Endpoints

A collection's root (/api/bills, /api/opinions, /api/code): its routes, and its coverage sentence with the qualifications.

Coverage, counts, sessions, and corpus version.

Bills with the newest activity first.

• limit: 1 to 100, default 20
• offset: 0 to 10000

The same slim list, narrowed.

• session: a session slug such as 2025-2026
• chamber: H or S
• bill_type: B, R, CR, or JR
• status: a LegiScan status code
• q: at least two characters
• limit, offset: as above

Full-text search over bill text, titles, and the labeled summaries. A bare bill number is a direct lookup.

• q: required, 1 to 300 characters
• in: headings to search only titles, tags, and subjects
• session, chamber, bill_type, status: as above
• limit: 1 to 100, default 20

Every session with its bill count.

One session: counts by kind, its caption subjects, and a window of bills.

• kind: hb, sb, hr, or sr
• start: 0 or more
• limit: 1 to 500, default 500

Where a written bill reference leads. Accepts HB 136, H.B. 136, hb-136, House Bill 136, with or without a session.

• q: 1 to 200 characters

One bill: sponsors, status, history, and the labeled summaries. The bill text is not included.

The stored bill text with minimal metadata, as JSON.

The bill text alone as text/plain. The page and its twin are named in the Link header.

The bill's Markdown twin: frontmatter, the text as filed, then the labeled summaries.

• full=1: add history, votes, and amendments

Several bills at once, with their text. Up to 20 a call; the response names the rest in next_ids.

• ids: a comma-separated list, 1 to 2000 characters

Whether a quotation appears verbatim in the stored bill, after the same normalization the ingestion quote filter uses. in names the reading that matched: text (the words as printed), text_as_amended (struck passages left out), or text_before_amendment (added passages left out).

• body: {"id": ..., "quote": ...}
• quotes shorter than 12 characters are refused with a 422

The map: sessions with their counts, kinds, and caption subjects.

Provenance, coverage, license, and the independence statement.

The same search as Markdown: about ten hits with an id, a title, a status, a snippet, and a URL.

• q: required
• session, in: as above
• limit: 1 to 40, default 10

One session as Markdown, 500 bills a page.

• type: hb, sb, hr, or sr
• start: where the page begins

Every bill id with its date. No ETag on this one.

The grounded question answering behind the chat panel on a bill page, streamed. This one route holds a server-side key and is not part of the public API.

Coverage, counts, years, and corpus version.

Opinions with the newest filing date first.

• limit: 1 to 100, default 20
• offset: 0 to 10000

The same slim list, narrowed.

• year: a comma-separated list
• case_type: a comma-separated list
• q: at least two characters
• limit, offset: as above

Full-text search over opinion text, case names, and the labeled summaries. A bare docket or reporter citation is a direct lookup.

• q: required, 1 to 300 characters
• in: headings to search only names, legal areas, and case type
• year: 1900 to 2100
• case_type
• limit: 1 to 100, default 20

Search case names alone. Prefix matches rank first.

• q: at least two characters
• limit: 1 to 100, default 20

Every year with its opinion count.

One year: counts by case type and a window of opinions.

• case_type
• start: 0 or more
• limit: 1 to 400, default 400

Where a written reference leads. Accepts a docket in any case, a reporter citation in 883 S.E.2d 746, 883 SE2d 746, or 308 Ga. 283 form, a CourtListener id, or a case name.

• q: 1 to 200 characters

One opinion by docket, citation, id, or case name. The opinion text is not included.

One opinion at its stable address, for the 77 dockets that carry more than one row.

• full: add the summarized reasoning and the checked quotes

The opinion text alone as text/plain.

The opinion's Markdown twin: frontmatter, the court's text, then the labeled summaries.

• full=1: add the reasoning, the checked quotes, and the CourtListener records

The stored opinion text with its metadata, as JSON.

Several opinions at once, with their text. Up to 20 a call.

• ids: a comma-separated list, 1 to 2000 characters

Whether a quotation appears verbatim in the stored opinion.

• body: {"id": ..., "quote": ...}
• quotes shorter than 12 characters are refused with a 422

The map: years with their counts and case types.

Provenance, coverage, license, and the independence statement.

The same search as Markdown, about ten hits with snippets.

• q: required
• year, case_type, in: as above
• limit: 1 to 40, default 10

One year as Markdown, 400 opinions a page.

• case_type
• start: where the page begins

Every opinion id with its date. No ETag on this one.

The grounded question answering behind the chat panel on an opinion page, streamed. This one route holds a server-side key and is not part of the public API.

Coverage sentence and its qualifications, counts, corpus version, release date, and the bulk download addresses.

Every title with its headings and counts, plus both constitutions.

One section by citation, written any of the ways people write it. Returns every version, whether it is in force now, and the neighboring sections. A range or a list redirects to /items?ids=.

• version: one stored version rather than the current one

The statute text alone as text/plain.

• version

The section's Markdown twin.

• version
• notes=all: lift the 12,000-character cap on annotations
• subsection: one subsection, such as a-1

One title's chapters, with its articles, parts, and subparts.

The title's map as Markdown.

One chapter's sections, slim.

The chapter as Markdown.

• full=1: inline the section text, under a 200,000-character cap
• start: where the page begins

Full-text search of the Code. A bare citation is a direct lookup; an act's short title returns the section that states it.

• q: required, 1 to 300 characters
• in: headings to search only catchlines and headings
• title: 1 to 99
• chapter
• status: active (the default), repealed, reserved, redesignated, superseded, note_only, or all
• scheme: ocga (the default), ga, or us
• limit: 1 to 100, default 20

The short-title index: every name a statute gives itself, with the section that states it.

• q
• limit: 1 to 100, default 25

Several sections at once. Up to 20 ids, or a range of up to 40 sections, under a 300,000-character budget.

• ids: a comma-separated list; 44-7-30..44-7-35 for a range

Whether a quotation appears verbatim in the stored text.

• body: {"id": ..., "quote": ...}
• id is a citation, or ga-const:{slug} or us-const:{slug}

The map: 53 titles with their chapters, about 50 KB.

Provenance, coverage, license, and the independence statement.

Every short title, alphabetically, as Markdown.

The same search as Markdown, about ten hits with snippets.

• q: required
• title, chapter, status, scheme, in: as above
• limit: 1 to 40, default 10

A JSON listing of the download bundle: the release page, the checksum file, and each asset with its address. Always a listing, never a redirect.

One asset of the bundle.

Section ids, a page at a time.

• page: 0 or more; omit it for the list of pages

The articles and sections, plus any standalone provisions.

Every provision, one line each.

One provision, by slug (art-i-sec-i-para-i) or by citation.

The provision's Markdown twin.

• notes=all
• subsection

The provision's text alone as text/plain.

The API's own index: its version, the collections it serves, and where the MCP server is mounted.

Whether the process is up and which collections are loaded, with each one's count and corpus version.