Library of Congress Bills API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Library of Congress Chronicling America Bills API
  description: The Chronicling America API exposes historic American newspapers digitized through the National Digital Newspaper Program, providing search and metadata access to newspaper pages, issues, and titles.
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: Library of Congress
    url: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
servers:
- url: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
  description: Production
tags:
- name: Bills
paths:
  /bill:
    get:
      operationId: listBills
      summary: List Bills
      description: Returns a list of bills sorted by date of latest action.
      tags:
      - Bills
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Format'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Offset'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Limit'
      - name: fromDateTime
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: toDateTime
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of bills
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/BillList'
  /bill/{congress}/{billType}:
    get:
      operationId: listBillsByType
      summary: List Bills by Congress and Type
      tags:
      - Bills
      parameters:
      - name: congress
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: billType
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - hr
          - s
          - hjres
          - sjres
          - hconres
          - sconres
          - hres
          - sres
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Format'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Offset'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Limit'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of bills
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/BillList'
  /bill/{congress}/{billType}/{billNumber}:
    get:
      operationId: getBill
      summary: Get Bill
      tags:
      - Bills
      parameters:
      - name: congress
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: billType
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: billNumber
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Format'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Bill detail
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Bill'
components:
  parameters:
    Format:
      name: format
      in: query
      schema:
        type: string
        enum:
        - json
        - xml
        default: json
    Limit:
      name: limit
      in: query
      schema:
        type: integer
        default: 20
        maximum: 250
    Offset:
      name: offset
      in: query
      schema:
        type: integer
        default: 0
  schemas:
    Bill:
      type: object
      properties:
        congress:
          type: integer
        number:
          type: string
        type:
          type: string
        title:
          type: string
        originChamber:
          type: string
        introducedDate:
          type: string
        latestAction:
          type: object
          properties:
            actionDate:
              type: string
            text:
              type: string
        url:
          type: string
          format: uri
    Pagination:
      type: object
      properties:
        count:
          type: integer
        next:
          type: string
        prev:
          type: string
    BillList:
      type: object
      properties:
        bills:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Bill'
        pagination:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Pagination'