /resource/wgq8-eb5c.json Pirate Radio Broadcasting Database #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: FCC Open Data Pirate Radio API
  description: The FCC Open Data Portal exposes datasets via the Socrata Open Data API (SODA), including the Pirate Radio Broadcasting Database, Fixed Broadband Deployment data, and consumer complaint summaries.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: FCC Open Data
    url: https://opendata.fcc.gov/
servers:
- url: https://opendata.fcc.gov
  description: FCC Open Data portal
tags:
- name: Pirate Radio
  description: Pirate Radio Broadcasting Database
paths:
  /resource/wgq8-eb5c.json:
    get:
      operationId: listPirateRadio
      summary: Pirate Radio Broadcasting Database
      description: Returns entries from the Pirate Radio Broadcasting Database, identifying entities subject to enforcement actions for unlicensed radio broadcasting under section 511(g) of the PIRATE Act.
      tags:
      - Pirate Radio
      parameters:
      - name: $limit
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 1000
          maximum: 50000
      - name: $offset
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 0
      - name: $where
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        description: SoQL filter expression.
      - name: $select
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: $order
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: $q
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Full-text search.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Pirate radio records