{"name":"Acta Numeratorum API","tagline":"Now YOU have the receipts.","purpose":"Public, free, no key required. Every number on actanumeratorum.com comes from a call you can make yourself — this API exists so our work can be checked rather than believed.","start_here":"If you are reading this in a browser and it looks like a wall of text, you want https://actanumeratorum.com/api.html — the same information in plain language, with worked examples you can click.","docs":"https://api.actanumeratorum.com/docs","schema":"https://api.actanumeratorum.com/openapi.json","sources":"https://actanumeratorum.com/sources.html","methodology":"https://actanumeratorum.com/methodology.html","rate_limit":{"model":"A budget in cost units, not a request count — a 1.3 MB county table and a 15-byte health check are not the same ask. Every window must have room or the request is refused with 429 and a Retry-After.","budgets":[{"window":"minute","units":600,"seconds":60},{"window":"hour","units":9000,"seconds":3600},{"window":"day","units":60000,"seconds":86400}],"cost_default":1,"cost_by_endpoint":{"/v1/welfare/counties":20,"/v1/politicians/":3,"/v1/politicians":10,"/v1/districts/congress":3,"/v1/bills/search":5,"/v1/search":3,"/v1/ledger":2,"/v1/tax-history":2,"/v1/data-quality":5,"/v1/feedback":25,"/v1/lifestyle/survey":10,"/v1/stats/event":10,"/v1/stats":2,"/v1/contribute/identity":60,"/v1/contribute":25,"/v1/lifestyle/ask":50,"/v1/chat":50},"note":"A speed limit, not a restriction on the data. Need the whole dataset? Email admin@actanumeratorum.com — a bulk copy is faster for you and cheaper for us than crawling."},"terms":{"our_analysis":"Most of our derived work — SBOR scores, annotations, plain-language summaries — is free to reuse with attribution to Acta Numeratorum and a link to actanumeratorum.com. One exception: the Corporate Capture Index is computed in part from OpenSecrets CRP industry categories, which carry a CC BY-NC-SA licence (non-commercial, share-alike). If you reuse CCI figures, honour those terms as well. We are working through the licence of every dataset and will publish the result per source.","underlying_data":"Source data belongs to the bodies that published it and keeps its own licence. Most is US federal public-domain work, but not all. Per-dataset terms are listed at https://actanumeratorum.com/sources.html","state_legislation":"State bill text and metadata come from LegiScan (https://legiscan.com), licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). CHANGES WERE MADE: Acta derives plain-language summaries, section annotations and accountability scores from that material. Those derivations are ours and are not endorsed by LegiScan. Reuse of the underlying records is free under CC BY 4.0 provided you credit LegiScan, link the licence, and state that changes were made.","campaign_finance":"Federal campaign finance comes from the FEC and is US government work. Note a statutory restriction that is not a copyright term: FEC contributor data may not be used to solicit contributions or for commercial purposes (52 U.S.C. 30111(a)). That restriction applies to you as well as to us.","accuracy":"We publish mistakes and corrections openly — see https://actanumeratorum.com/news.html. Where a score would rest on unverified text we withhold it rather than guess: those responses return score_withheld instead of a number. Provided as-is, with no warranty.","contact":"admin@actanumeratorum.com"}}