I’m sure you love our maps and widgets, stakeholder pages and scorecards as much as we do. But perhaps you’d like to build your own custom display, especially of scorecard data. We’re happy to announce with our new API 2.0.
In addition to our web application, BillTrack50 allows remote access to data to subscribing members through the use of a web services api. Web services provide functionality that enable separate systems to communicate with each other using standard web protocols such as HTTP, TCP/IP, and JSON. Using a simple standards based communication model opens the exposed functionality to a wide variety of system and programming languages, and is a natural extension of our main web site. Our web services api should interest any business interested in integrating legislative bill searching directly into their web site or application. With the 2.0 version of web services BillTrack50 is opening the door to providing access to company specific data in addition to the publicly available bill and legislator data. The new web service will continue to grow as we provide additional endpoints to allow greater access to your data and help you power your legislative information needs.
To get your API 2.0 key
contact us. This key will be different than the one you are currently using (if you are currently using our API). One word of caution, since your key can be used to access your private comments, be careful where you publish it and who you share it with. If you are using our current API don’t worry, those keys do not allow access to your personal information.
Complete documentation of the new API 2.0 is here: https://www.billtrack50.com/Documentation/WebServices/v2.0
About BillTrack50 – BillTrack50 is a user friendly free service that provides legislation research in all 50 states and federally. BillTrack50 also offers legislation and regulation tracking across the nation with tools to help organization stay on top of changes (bill sheets and alerts) and share legislation they are tracking with key stakeholders (legislator scorecards, widgets and stakeholder pages). If you are interested in learning more about how BillTrack50 saves organizations time and money, sign up for a demo and try it out BillTrack50 Pro for a month, for free.
