aid: cfpb
name: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
description: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) provides public REST APIs for searching consumer financial complaint data, accessing Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) mortgage lending records, and retrieving regulatory filing data. These APIs support financial researchers, journalists, developers, and the general public in understanding consumer financial markets and lending practices across the United States.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cfpb/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: "2026-06-13"
modified: "2026-06-13"
specificationVersion: "0.19"
tags:
  - Consumer Finance
  - Government
  - Complaints
  - Mortgage
  - HMDA
  - Financial Data
  - Regulatory
  - Open Data
apis:
  - aid: cfpb:consumer-complaint-database-api
    name: Consumer Complaint Database API
    description: Provides programmatic access to the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database, enabling search and retrieval of consumer financial complaints submitted to companies. Supports filtering by product, issue, company, state, date range, and other fields, with results returned as JSON. Contains over 15 million complaint records.
    humanURL: https://cfpb.github.io/api/ccdb/
    baseURL: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/search/api/v1/
    tags:
      - Consumer Complaints
      - Financial Services
      - Search
      - Open Data
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://cfpb.github.io/api/ccdb/api.html
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://cfpb.github.io/ccdb5-api/documentation/
      - type: GitHubRepository
        url: https://github.com/cfpb/ccdb5-api
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cfpb/main/openapi/cfpb-consumer-complaint-database-api-openapi.yml
  - aid: cfpb:hmda-data-browser-api
    name: HMDA Data Browser API
    description: Provides access to Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data, enabling aggregation reports and CSV downloads of mortgage lending records filtered by geography (state, county, MSA/MD), financial institution LEI, and year. Supports nationwide and regional queries for analyzing mortgage lending patterns and fair lending compliance.
    humanURL: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/documentation/api/data-browser/
    baseURL: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/data-browser-api/
    tags:
      - Mortgage
      - HMDA
      - Lending
      - Financial Data
      - Open Data
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/documentation/api/data-browser/
      - type: GitHubRepository
        url: https://github.com/cfpb/hmda-platform
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cfpb/main/openapi/cfpb-hmda-data-browser-api-openapi.yml
  - aid: cfpb:hmda-filing-api
    name: HMDA Platform Filing API
    description: Enables financial institutions to submit Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data programmatically to the FFIEC HMDA Platform. Provides endpoints for filing submissions, uploading loan application register (LAR) files, checking submission status, and retrieving edit reports for regulatory compliance.
    humanURL: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/documentation/category/developer-apis
    baseURL: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/
    tags:
      - HMDA
      - Filing
      - Regulatory
      - Mortgage
      - Submission
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/documentation/category/developer-apis
      - type: GitHubRepository
        url: https://github.com/cfpb/hmda-platform
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cfpb/main/openapi/cfpb-hmda-filing-api-openapi.yml
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cfpb.github.io/
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/cfpb
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/consumer-financial-protection-bureau/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/
  - type: X
    url: https://twitter.com/CFPB
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/cfpb-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/cfpb-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/cfpb-finops.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com