Reuse ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ content

To reuse content published on ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ you must meet the conditions of the .

ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ APIs

As well as providing content for people, ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ also provides content for computers. These are called APIs.

There are 3 APIs that enable you to reuse ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ content.

Content API

The Content API provides access to the data that renders content on ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥. You can use the ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ page URL to access the content and metadata hosted on ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥.

Read the for guidance on accessing and using this API.

Bank Holidays API

The Bank Holidays API (in JSON format) provides access to data about when the next bank holidays are in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Search API (unsupported)

You can access additional metadata that sits behind ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ search results by using the ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ Search API. You can filter this data in different ways.

For guidance on how to use this API, read the and the ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ .

This is an unsupported API, which means the API may change without notice.

Scraping the site

You can scrape ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ as long as you respect our robots.txt policy. If you make too many requests, your access will be limited until your request rate drops. This is known as rate limiting.

Schemas

ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ uses to make it easier for web crawlers to index the site. These include:

Sitemap

ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ provides a sitemap in XML format. This sitemap lists the majority of pages on ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥.

Registers

provide lists of information via a secure API. Each register contains reliable and consistent data to design and build services with.

ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ registers include:

Updates to this page

Last updated 9 December 2022