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DOJ News API

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DOJ News API

The DOJ News API serves Department of Justice press releases, speeches and blog entries as JSON or XML, filterable by date, component and topic, with no key required. The site's legal policies say: "Unless otherwise indicated, information on Department of Justice websites is in the public domain and may be copied and distributed without permission. Citation of the Department of Justice as source of the information is appreciated, as appropriate."

Required Attribution:

Not required; citation of the Department of Justice is appreciated, as appropriate. Seal/logo use requires advance authorization.

Coverage

DOJ Office of Public Affairs press releases, speeches and blog entries, filterable by date, component and topic; earliest sampled item dated 2009-01-05. Update cadence: Not stated.

Verdict

A keyless JSON/XML API for DOJ press releases, speeches and blog entries, filterable by date, component and topic. WARNING: "The use of any Department of Justice seals, however, is protected and requires advance authorization, as described below." Rate limited: "There is a maximum limit of 50 results per request." and "Individual users issuing more than 4 requests per second will experience degraded performance and may be blocked entirely." The docs list the base URL in plain http, not https; the https version works and Signal Lab links only to it.

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