Use the data

Every executive order and proclamation Theodore Roosevelt signed as president is available as open JSON: date, number, title, summary, subjects, places, countersignature, citations and text. Build a classroom timeline, a map of national forests, or a daily post. No key, no sign-up.

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JSON API

Base URL: https://executiveactions.labs.trlibrary.com/api/v1/. Every endpoint is a static file, cached at the edge and open to cross-site requests.

Endpoint	Returns
index.json	Dataset metadata, counts by type, year, month and subject, sources, license and the endpoint list
documents.json	Every document in compact form: id, type, number, date, title, summary, categories, action, states, significance, stories, has_text. Lord's duplicate entries come last, marked `duplicate_of`
documents/{id}.json	One full record: text and its provenance, citations, countersignature, places, people, date and title notes, what happened next (reception, impact, legacy, where it stands today), connected documents, story titles, previous and next by date
years/{YYYY}.json	Documents signed in a year (1901–1909)
categories/index.json, categories/{slug}.json	Subjects with counts, and the documents in each
states/index.json, states/{slug}.json	States and territories with counts, and the documents acting on each
types/{type}.json	`executive_order`, `proclamation` or `unnumbered_order`
stories/index.json, stories/{number or slug}.json	The stories behind the documents: metadata, Markdown, rendered HTML, open questions and the documents each covers
on-this-day/{MM-DD}.json	Documents signed on that calendar date in any year, most significant first. Every date has a file, even when it is empty
then-and-now/index.json	Present-day parks, forests, refuges and other places that trace to a Roosevelt document, with how they are linked. Also `then-and-now/{kind}.json`
countersigners.json	Who countersigned the proclamations, in what role, how often and when
search.json	id, title, summary, date and type for client-side search

Try it

Any path from the table above, relative to /api/v1/.

…

fetch("https://executiveactions.labs.trlibrary.com/api/v1/on-this-day/06-08.json")
  .then(r => r.json())
  .then(d => d.documents.forEach(x => console.log(x.date, x.label, x.title)));

Fields worth knowing

id: eo-1003, eo-389-a, eo-288-half for numbered executive orders; proc-563 for proclamations; proc-x-1907-01-24 for the three proclamations outside the numbered series; uo-001 to uo-126 for Lord's unnumbered orders.
date: YYYY-MM-DD, or YYYY-MM when only the month is known (date_precision: "month"), or null.
text.kind: statutes_digitization, wikisource_transcription or collated. text.verified is false until the text has been checked against the printed page. Check the citations.statutes.page_image before quoting.
duplicate_of: set on the 21 entries in Lord's list that describe an order already in the numbered series. Treat them as cross-references, not separate actions.
significance: 1 (individual personnel action) to 5 (landmark), assigned by the Library as a browsing aid. summary, categories and significance may be null or empty while work continues; fall back to title.

Downloads

documents.csv, one row per document, for spreadsheets
documents.jsonl, the full dataset with texts, one JSON record per line
stats.json, summary counts

Credit

Data: CC BY 4.0, Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. Please credit “Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, Theodore Roosevelt's Executive Orders and Proclamations” with a link to this site. The documents' texts are U.S. government works in the public domain. Code: MIT. More on sources and limits in About the data.