Congress.gov’s API has gone dark, impacting data access

Since Friday, developers who rely on Congress.gov’s official application programming interface (API) have been left staring at a dead end.

Requests to api.congress.gov/v3 now spin into an infinite redirect loop, and the system for generating new keys — the required entry point for new users — is also broken. The issue was discussed by a number of users on GitHub starting Friday.

This means no one can sign up to start using the tool, and those already on board can’t get the data they need. Automated access to congressional information has effectively been cut off, with no public word from the Library of Congress about whether this is a temporary technical issue, intentional downtime or something more troubling.

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