Reuse ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº content
To reuse content published on ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº you must meet the conditions of the .
ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº APIs
As well as providing content for people, ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº also provides content for computers. These are called APIs.
There are 3 APIs that enable you to reuse ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº content.
Content API
The Content API provides access to the data that renders content on ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº. You can use the ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº page URL to access the content and metadata hosted on ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº.
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 ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº search results by using the ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº Search API. You can filter this data in different ways.
For guidance on how to use this API, read the and the ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº .
This is an unsupported API, which means the API may change without notice.
Scraping the site
You can scrape ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº 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
ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº uses to make it easier for web crawlers to index the site. These include:
- for most pages on ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº
- for all news on ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº
- for step-by-step journeys such as ‘Learn to drive a car’
Sitemap
ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº provides a sitemap in XML format. This sitemap lists the majority of pages on ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº.
Registers
provide lists of information via a secure API. Each register contains reliable and consistent data to design and build services with.
ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº registers include: