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Today we’re making available the Real Time Congress API, a service we’ve been working on for several months, and will be continuing to expand.

The Real Time Congress API (RTC) is a RESTful API over the artifacts of Congress, kept up to date in as close to real time as possible. It consists of several live feeds of data, available in JSON or XML. These feeds are filterable and sortable and sliceable in all sorts of different ways, and you can read the docs to see how.

RTC replaces and deprecates the Drumbone API, which is no longer recommended for use.

Right now, the feeds in the Real Time Congress API are:

You can expect to see much of the data in the Real Time Congress API start appearing in our websites and applications (such as our Android and iOS apps) in the months ahead. In fact, StreamCongress is already using the RTC API for floor updates.

But we hope it starts appearing in your own apps too! As with our other projects, anyone with a Sunlight Labs API key can use it freely. If you have any questions, feel free to raise them on our API discussion list.