# LegiScan Bulk Dataset API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/legiscan/legiscan-bulk-dataset-api/  
**Provider:** LegiScan — https://apis.io/providers/legiscan/  
**Base URL:** https://api.legiscan.com/  
**Documentation:** https://legiscan.com/datasets

LegiScan Bulk Dataset API is one of 3 APIs that [LegiScan](https://apis.io/providers/legiscan/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Bulk Data, Datasets, Bills, Sessions, and Archives. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The LegiScan Bulk Dataset API provides access to weekly snapshot ZIP archives containing all getBill, getRollCall, and getPerson payload records as individual JSON files for each legislative session. Clients retrieve dataset listings via getDatasetList and download archives via getDataset using a session_id and access_key. Datasets are available for all 50 states and Congress going back multiple sessions.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://legiscan.com/datasets
- **DataExports** — https://legiscan.com/data-exports

## Other LegiScan APIs (2)

- [LegiScan Pull API](https://apis.io/apis/legiscan/legiscan-pull-api/)
- [LegiScan Push API](https://apis.io/apis/legiscan/legiscan-push-api/)

## Tags

Bulk Data, Datasets, Bills, Sessions, Archives

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