Data

Government & Policy

Primary legal, spending, and screening sources for watching rules, filings, and public decisions as they change.

Use these guides to prototype a docket watcher, a sanctions screen, or a legislative brief without scraping.

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Congress.gov Legislation API
beginnerSmall
Official bills, amendments, actions, committees, members, summaries, and legislative relationships for building policy tracking tools.

First project: Monitor recently updated legislation

GovernmentJSONKey
FBI Crime Data Explorer
intermediateMedium
Uniform Crime Reporting summaries and NIBRS extracts for building U.S. crime trend and agency-comparison tools.

First project: Compare one state's reported violent crime across three years

GovernmentJSON +1Key
FEC Campaign Finance Data
intermediateMedium
Federal candidate and committee receipts, disbursements, and filings for building campaign-finance monitors that stay inside FEC use limits.

First project: Rank House candidates by reported receipts

GovernmentJSON +1Key
Federal Register Documents API
beginnerSmall
Daily rules, proposed rules, notices, and presidential documents for building focused regulatory-change and agency-publication monitors.

First project: Monitor one agency's new publications

GovernmentJSONNo key
GovInfo U.S. Courts Opinions
intermediateMedium
Published federal court opinions from GPO GovInfo for building bounded case lookup and docket-research tools.

First project: List recent Ninth Circuit opinions

GovernmentJSON +2Key
Grants.gov Opportunities
beginnerSmall
Federal grant opportunity postings for building funding inboxes and agency opportunity monitors.

First project: List posted climate grant opportunities

GovernmentJSONNo key
legislation.gov.uk
beginnerMedium
Consolidated UK legislation in machine-readable form for building statute lookup, citation, and change-monitoring tools.

First project: Extract section titles from one UK Act

GovernmentXML +2No key
MEDSL County Presidential Returns
beginnerTiny
County-level U.S. presidential election returns for building result maps and turnout comparison tools from MIT Election Data and Science Lab files.

First project: Map one year's county presidential margins

GovernmentCSV +1No key
NIH RePORTER Projects
intermediateMedium
Funded NIH and HHS project records for building research-funding monitors, institution dashboards, and topic-prospecting tools.

First project: List recent NIH CRISPR project awards

GovernmentJSONNo key
NSF Awards API
beginnerSmall
National Science Foundation award records for building research-funding monitors and institution comparison tools.

First project: List recent NSF quantum awards

GovernmentJSON +1No key
OFAC Specially Designated Nationals List
beginnerTiny
Treasury blocked-party names for building bounded sanctions-screening alerts that stay inside OFAC matching limits.

First project: Build an exact-name SDN lookup

GovernmentCSV +1No key
Open States Legislation
beginnerSmall
State bill, legislator, and jurisdiction records for building state-level policy trackers that stay inside Open States use limits.

First project: Watch recently updated bills in one state

GovernmentJSONKey
Regulations.gov Dockets
intermediateSmall
Federal rulemaking dockets, documents, and public comments for building comment-period monitors and agency docket trackers.

First project: Track recent EPA proposed rules

GovernmentJSONKey
SAM.gov Contract Opportunities
intermediateSmall
Current U.S. federal procurement notices for building opportunity monitors, deadline alerts, and focused market-discovery tools.

First project: Monitor software contract opportunities

GovernmentJSONKey
Senate LDA Lobbying Disclosures
intermediateMedium
Federal lobbying registrations and activity reports for building client and issue disclosure monitors from Senate LDA filings.

First project: Scan recent LDA filings

GovernmentJSON +1No key
UK Police Street-Level Crime
beginnerMedium
Monthly street-level crime and outcome records for building neighbourhood safety monitors in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

First project: Summarise recent street crime around one point

GovernmentJSON +1No key
UN Security Council Consolidated List
beginnerTiny
UN Security Council sanctions designations for building bounded screening alerts that stay inside list-matching limits.

First project: Build an exact-name UN list lookup

GovernmentXML +1No key
USAspending Federal Awards
intermediateSmall
Federal contract, grant, loan, and other award records for building recipient research, agency-spending, and public-market analysis tools.

First project: Rank recipients for one federal agency

GovernmentJSON +2No key