Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)

aid: cfpb
name: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
description: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) provides public REST APIs for searching consumer financial complaint
  data, accessing Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) mortgage lending records, and retrieving regulatory filing data. These
  APIs support financial researchers, journalists, developers, and the general public in understanding consumer financial
  markets and lending practices across the United States.
type: Index
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cfpb/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Consumer Finance
- Government
- Complaints
- Mortgage
- HMDA
- Financial Data
- Regulatory
- Open Data
apis:
- aid: cfpb:consumer-complaint-database-api
  name: Consumer Complaint Database API
  description: Provides programmatic access to the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database, enabling search and retrieval of consumer
    financial complaints submitted to companies. Supports filtering by product, issue, company, state, date range, and other
    fields, with results returned as JSON. Contains over 15 million complaint records.
  humanURL: https://cfpb.github.io/api/ccdb/
  baseURL: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/search/api/v1/
  tags:
  - Consumer Complaints
  - Financial Services
  - Search
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cfpb.github.io/api/ccdb/api.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://cfpb.github.io/ccdb5-api/documentation/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/cfpb/ccdb5-api
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cfpb/main/openapi/cfpb-consumer-complaint-database-api-openapi.yml
- aid: cfpb:hmda-data-browser-api
  name: HMDA Data Browser API
  description: Provides access to Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data, enabling aggregation reports and CSV downloads
    of mortgage lending records filtered by geography (state, county, MSA/MD), financial institution LEI, and year. Supports
    nationwide and regional queries for analyzing mortgage lending patterns and fair lending compliance.
  humanURL: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/documentation/api/data-browser/
  baseURL: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/data-browser-api/
  tags:
  - Mortgage
  - HMDA
  - Lending
  - Financial Data
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/documentation/api/data-browser/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/cfpb/hmda-platform
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cfpb/main/openapi/cfpb-hmda-data-browser-api-openapi.yml
- aid: cfpb:hmda-filing-api
  name: HMDA Platform Filing API
  description: Enables financial institutions to submit Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data programmatically to the FFIEC
    HMDA Platform. Provides endpoints for filing submissions, uploading loan application register (LAR) files, checking submission
    status, and retrieving edit reports for regulatory compliance.
  humanURL: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/documentation/category/developer-apis
  baseURL: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/
  tags:
  - HMDA
  - Filing
  - Regulatory
  - Mortgage
  - Submission
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/documentation/category/developer-apis
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/cfpb/hmda-platform
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cfpb/main/openapi/cfpb-hmda-filing-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://cfpb.github.io/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/cfpb
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/consumer-financial-protection-bureau/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/CFPB
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cfpb-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cfpb-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/cfpb-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com