generated: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TAsTWs.xml ; https://services6.arcgis.com/R6wlO6UHmSzqm9Vs/arcgis/rest/services ;
  openapi/bureau-of-consular-affairs-discovery-api-openapi.yml
versioning:
  scheme: uri-path
  current: '3'
  surface: CKAN Action API
  detail: >-
    The CA Data Catalog runs CKAN and pins the API generation in the path — /api/3/action/{action}.
    The bureau publishes no versioning policy of its own; the "3" is CKAN's Action API generation and
    has been stable across CKAN 2.x. The ArcGIS Feature Services report currentVersion 12 (ArcGIS
    Online 12.0.0), which is Esri's platform version, not a bureau-declared API version.
  docs: null
deprecation:
  policy_url: null
  sunset_header: false
  detail: >-
    No deprecation policy, Sunset header (RFC 8594) or Deprecation header is published for any
    surface. Data-level retirement happens by dataset: yearly adoption-statistics Feature Services
    are added rather than superseded, and older Travel Advisory map services (Travel_Advisories_7_30,
    Travel_Advisories_CubaUpdate0823, TravelAdvisories_haitiUpdate) remain published alongside the
    current "(2024)" view layer with no notice marking the earlier ones stale.
sla:
  url: null
  uptime_target: null
  detail: No SLA or uptime commitment is published for any bureau API surface.
status_page: null
status_page_detail: >-
  No status page found. status.state.gov does not resolve; travel.state.gov/status returns the
  Cloudflare 403 interstitial served to this crawler for every travel.state.gov page path.
change_feed:
  detail: >-
    The closest thing to a published change log is the Travel Advisories RSS feed, which is dated
    per item and carries an explicit "what changed" sentence in each description (e.g. "There were
    no changes to the advisory level or risk indicators. Advisory summary was updated."). It is a
    content feed, not an API change log — it tells you when an ADVISORY changed, never when the
    INTERFACE changed.
  feeds:
    - url: https://travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TAsTWs.xml
      title: 'travel.state.gov: Travel Advisories'
      format: RSS 2.0
      http_status: 200
      items_observed: 216
      most_recent_item: '2026-09-04'
      fetched: '2026-09-05'
    - url: https://travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TAs.xml
      http_status: 200
      note: Served but empty at fetch time (343 bytes, no items).
      fetched: '2026-09-05'
    - url: https://travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TWs.xml
      http_status: 200
      note: Served but empty at fetch time (343 bytes, no items).
      fetched: '2026-09-05'
deprecated_operations: []
notes:
  - >-
    An archived developer portal exists at https://2017-2021.state.gov/developer/ (HTTP 200). It is a
    frozen National Archives snapshot of the 2017-2021 administration's site, not a live program —
    treated as historical evidence that the Department once ran a developer community, not as a
    current portal.