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New: DOJ Justice Manual, USCIS Policy Manual, USPTO MPEP/TMEP, and DFARS PGI are now in the API. See what's covered.

API Reference

Open one for parameters and an example. Try them in the Playground.

Section lookup

MethodPathSummary
GET/api/v1/us/statutes/resolveResolve a citation straight to its section.
GET/api/v1/us/statutes/section/{act_id}Section metadata: citation, title, hierarchy.
GET/api/v1/us/statutes/section/{act_id}/bodyFull section text as HTML and plain text.
GET/api/v1/us/statutes/section/{act_id}/relatedThe sections immediately before and after.
GET/api/v1/us/statutes/sectionsBatch metadata for up to 50 sections.

Discover the corpus

MethodPathSummary
GET/api/v1/us/statutes/lawsCatalog the bodies of law available, by jurisdiction.
GET/api/v1/us/statutes/divisionsWalk the statutory hierarchy one level at a time.
GET/api/v1/us/statutes/coverageSelf-describing coverage matrix.

Search

MethodPathSummary
POST/us/statutes/searchRelevance-ranked search; filter by corpus, state, title.

Alerts

MethodPathSummary
POST/api/v1/watchesCreate a watch on a source; webhook and/or email.
GET/api/v1/watchesList your watches.

Pricing

MethodPathSummary
GET/api/v1/pricingCurrent credit pricing (no auth).