generated: '2026-09-10'
method: searched
source: >-
  registry.npmjs.org search + registry metadata, pypi.org/pypi/<name>/json, rubygems.org
  search API, crates.io search API, and the FAS OpendataWeb portal bundle
  (apps.fas.usda.gov/opendatawebV2/main.*.js) read for any SDK/download link
official_package_count: 0
note: >-
  USDA FAS publishes NO first-party client library in any public registry. The OpendataWeb
  portal ships only the Angular single-page app and a Swagger UI; it links no SDK, no download
  and no sample-code repository. Every registry below was queried directly and the result is
  recorded rather than assumed. The API is a plain HTTPS/JSON surface with one header
  (API_KEY), so a client library is a convenience rather than a requirement — but its absence
  is the finding, and NO `SDKs` pointer is wired into apis.yml because there is no official
  SDK for the `sdk_count` checks to count.
registries_checked:
  - registry: npm
    query: https://registry.npmjs.org/-/v1/search?text=usda-fas / fas-usda / "usda foreign agricultural"
    first_party_result: none
  - registry: PyPI
    query: pypi.org/pypi/{usda-fas,fas-api,usda-esr,psd-api,usdafas}/json
    first_party_result: none (404 on every candidate)
  - registry: RubyGems
    query: rubygems.org/api/v1/search.json?query=usda
    first_party_result: none (only third-party nutrition/FoodData Central gems)
  - registry: crates.io
    query: crates.io/api/v1/crates?q=usda
    first_party_result: none
  - registry: pkg.go.dev / Maven Central / NuGet / Packagist
    first_party_result: none — no USDA FAS namespace exists on any of them
packages: []
third_party:
  note: >-
    Recorded for completeness and explicitly NOT credited to FAS. These are community projects
    that wrap the public FAS Open Data Services; none is published, endorsed or maintained by
    USDA. They are listed because a consumer evaluating this API will meet them, and because a
    community wrapper existing while the provider ships none is itself a signal.
  packages:
    - language: javascript
      registry: npm
      name: "@pipeworx/mcp-fas"
      url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@pipeworx/mcp-fas
      repository: https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-fas
      description: "FAS MCP — USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (trade & global production data)"
      version: 0.1.0
      published: '2026-04-15'
      official: false
      publisher: pipeworx-io (npm maintainer "mojibake-ai") — not USDA
    - language: python
      registry: none
      name: usda-fas-sdk
      url: https://github.com/chhayly/usda-fas-sdk
      description: Community Python wrapper for the USDA FAS Open Data Services; source only, never published to PyPI
      version: null
      published: '2026-05-10'
      official: false
      publisher: chhayly (individual GitHub account) — not USDA
      note: >-
        version is null because the project has no registry release — it exists only as a
        GitHub repository, so a consumer cannot pin a version. `published` is the last push
        date to the default branch, not a release date.