specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Bureau of International Labor Affairs
providerId: bureau-of-international-labor-affairs
generated: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://dataportal.dol.gov/registration, https://dataportal.dol.gov/api-keys and the
  DOL API Terms of Service (revised 2020-08-05), read from the portal's shipped bundle
  https://dataportal.dol.gov/static/js/main.1788ccf8.js.
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-05'
supersedes: >-
  A 2026-05-04 bulk-sweep scaffold that invented Free / Professional / Enterprise tiers
  with request quotas, overage pricing and SLA targets. DOL publishes none of that. It has
  been replaced with the real commercial model.
description: >-
  There is no commercial model. The ILAB datasets are U.S. federal public data served
  through the Department of Labor Open Data Portal API at no charge. There is one access
  level, it is free, and the only gate is a self-service registration form.
plan_count: 1
pricing_model: free-public-data
currency: USD
paid_tiers: 0
plans:
  - id: bureau-of-international-labor-affairs-public
    name: Public (free)
    type: free
    price: '0.00'
    currency: USD
    billing_period: none
    description: >-
      The only access level. Register an account, complete the API User Questionnaire,
      accept the Terms of Service, and a key is issued. Up to 5 keys per account.
    signup: https://dataportal.dol.gov/registration
    key_management: https://dataportal.dol.gov/api-keys
    quota: none published
    overage: not applicable
    limits:
      - Up to 5 MB or 10,000 records per response, whichever is hit first
      - Up to 5 API keys per account
    entries:
      - label: API Requests
        description: >-
          No request quota is published. DOL reserves a discretionary right to limit or
          block use but attaches no number to it.
        name: api_requests
        type: quota
        metric: requests
        limit: null
        timeFrame: null
        price: '0.00'
      - label: Response ceiling
        description: Maximum records or payload returned by a single request.
        name: response_ceiling
        type: rate
        metric: records_per_request
        limit: 10000
        timeFrame: request
        price: '0.00'
    elements:
      - Full public dataset catalogue (https://apiprod.dol.gov/v4/datasets, anonymous)
      - Dataset metadata (key required)
      - Dataset records in json, xml or csv (key required)
      - Seven ILAB datasets (Child Labor Report, ImportWatch x3, LaborShield x3)
notes:
  - >-
    The anonymous catalogue endpoint https://apiprod.dol.gov/v4/datasets requires no key
    at all — verified 200 on 2026-09-05.
  - >-
    Terms of Service require attribution: "This product uses the US Department of Labor
    API but is not endorsed or certified by the US Department of Labor."
  - >-
    Offered "as is" and "as-available" with no warranty and no SLA.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com