FERC Reference API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: FERC eForms (eCollection) Reference API
  version: '2026-07-27'
  description: 'Machine-readable description of the FERC eForms XBRL API hosted at https://ecollection.ferc.gov/api. FERC publishes NO OpenAPI for this API. This document is DERIVED, not harvested: every path below is a literal URL string taken from FERC''s own shipped production JavaScript bundle (https://ecollection.ferc.gov/main.6c69ecbce3fd46f494eb.js, `environment.apiURL = "https://eCollection.ferc.gov/api/"`), or from FERC''s published Postman collection and Submission API step-by-step guide, and each was probed live on 2026-07-27 with the HTTP status recorded in `x-evidence`. Response schemas are derived ONLY from responses actually observed on those probes — no field is invented. Endpoints that answered 401 are described by path and method only, with no invented request or response body.


    Two surfaces live here. (1) An ANONYMOUS PUBLIC READ surface — the public submission history of every FERC eForms filing, per-filing detail, the XBRL taxonomy version history and taxonomy packages, the form list, and the submission constraints — none of which is advertised on data.ferc.gov or in FERC''s developer documentation. (2) The CREDENTIALED WRITE surface — the OAuth2 password-grant token endpoint and the external filing endpoint documented in FERC''s vendor files library for regulated filers.


    PERSONAL DATA NOTICE: GET /PublicSubmissionHistory returns a `filerEmail` field carrying the work email address of the individual who submitted each filing, served anonymously with no authentication. The field is documented here structurally; no example in this repository carries a real value, and no agent skill or MCP tool in this repository is built on this endpoint.'
  contact:
    name: FERC Online Support
    url: https://www.ferc.gov/ferc-online/overview
  license:
    name: U.S. Government Work (public domain, 17 U.S.C. 105)
    url: https://data.ferc.gov/disclaimer/
  x-provenance:
    generated: '2026-07-27'
    method: derived
    sources:
    - https://ecollection.ferc.gov/main.6c69ecbce3fd46f494eb.js
    - collections/ferc-xbrl-submission-api.postman_collection.json
    - https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-12/FERC_SubmissionAPI_PROD-Step-by-step-guide_v3.1.pdf
    - live HTTP probes 2026-07-27
    note: Not published by FERC. Derived by API Evangelist from FERC's own production client bundle plus live anonymous probes. Report inaccuracies rather than treating this as an authoritative contract.
servers:
- url: https://ecollection.ferc.gov/api
  description: Production
tags:
- name: Reference
  description: Form lists and submission constraints.
paths:
  /SubmissionHistory/forms:
    get:
      tags:
      - Reference
      operationId: listForms
      summary: List the eForms form names and identifiers
      description: Returns the form names, their numeric identifiers, and which identifiers are annual forms.
      security: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Form reference lists.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/FormList'
      x-evidence:
        probed: '2026-07-27'
        status: 200
        authentication: none
  /getTestStatus:
    get:
      tags:
      - Reference
      operationId: getTestStatus
      summary: Get submission constraints and test-mode status
      description: Returns whether the environment is in test status plus the submission constraints the filing client enforces — maximum XBRL name length, maximum file name length, maximum file size in bytes, and the allowed additional-file tags.
      security: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Submission constraints.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/TestStatus'
      x-evidence:
        probed: '2026-07-27'
        status: 200
        authentication: none
  /faq:
    get:
      tags:
      - Reference
      operationId: listFaq
      summary: List eForms portal FAQ entries
      security: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: FAQ entries. Observed as an empty array on 2026-07-27.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: object
      x-evidence:
        probed: '2026-07-27'
        status: 200
        body: '[]'
        authentication: none
components:
  schemas:
    TestStatus:
      type: object
      properties:
        status:
          type: boolean
        maxAllowedXbrlName:
          type: integer
        maxAllowedFileName:
          type: integer
        maxAllowedFileSize:
          type: integer
          description: Bytes.
        allowedFileTags:
          type: string
        showReleaseNotesButton:
          type: boolean
    FormList:
      type: object
      properties:
        formList:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        formIDList:
          type: array
          items:
            type: integer
        annualForms:
          type: array
          items:
            type: integer
  securitySchemes:
    filerBearer:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: Bearer token issued by POST /token via the OAuth 2.0 password grant with role=filer.