Our APIs
Due to the closure of Sunlight Labs, we are no longer the providers of application programming interfaces (APIs) services. Most of our major projects – and relevant APIs – were taken over by other organizations. Thank you for your interest. The page below remains archived, as of November 2016.
API keys to date: 28,570
Average daily API calls: 543,535
Total API calls: 4,210,178,771
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#SoundOff
HeadCount built a free tweet-at-Congress advocacy tool called #SoundOff with Sunlight’s Congress API.
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Advanced Energy Legislation Tracker
Center for the New Energy Economy
The Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University utilized our Open States API to build a state energy policy legislation database.
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Congressional Bill Tracker
RealClearPolitics utilizes the Sunlight Congress API in their Congressional Bill Tracker that allows users to follow members of Congress and get email updates on their activity.
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Congressional Insights
iknow.io uses our Congress and Influence Explorer APIs to give people new ways to analyze and explore congressional data and discover insights.
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Congressional Kindness
Data Telling used the Capitol Words API to do an experiment looking at “the countability of kindness in the Congressional Record.”
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CongressLookup
Constructive Growth used the Sunlight Foundation’s API to create a free WordPress plugin for sites to embed a search tool to help users find their congressional legislators.
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Interactive Map: Is Your State Legislator a Member of ALEC?
Bill Moyers used the Open States API to map state legislators in our data that matched up with a list of alleged members of American Legislative Exchange Council provided by the Center for Media and Democracy.
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Minnesota Legislative Bill Tracker
The MinnPost used our Open States API to build an interactive feature to track the most important legislative bills in Minnesota. They made a similarly awesome feature to track what was passed in the 2012 legislative session.
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rSunlight
rOpenGov is a community-driven ecosystem of R packages from independent developers related to open government data and computational social sciences. One of the developers made a collection of functions to search and acquire data from a number of Sunlight APIs.
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Solar Estimate Tool
One Block Off the Grid uses our Congress API as a way to enable citizens to contact lawmakers on the issue of good solar incentives in their area, simply by adding their address.
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StateImpact Project
NPR’s StateImpact project is a collaboration of member stations in a number of states that use the Open States API to pull legislative and bill information.
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The Geography of Peace
Peace Action West used the Sunlight API to allow users look up their representatives in Congress by location and then see how the organization rates their voting record.
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Vote Hound
Vote Hound analyzes how lawmakers in the Connecticut legislature split on each vote to sniff out critical votes. It uses data from the Sunlight Foundation’s Open States project.
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