Library of Congress bound-congressional-record API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  description: 'Congress.gov shares its application programming interface (API) with the public to ingest the Congressional data. <a href="sign-up/" target="_blank">Sign up for an API key</a> from api.data.gov that you can use to access web services provided by Congress.gov. To learn more, view our <a href="https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/api.congress.gov/" target="_blank">GitHub repository</a>.

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  title: Congress.gov amendments bound-congressional-record API
  version: '3'
servers:
- url: /v3
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
- name: bound-congressional-record
  description: Returns bound Congressional Record data from the API
paths:
  /bound-congressional-record:
    get:
      tags:
      - bound-congressional-record
      summary: Returns a list of bound congressional records issues sorted by most recent.
      description: Returns a list of bound congressional record issues sorted by most recent.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/format'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/offset'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/limit'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful operation
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/BoundCongressionalRecord'
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/BoundCongressionalRecord'
        '400':
          description: Invalid status value
  /bound-congressional-record/{year}:
    get:
      tags:
      - bound-congressional-record
      summary: Returns a list of bound congressional records issues sorted by most recent.
      description: Returns a list of bound congressional record issues sorted by most recent.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/format'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/offset'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/limit'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/year'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful operation
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/BoundCongressionalRecord'
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/BoundCongressionalRecord'
        '400':
          description: Invalid status value
  /bound-congressional-record/{year}/{month}:
    get:
      tags:
      - bound-congressional-record
      summary: Returns a list of bound congressional records issues sorted by most recent.
      description: Returns a list of bound congressional record issues sorted by most recent.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/format'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/offset'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/limit'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/year'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/month'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful operation
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/BoundCongressionalRecord'
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/BoundCongressionalRecord'
        '400':
          description: Invalid status value
  /bound-congressional-record/{year}/{month}/{day}:
    get:
      tags:
      - bound-congressional-record
      summary: Returns a list of bound congressional records issues sorted by most recent.
      description: Returns a list of bound congressional record issues sorted by most recent.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/format'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/offset'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/limit'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/year'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/month'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/day'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful operation
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/BoundCongressionalRecord'
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/BoundCongressionalRecord'
        '400':
          description: Invalid status value
components:
  schemas:
    BoundCongressionalRecord:
      type: object
      properties:
        boundCongressionalRecord:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/boundCongressionalRecord'
    boundCongressionalRecord:
      type: object
      properties:
        congress:
          type: integer
          example: 101
        date:
          type: string
          example: '1990-05-01'
        sessionNumber:
          type: integer
          example: 2
        updateDate:
          type: string
          format: date
          example: '2020-10-20'
        url:
          type: string
          format: url
          example: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bound-congressional-record/1990/5/1?format=json
        volumeNumber:
          type: integer
          example: 136
  parameters:
    offset:
      name: offset
      in: query
      description: The starting record returned. 0 is the first record.
      required: false
      schema:
        type: integer
    day:
      name: day
      in: path
      description: The specified day of the bound Congressional record, for example 18.
      required: false
      schema:
        type: integer
    format:
      name: format
      in: query
      description: The data format. Value can be xml or json.
      required: false
      schema:
        type: string
        default: xml
        enum:
        - xml
        - json
    year:
      name: year
      in: path
      description: The specified year of the bound Congressional record, for example 1990.
      required: false
      schema:
        type: integer
    month:
      name: month
      in: path
      description: The specified month of the bound Congressional record, for example 4 for April.
      required: false
      schema:
        type: integer
    limit:
      name: limit
      in: query
      description: The number of records returned. The maximum limit is 250.
      required: false
      schema:
        type: integer
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: api_key