specification: API Commons Packages
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: Department of Justice
providerId: department-of-justice
generated: '2026-09-06'
method: searched
source: >-
  Searched npm (registry.npmjs.org exact-name lookups), PyPI, CRAN/crandb.r-pkg.org, RubyGems,
  crates.io and the DOJ, FOIA.gov and BJS developer pages for first-party client libraries. DOJ
  publishes no SDK of its own on any registry; the one maintained client library found is a
  third-party R package.
description: >-
  Client libraries for the Department of Justice API surface. The Department publishes no
  first-party SDK in any package registry — the DOJ Developer Resources page, the justice.gov
  api_v1 documentation, the FOIA.gov developer page and the BJS NCVS/NIBRS API pages all
  document raw HTTP calls only. The single actively maintained client is the community R
  package `usdoj`, published on CRAN by rOpenGov, which wraps the DOJ News API.
official_sdk_count: 0
package_count: 1
packages:
  - name: usdoj
    registry: cran
    language: R
    official: false
    url: https://cran.r-project.org/package=usdoj
    repository: https://github.com/rOpenGov/usdoj
    version: 1.1.2
    published: '2025-05-14'
    covers:
      - DOJ News API
    maintainer: Steph Buongiorno (rOpenGov)
    note: >-
      Third-party, not published by the Department of Justice. Wraps
      https://www.justice.gov/developer/api-documentation/api_v1 for press releases, blog
      entries and speeches. Version and publication date read from
      https://crandb.r-pkg.org/usdoj on 2026-09-06; the GitHub source repository was last
      pushed 2026-07-17, so the library is maintained ahead of its last CRAN release.
absent:
  - registry: npm
    note: 'No first-party package. Exact-name lookups on registry.npmjs.org for usdoj, foia-gov and doj-news all returned 404 on 2026-09-06.'
  - registry: pypi
    note: 'No first-party package. Exact-name lookups on pypi.org for foia-api, pyfoia and fara-api all returned 404 on 2026-09-06.'
  - registry: rubygems
    note: No first-party package found.
  - registry: maven
    note: No first-party package found.
  - registry: nuget
    note: No first-party package found.
  - registry: crates.io
    note: No first-party package found.
  - registry: pkg.go.dev
    note: No first-party package found.