Healthcare.gov

About Healthcare.gov

The HealthCare.gov Content API provides machine-readable access to the educational content published on HealthCare.gov, the U.S. Health Insurance Marketplace website. It exposes the site's HTML pages as JSON through HTTP GET requests, covering three endpoint types: content objects (body content and metadata for individual posts), content collections (posts grouped by type, such as articles, blog, questions, glossary, states, and topics), and a content index (site-wide metadata for all posts). Content updates made on HealthCare.gov propagate automatically to any application or website consuming the API.

Requests are made by appending a .json extension to a post's URL for individual objects, or by hitting dedicated collection and index endpoints. Responses include fields such as title, content, author, date, language code, categories, tags, topics, and associated states, with some content also including Spanish-language translations (es-title, es-bite). The API is CORS-enabled for cross-domain requests from client-side JavaScript and also supports JSONP via a callback parameter.

The API is intended for developers, entrepreneurs, and partners building applications or websites that display or repurpose HealthCare.gov's educational content on health insurance and the Marketplace. The underlying source code is also published on GitHub.

Key features

• JSON API exposing HealthCare.gov content objects, collections, and a site-wide index
• Content objects retrievable by appending .json to any post URL
• Collection endpoints for articles, blog, questions, glossary, states, and topics
• CORS-enabled for cross-domain client-side JavaScript requests
• JSONP support via a callback parameter for script-embedded requests
• Source code freely available on GitHub

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