Bills API API

Overview

API to get and search for information regarding Bills, their stages, associated amendments and publications.

Bills API is an open data API from parliament.uk. It needs no API key. It is served over HTTPS. Its OpenAPI description documents 19 endpoints.

At a glance

Authentication

No auth

HTTPS

Yes

CORS

Unknown

Category

Open Data

Base URL

https://bills-api.parliament.uk

Version

v1

Endpoints

19

OpenAPI

Specification ↗

Spec updated

2021-07-05

Make a first request

Replace the placeholders; the documentation says exactly where credentials go.

curl -X GET "https://bills-api.parliament.uk/api/v1/BillTypes" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"

const response = await fetch("https://bills-api.parliament.uk/api/v1/BillTypes", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "Accept": "application/json",
  },
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.request(
    "GET",
    "https://bills-api.parliament.uk/api/v1/BillTypes",
    headers={
    "Accept": "application/json",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())

Endpoints

Questions