FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
The Federal Communications Commission provides free public REST APIs for radio station license lookup, broadband coverage maps, spectrum auction data, broadcast contours, census block conversions, consumer complaint databases, electronic comment filings, and regulatory data. All APIs are free with no authentication required for most endpoints.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles FCC (Federal Communications Commission) the way a machine reads it — 36 machine-readable artifacts across 2 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — FCC (Federal Communications Commission) scores 31.7/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 18/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for FCC (Federal Communications Commission). For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 19
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
FCC License View API
Provides information about FCC-issued licenses for use of the nation's airwaves, including snapshots of license counts across different radio services such as 700 MHz, 800 MHz C...
FCC Spectrum Dashboard API
Returns a high-level overview of spectrum ownership across the United States within the 225 MHz to 3700 MHz frequency range, including call sign, licensee name, common name, rad...
FCC Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) API
Enables external users and organizations to search the FCC Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) for regulatory filings and public comments without using the web interface. Fr...
FCC Consumer Complaints Center Data API
Provides access to consumer complaint data submitted to the FCC, including complaints about telephone, internet, television, and radio services.
FCC Public Inspection Files API
Provides programmatic access to public inspection files for broadcast, cable, satellite, and wireless telecommunications entities regulated by the FCC.
FCC Broadband Data Collection (BDC) API
Allows ISPs and developers to interface with the FCC Broadband Data Collection system via API endpoints, including the ability to respond to fixed availability challenges progra...
FCC Content API
Makes FCC website content accessible to applications, leveraging Drupal as a content management system to deliver news, documents, and regulatory content programmatically.
FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Am Pattern API
Get AM antenna pattern data
FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Antenna API
Get antenna pattern data for TV and FM stations
FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Area API
Get market area data by latitude and longitude
FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Block API
Get census block, county, and state FIPS codes by latitude and longitude
FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Coordinate Conversion API
Convert between decimal degrees and degrees-minutes-seconds
FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Coverage API
Get service contour for TV and FM stations
FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Distance API
Calculate distance using F-curve propagation curves
FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Elevation API
Get terrain elevation data at a given location
FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Entity API
Get coverage contour by entity (call sign, facility ID, or application ID)
FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Haat API
Get Height Above Average Terrain (HAAT) data
FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Profile API
Get terrain elevation profile between two points
FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Projection API
Project coordinates between coordinate reference systems
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Open Collections 13
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONFCC Contours Am Pattern API
OPEN COLLECTIONFCC Contours Antenna API
OPEN COLLECTIONFCC and Census Block Area API
OPEN COLLECTIONFCC Area and Census Block API
OPEN COLLECTIONFCC Contours Coordinate Conversion API
OPEN COLLECTIONFCC Contours Coverage API
OPEN COLLECTIONFCC Contours Distance API
OPEN COLLECTIONFCC Contours Elevation API
OPEN COLLECTIONFCC Contours Entity API
OPEN COLLECTIONFCC Contours Haat API
OPEN COLLECTIONFCC Contours Profile API
OPEN COLLECTIONFCC Contours Projection API
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Fcc Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Fcc Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Fcc Finops
FINOPSSecurity Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for FCC (Federal Communications Commission) — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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