Department of State

aid: department-of-state
name: Department of State
description: 'The U.S. Department of State leads U.S. foreign policy, conducts diplomacy with foreign governments, issues
  U.S. passports and visas, supports U.S. citizens abroad, and publishes country-specific information and travel advisories.
  It operates no unified developer portal and issues no API keys, but it does serve several real, anonymous, machine-readable
  surfaces: the state.gov Content API at https://www.state.gov/wp-json, where 473 WordPress REST routes expose press releases,
  briefings, reports, biographies, bureaus and country and policy content as structured JSON with no credential; the Office
  of the Historian Ebook Catalog API, an OPDS Catalog 1.1 feed of the Foreign Relations of the United States series and the
  only surface the Department documents on a developer page of its own; a DCAT-US 3.0 open data catalog of 397 datasets at
  https://www.state.gov/data.json; and the Travel Advisories RSS feed. Discovery is the weak point rather than supply — none
  of the nine State hosts probed serves any /.well-known/ document, three of the four State APIs listed in the federal inventory
  have been retired without notice, and travel.state.gov and the Bureau of Consular Affairs data catalog refuse non-browser
  clients outright.'
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deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - historyatstate/hsg-shell
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: low
  source:
  - pricing
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/department-of-state.png
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-09-16'
type: Index
position: Producing
access: 3rd-Party
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Federal Government
- Foreign Affairs
- Travel
- Consular
- Visa
- Passports
tags_raw:
- Federal Government
- Foreign Affairs
- Travel
- Consular
- Visas
- Passports
- Federal-Government
common:
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/USStateDept
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.state.gov/blogs
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/StateDept
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/department-of-state-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/department-of-state-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.state.gov/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/department-of-state-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/usstatedept
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/statedept
- url: https://www.state.gov/
  type: Portal
- url: https://travel.state.gov/
  type: Portal
- url: https://fam.state.gov/
  type: Reference
- type: OpenAPI
  name: state.gov Content API (derived)
  url: openapi/_original/department-of-state-state-gov-content-openapi.yml
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/_index.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/department-of-state-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/department-of-state-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/department-of-state-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/department-of-state-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/department-of-state-conformance.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/department-of-state-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/department-of-state-mcp.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/department-of-state-llms.txt
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/department-of-state-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/department-of-state-plans-pricing.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/department-of-state-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-diplomatic-technology/vulnerability-disclosure-policy
- type: Documentation
  url: https://history.state.gov/developer/catalog
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://history.state.gov/developer
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.state.gov/wp-json/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.state.gov/contact-us/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.state.gov/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.state.gov/copyright-information
- type: OpenData
  url: https://www.state.gov/data.json
apis:
- aid: department-of-state:historian-ebook-catalog-api
  name: Office of the Historian Ebook Catalog API
  description: A RESTful, OPDS Catalog 1.1 feed of the Foreign Relations of the United States series — the official documentary
    record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions — published by the Office of the Historian. Four documented operations (catalog
    root, all volumes in series order, ten most recent, subject browse, and Lucene free-text search) return Atom XML carrying
    acquisition links to EPUB, MOBI and PDF editions plus cover images. No registration, no API key, no authentication. This
    is the only surface the Department documents on a developer page of its own, and the source data behind it is open on
    GitHub as TEI XML.
  humanURL: https://history.state.gov/developer/catalog
  baseURL: https://history.state.gov/api/v1
  tags:
  - History
  - Publications
  - OPDS
  - Open Data
  - Foreign Affairs
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://history.state.gov/developer/catalog
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://history.state.gov/developer
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/HistoryAtState
  - type: Support
    url: https://github.com/HistoryAtState/Feedback
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/HistoryAtState/hsg-shell
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/department-of-state-frus-ebook-catalog.md
- aid: department-of-state:open-data-catalog
  name: Department of State Open Data Catalog
  description: The Department's Project Open Data catalog, served as a single machine-readable DCAT-US 3.0 document at https://www.state.gov/data.json.
