aid: state-dept
name: State Department
description: >
  The US Department of State provides public REST APIs for accessing consular
  affairs data including travel advisories by country and risk level, country
  travel information, passport acceptance facility locations, passport issuance
  statistics, and geopolitical reference data. The Consular Affairs Data API
  (cadataapi.state.gov) offers open, unauthenticated endpoints covering all
  countries with real-time travel advisory updates across four alert levels.
  Additional historical diplomatic records are available through the Foreign
  Relations of the United States (FRUS) catalog API.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/state-dept/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
  - US Government
  - Travel
  - Passports
  - Visas
  - Travel Advisories
  - Consular Affairs
  - Foreign Policy
  - Diplomatic
  - Country Information
  - Public Safety
apis:
  - aid: state-dept-consular-affairs
    name: State Department Consular Affairs API
    description: >
      Public REST API providing travel advisories for all countries with alert
      levels (Exercise Normal Precautions, Exercise Increased Caution, Reconsider
      Travel, Do Not Travel), country-specific travel information, passport
      acceptance facility locations searchable by ZIP code or state, and
      passport issuance statistics by fiscal and calendar year.
    image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    humanURL: https://cadataapi.state.gov/
    baseURL: https://cadataapi.state.gov
    tags:
      - Travel Advisories
      - Passports
      - Country Information
      - Consular Affairs
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://cadataapi.state.gov/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://cadataapi.state.gov/
    contact:
      - FN: US Department of State Consular Affairs
        url: https://travel.state.gov/
  - aid: state-dept-travel-advisories
    name: State Department Travel Advisories
    description: >
      REST endpoint returning current travel advisories for all countries
      worldwide. Each advisory includes the country name, alert level (1-4),
      publication date, last updated timestamp, and detailed HTML summary of
      risks including crime, terrorism, health threats, civil unrest, and
      kidnapping. Individual country advisories can be retrieved by country code.
    image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    humanURL: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories.html/
    baseURL: https://cadataapi.state.gov
    tags:
      - Travel Advisories
      - Country Safety
      - Risk Assessment
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://cadataapi.state.gov/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://cadataapi.state.gov/
    contact:
      - FN: US Department of State Travel
        url: https://travel.state.gov/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.state.gov/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cadataapi.state.gov/
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/USStateDept
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/statedept
  - type: Blog
    url: https://www.state.gov/blogs
  - type: X
    url: https://x.com/StateDept
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/state-dept-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/state-dept-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/state-dept-finops.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com