Build against normalized federal bills, laws, votes, legislators, committees, and topics — with stable resource URLs, clear pagination, and linked records.
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Free Windows App
The LegiList API Portal is a free Windows desktop app that lets you search bills, legislators, votes, laws, committees, and topics through a clean interface — no programming needed. Works with the free API tier.
Start on Free for evaluation and early integration work. Upgrade to Pro when you need higher daily volume, faster per-key throughput, or multiple active keys for development and production environments.
Best for production apps, higher-volume polling, and separate development, staging, and production keys.
Best for evaluation, personal projects, and early integration work.
Developer Guide
Authentication, pagination, includes, response conventions, errors, and rate limits.
Endpoint Inventory
Full path-level reference for bills, laws, votes, legislators, committees, and topics.
Copyable Workflows
Short examples for common tasks like bill detail, legislator lookup, votes, and committees.
The fastest way to get started is to create an account, confirm the email address, and begin with one small list request before expanding into detail routes.
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \ "https://legilist.com/api/v1/bills?congress=119&per_page=5"
Accounts are self-serve. Start on the Free plan, confirm the email address, and upgrade in the dashboard whenever you need higher request limits.
Every new account begins on the Free plan.
Your first API key is ready immediately after verification.
Move to Pro with Stripe when you need higher limits or multiple active keys.
Version 1 focuses on a compact set of federal resources that work well together. These are the current endpoint families.
Browse federal bills and laws. When you need more than the main bill record, you can add related data to the same response.
Browse House and Senate votes, and add the member-by-member roll call when you need it.
Look up current members and add biography, term history, or committee assignments when needed, including member biographies that are otherwise awkward to assemble cleanly from official sources.
Browse current federal committees and, if needed, include the members tied to each one. Committee activity subresources for meetings and nominations are current-Congress only.
Browse topic pages and the federal bills grouped under each subject area.
LegiList already organizes federal legislative data for the public site. The API exposes that same work in a form built for production use: normalized records, explicit pagination, cleaner linked objects, and fewer follow-up calls across common federal workflows.
If you ship something public with it, we just ask for a visible credit — "Powered by LegiList" with a link back to legilist.com.