    397 dataset entries covering Foreign Relations metadata, Humanitarian Information Unit cartography, passport and visa
    statistics, and international law digests, each with distribution URLs. It is the Department's own index of what it publishes,
    and it is the document that points at the Bureau of Consular Affairs data catalog at cadatacatalog.state.gov.
  humanURL: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?organization=state-gov
  baseURL: https://www.state.gov/data.json
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - DCAT
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: OpenData
    url: https://www.state.gov/data.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?organization=state-gov
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/department-of-state-conformance.yml
- aid: department-of-state:travel-advisories
  name: State Department Travel Advisories
  description: Country-by-country travel advisories (Levels 1-4) issued by the Bureau of Consular Affairs, with RSS distribution.
  humanURL: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories.html
  baseURL: https://travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TAsTWs.xml
  tags:
  - Travel
  - Advisories
  - RSS
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories.html
  - type: RSS
    url: https://travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TAsTWs.xml
- aid: department-of-state:country-information
  name: Country Information Pages
  description: Per-country pages covering entry/exit requirements, local laws, safety, health, and U.S. embassy contacts.
  humanURL: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-travel/International-Travel-Country-Information-Pages.html
  tags:
  - Country
  - Travel
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-travel/International-Travel-Country-Information-Pages.html
- aid: department-of-state:smart-traveler-enrollment-program
  name: Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP)
  description: Voluntary enrollment system for U.S. citizens traveling or residing abroad to receive embassy alerts.
  humanURL: https://step.state.gov/
  tags:
  - Travel
  - Citizen Services
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://step.state.gov/
- aid: department-of-state:visa-information
  name: U.S. Visa Information
  description: Reference information on nonimmigrant and immigrant visa categories, processing times, and reciprocity schedules.
  humanURL: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas.html
  tags:
  - Visa
  tags_raw:
  - Visas
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas.html
  - type: Reference
    url: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/fees/reciprocity-by-country.html
- aid: department-of-state:passport-services
  name: U.S. Passport Services
  description: Public-facing passport application, renewal, and status-check resources from the Bureau of Consular Affairs.
  humanURL: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports.html
  tags:
  - Passports
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports.html
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/status.html
- aid: department-of-state:foreign-affairs-manual
  name: Foreign Affairs Manual (FAM) and Handbook (FAH)
  description: Department-wide policy and procedural manuals issued by the Office of Directives Management.
  humanURL: https://fam.state.gov/
  tags:
  - Policy
  - Reference
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fam.state.gov/
- aid: department-of-state:consular-lookout-class
  x-published: false
  name: ConsularLookout (CLASS)
  description: Government-internal name-check system used during visa and passport adjudication. Referenced here for completeness;
    no public API.
  humanURL: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0.html
  tags:
  - Consular
  - Internal
  properties:
  - type: Reference
    url: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0.html
- aid: department-of-state:ecase
  name: eCASE Enterprise Case Management
  description: State Department-wide enterprise case-management platform. Internal system; referenced here for organizational
    completeness.
  humanURL: https://www.state.gov/
  tags:
  - Case Management
  - Internal
  properties:
  - type: Reference
    url: https://www.state.gov/
- aid: department-of-state:state-data-gov
  name: State Department Open Data on data.gov
  description: Public datasets published by the State Department through the federal open-data catalog.
  humanURL: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?organization=state-gov
  tags:
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?organization=state-gov
- aid: department-of-state:state-gov-website-wordpress-rest
  name: Department of State Website (WordPress REST)
  description: 'The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Department of State website at www.state.gov: the route index
    of the site''s content management system, catalogued as one site surface rather than as separate APIs.'
  baseURL: https://www.state.gov/wp-json
  tags:
  - WordPress
  x-surface: platform-generated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.state.gov/wp-json
  x-platform: wordpress
  x-platform-surface: rest
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-07'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 18
  pass: local-v3