: Search Suggestions

API: loc.gov:library-of-congress-apis
Endpoint: /search/suggest/
Response format: text/html
Charset: utf-8
Auth: none
Method: GET
Last Status: 403
Latency: 119ms

Description

Get search suggestions for autocomplete functionality.

Parameters (1)

q (string, query, required)

Partial search query

Examples (1)

Search Suggestions openapi-spec
curl 'https://www.loc.gov/search/suggest/?q=hist'
import requests

resp = requests.get(
    "https://www.loc.gov/search/suggest/",
    params={
        'q': 'hist',
    },
)
data = resp.json()
import zingu_apis

api = zingu_apis.api("library-of-congress-apis")
result = api.fetch("search/suggest/", q="hist")

for item in result:
    print(item)
const resp = await fetch("https://www.loc.gov/search/suggest/?q=hist");
const data = await resp.json();

Probe History

Latency

Status Codes

TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-04-16 02:08:50.779362 403 119ms
2026-04-15 00:33:47.068939 403 123ms
2026-04-14 00:47:07.843804 403 121ms
2026-04-12 16:00:29.739403 403 145ms
2026-04-10 01:05:45.673035 403 109ms
2026-04-09 02:47:25.795406 403 151ms
2026-04-08 02:18:54.193741 403 468ms
2026-04-07 00:13:41.693094 403 129ms
2026-04-05 22:52:08.512457 403 278ms
2026-04-05 00:43:26.899396 403 195ms
2026-04-04 02:34:00.249113 403 110ms
2026-04-03 12:15:42.016908 403 121ms
2026-03-30 02:52:44.439149 403 125ms
2026-03-29 12:56:01.648130 403 103ms
2026-03-23 09:47:29.360357 403 91ms