CRS Reports

planned Legislative · Tier 1 · API · Congressional Research Service

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What this source is

The Congressional Research Service provides nonpartisan policy and legal analysis to members and committees of Congress. New and updated CRS reports, released under 2018 appropriations law, typically several items per business day.

Identity and registry record

Registry id

crs-reports

Agency / parent organization

Congressional Research Service

Branch

legislative

Type

API

Status

planned

Tier

1

URL (home)

https://crsreports.congress.gov/ (opens in a new tab)

URL (index)

https://api.congress.gov/v3/crsreport (opens in a new tab)

Registered

2026-07-26

Registry notes

crsreports.congress.gov itself: HTTP 403 to honestly-identified automated client (WAF, probed 2026-07-26) and publishes no machine-access documentation — that path stays closed. Research 2026-07-28: the officially documented channel is the Congress.gov API crsreport endpoint (LoC GitHub docs, CRSReportEndpoint.md read): product IDs, pub/update dates, titles, authors, topics, summaries, and format-URL containers. Metadata + summaries alone are digest-worthy; whether the congress.gov-hosted full-text URLs fetch cleanly for our client needs probe.

How we ingest it

Channel

API

Method

Would delta-sync the api.congress.gov crsreport endpoint (same api.data.gov key the pipeline already holds).

Request budget

the agency class: at most 1,500 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too)

Politeness

robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded

Capture and hash

captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)

Ingestion health

Not ingested: the registry status of this source is planned.

Ingestion statistics

These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.

Not ingested: the registry status of this source is planned. Ingestion statistics are measured for active sources only.

All time

Last 30 days, day by day