GovTrack · Rate Limits

Govtrack Rate Limits

Name: Govtrack Rate Limits
Creator: GovTrack
Keywords: Government, Legislative, Congress, Bills, Voting Records, Political Data, Open Government, United States

GovTrack does not publish formal rate limits for its public API. The API is free and open with no authentication required. Reasonable use is expected; aggressive scraping or bulk downloading should use the congress project scrapers or the unitedstates/congress GitHub repository instead.

Govtrack Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for GovTrack on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 1 rate-limit definition, across the Public (Unauthenticated) tier.

Tagged areas include Government, Legislative, Congress, Bills, and Voting Records.

1 Limits

GovernmentLegislativeCongressBillsVoting RecordsPolitical DataOpen GovernmentUnited States

Limits

No API key or authentication is required. GovTrack uses django-simplegetapi to expose read-only API endpoints. Filtering is restricted to indexed fields to prevent runaway queries. For bulk data needs, the recommended approach is to use the unitedstates/congress open-source scrapers.