# FCC (Federal Communications Commission)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/fcc/  
**Website:** https://www.fcc.gov  
**APIs profiled:** 19

The Federal Communications Commission provides free public REST APIs for radio station license lookup, broadband coverage maps, spectrum auction data, broadcast contours, census block conversions, consumer complaint databases, electronic comment filings, and regulatory data. All APIs are free with no authentication required for most endpoints.

## Kin Score — 32.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 32.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 49.7 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 13.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 21.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Free · Open access — onboarding: open, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (19)

- **FCC License View API** — Provides information about FCC-issued licenses for use of the nation's airwaves, including snapshots of license counts across different radio services such as 700 MHz, 800 MHz C...
- **FCC Spectrum Dashboard API** — Returns a high-level overview of spectrum ownership across the United States within the 225 MHz to 3700 MHz frequency range, including call sign, licensee name, common name, rad...
- **FCC Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) API** — Enables external users and organizations to search the FCC Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) for regulatory filings and public comments without using the web interface. Fr...
- **FCC Consumer Complaints Center Data API** — Provides access to consumer complaint data submitted to the FCC, including complaints about telephone, internet, television, and radio services.
- **FCC Public Inspection Files API** — Provides programmatic access to public inspection files for broadcast, cable, satellite, and wireless telecommunications entities regulated by the FCC.
- **FCC Broadband Data Collection (BDC) API** — Allows ISPs and developers to interface with the FCC Broadband Data Collection system via API endpoints, including the ability to respond to fixed availability challenges progra...
- **FCC Content API** — Makes FCC website content accessible to applications, leveraging Drupal as a content management system to deliver news, documents, and regulatory content programmatically.
- **FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Am Pattern API** — Get AM antenna pattern data
- **FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Antenna API** — Get antenna pattern data for TV and FM stations
- **FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Area API** — Get market area data by latitude and longitude
- **FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Block API** — Get census block, county, and state FIPS codes by latitude and longitude
- **FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Coordinate Conversion API** — Convert between decimal degrees and degrees-minutes-seconds
- **FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Coverage API** — Get service contour for TV and FM stations
- **FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Distance API** — Calculate distance using F-curve propagation curves
- **FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Elevation API** — Get terrain elevation data at a given location
- **FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Entity API** — Get coverage contour by entity (call sign, facility ID, or application ID)
- **FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Haat API** — Get Height Above Average Terrain (HAAT) data
- **FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Profile API** — Get terrain elevation profile between two points
- **FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Projection API** — Project coordinates between coordinate reference systems

## Security (1)

- **Fcc Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Fcc Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Federal-Government, Telecommunications, Radio, Broadband, Spectrum, Licensing, Regulatory

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/fcc/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.