GOV.UK Search API

curl 'https://www.gov.uk/api/search.json?count=1'

const res = await fetch("https://www.gov.uk/api/search.json?count=1");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

res = requests.get("https://www.gov.uk/api/search.json?count=1", timeout=20)
res.raise_for_status()
print(res.json())

{
  "results": [
    {
      "description": "Sign in to your Universal Credit account - report a change, add a note to your journal, see your payments and do other tasks ",
      "format": "transaction",
      "link": "/sign-in-universal-credit",
      "organisations": [
        {
          "organisation_type": "ministerial_department",
          "organisation_state": "live",
          "superseding_organisations": [],
          "acronym": "DWP",
          "content_id": "b548a09f-8b35-4104-89f4-f1a40bf3136d",
          "link": "/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions",
          "parent_organisations": [],
          "superseded_organisations": [
            "department-of-social-security",
            "pension-service",
            "pension-disability-and-carers-service",
            "disability-and-carers-service",
            "bpdts-ltd"
          ],
          "analytics_identifier": "D10",
          "title": "Department for Work and Pensions",
          "organisation_crest": "single-identity",
          "organisation_brand": "department-for-work-pensions",
          "child_organisations": [
            "equality-2025",
            "industrial-injuries-advisory-council",
            "social-security-advisory-committee",
            "health-and-safety-executive",
            "the-pensions-advisory-service",
            "the-pensions-regulator",
            "pension-protection-fund-ombudsman",
            "pensions-ombudsman",
            "national-employment-savings-trust",
            "remploy-ltd",
            "pension-protection-fund",
            "indepen