> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.gdeltcloud.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # List Offices > Public political offices — legislative seats, cabinet posts, heads of state and government, courts, security and financial offices and IGO posts — one row per office, dataset-independent, with holder counts. Scope and branch are derived from the source's `gov.*` topics so they are closed, filterable vocabularies. `holders_current` is NULL, never 0, when no source asserts currency for the office. Actor context for geopolitical analysis; NOT a PEP or sanctions-screening tool. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/openapi-v2.json get /api/v2/offices openapi: 3.0.3 info: title: GDELT Cloud API v2 version: 2.0.0 description: >- Clean v2 REST API for generated GDELT Cloud structured Events, clustered Stories, linked Entities, summaries, admin1 discovery, significance ranking, and paginated article evidence. Event significance is a family-scoped weighted blend, renormalized so every event family spans a true 0-1: each event's raw total is divided by the maximum its own family can reach (Conflict 1.00, CAMEO+ POLITICAL 0.90, other CAMEO+ domains 0.65). All events: Goldstein severity 0.25, article evidence 0.05, confidence 0.05. Conflict only: fatalities 0.55 (log-scaled by body count) and civilian targeting 0.10. CAMEO+ only: magnitude 0.20, systemic importance 0.15, propagation potential 0.10, market sensitivity 0.10. When magnitude is unmeasured its term AND its 0.20 weight are both dropped. The four CAMEO+ metrics are rubric scores produced by published formulas - ordinal ranking signals, not measurements, probabilities, or predicted price moves. goldstein_scale is one canonical public metric, populated for Conflict Events and CAMEO+ POLITICAL Events where meaningful. Story linked_event_count is a Story-to-Event link aggregate, not a distinct Event total. servers: - url: https://gdeltcloud.com description: Production - url: http://localhost:3000 description: Local development security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] tags: - name: Events description: Coded CAMEO+ / conflict events — search, fetch, and summarize. - name: Stories description: Clustered narratives (stories) and their articles. - name: Situations description: >- One real-world occurrence as the Stories and coded Events that belong to it — stored, adjudicated membership (`meta.situation_source: curated`) or a walked neighbourhood around a Story. Discovery, detail, four independently paged member lists, and the only write on the core surface (5 QU with an Idempotency-Key). - name: Entities description: >- People & organizations — resolve a name to an entity, then fetch its profile and tone. Also the publication activity journal (/api/v2/activity): observed evidence of what was published about identities and records — committed batches only, cursor-paged, never source intake. - name: Unified Search description: >- One fuzzy lookup across every id-space — start here with a name, take the entity id, then reuse it on every other surface. This is the resolver the rest of the API assumes you called first. - name: Media Intelligence description: >- Press-coverage tone over time and share of voice against a peer set. Requires the `can_use_tone` / `can_use_share_of_voice` entitlement; social signal is an admin-only preview. - name: Facilities description: >- Unified physical-asset directory — GEM energy assets, World Port Index ports and Epoch AI data centers on one keyed surface, resolved to spine owners. Requires the `can_use_facilities` entitlement. - name: Monitors description: >- Organization-shared scheduled checks over the Core API, with email and signed-webhook delivery. Monitor execution does not consume query units. - name: Geography description: >- Country context and admin-1 geography: /api/v2/countries (publication activity, reporting counts, dated economic and resource fundamentals, facility and office inventories, directory mode over every registered country) and admin-1 lookups. - name: Government description: >- US federal awards (USAspending) and foreign-influence registrations (DOJ NSD FARA), resolved onto the entity spine. Requires the `can_use_gov` entitlement. - name: Political Offices description: >- Public political offices and who holds them — legislatures, cabinets, heads of state, courts and IGO posts, with the office start/end dates the publisher states (valid time), resolved onto the entity spine. Actor context for geopolitical analysis; NOT a PEP or sanctions-screening tool. Requires the `can_use_offices` entitlement. - name: Filings description: >- SEC EDGAR filings, XBRL financials, and relations extracted from filing text. Requires the `can_use_filings` entitlement. - name: Reference Data description: >- The GLEIF Global LEI Index — legal-entity reference data, consolidation relationships, and LEI↔ISIN mappings. Requires the `can_use_gleif` entitlement. - name: Energy description: Global Energy Monitor assets + ownership registry. - name: AI Compute description: >- Epoch AI datasets — models, hardware, data centers, companies and chip sales. Requires the `can_use_epoch_ai` entitlement. - name: Macro Finance description: >- FRED economic time series — catalog, point-in-time observations and releases. Requires the `can_use_macro` entitlement. - name: Screening and Reference description: >- Restricted-party lists, name screening and ownership-chain exposure. Requires the `can_use_screening` / `can_use_exposure` entitlement. Analytical coverage, not an audit-grade compliance control. - name: China description: >- China overseas development finance (AidData GCDF). Requires the `can_use_china` entitlement. - name: Maritime description: >- AIS-derived vessel flow — chokepoint transits, last-known vessel positions, carriers, dwell and AIS-dark gaps. Terrestrial AIS only, so coverage thins in open ocean. Requires the `can_use_maritime` entitlement. - name: Atlas Intelligence description: >- Geopolitical-risk and posture indices computed from GDELT Cloud’s own coded events, normalized to each place’s own frozen baseline. - name: Briefs description: Source-backed monitoring briefs. - name: Meta description: >- Machine-readable discovery: the value vocabularies, the endpoint contracts, and the query-unit cost model. Unmetered, so a client can check before it spends. paths: /api/v2/offices: get: tags: - Political Offices summary: List Offices description: >- Public political offices — legislative seats, cabinet posts, heads of state and government, courts, security and financial offices and IGO posts — one row per office, dataset-independent, with holder counts. Scope and branch are derived from the source's `gov.*` topics so they are closed, filterable vocabularies. `holders_current` is NULL, never 0, when no source asserts currency for the office. Actor context for geopolitical analysis; NOT a PEP or sanctions-screening tool. operationId: list-offices-v2 parameters: - name: limit in: query required: false schema: type: integer minimum: 1 maximum: 100 default: 25 description: >- Rows per page. Default 25, max 100. Note: validation is owned by the endpoint service because it depends on composed or cross-parameter state; the published error semantics above still apply. example: '25' - name: cursor in: query required: false schema: type: string description: >- Opaque pagination cursor taken from the previous response's `pagination.next_cursor`. Also accepts: `offset`. Note: validation is owned by the endpoint service because it depends on composed or cross-parameter state; the published error semantics above still apply. example: '25' x-aliases: - offset - name: include_facets in: query required: false schema: type: boolean default: false description: >- Include complete country facets over the served office registry, independent of pagination and country/name filters. Holder counts are terms across offices, not distinct people. Null facets mean unavailable. example: 'true' - name: country in: query required: false schema: type: string description: >- Country of the office (ISO-3, ISO-2, or a name; comma-separate for OR). IGO / supranational posts carry no country and never match a country filter — use `scope=international` for those. Also accepts: `country_iso3`. Matched case-insensitively. Note: validation is owned by the endpoint service because it depends on composed or cross-parameter state; the published error semantics above still apply. Full value list: https://docs.gdeltcloud.com/reference/enums#country example: KEN x-aliases: - country_iso3 - name: scope in: query required: false schema: type: string enum: - national - subnational - international description: >- Level of government: `national`, `subnational` (state / province / municipality) or `international` (IGO and supranational posts). Derived from the source's topics; an office with no scope topic is `national`. Matched case-insensitively. Full value list: https://docs.gdeltcloud.com/reference/enums#office_scope example: national - name: branch in: query required: false schema: type: string enum: - legislative - executive - head - judicial - security - financial - igo - other description: >- Branch of government. `head` (head of state / government) wins over `executive` when a office carries both topics. `other` is sendable and returns the offices whose topics name no recognised branch. Also accepts: `topic`. Matched case-insensitively. Full value list: https://docs.gdeltcloud.com/reference/enums#office_branch example: legislative x-aliases: - topic - name: organization in: query required: false schema: type: string description: >- The legislature / ministry / court the office belongs to. A spine `e_…` id matches the resolved organization exactly (the arbiter family, so a merged-away alias still matches); any other value is a case-insensitive substring match on the organization name as published. Also accepts: `organization_entity_id`, `org`. Note: validation is owned by the endpoint service because it depends on composed or cross-parameter state; the published error semantics above still apply. example: National Assembly x-aliases: - organization_entity_id - org - name: q in: query required: false schema: type: string description: >- Case-insensitive substring match over the office `name`. This is NOT semantic search — nothing is embedded, and a conceptually related term that does not appear literally will not match. Results keep the `sort` order, not a relevance ranking, so a query matching more rows than `limit` returns the first page of that order — narrow with `country`. Also accepts: `search`. Note: validation is owned by the endpoint service because it depends on composed or cross-parameter state; the published error semantics above still apply. example: Minister of Finance x-aliases: - search - name: has_holders in: query required: false schema: type: boolean description: >- `true` restricts to offices with at least one office-holder on record (any status); `false` to offices we know only as an office, with nobody recorded in it. This counts office_holders, not asserted currency — an office whose only holders are `status: unknown` still has holders. example: 'true' - name: as_of in: query required: false schema: type: string format: date description: >- VALID TIME — who HELD the office on this date (YYYY-MM-DD), read from the start/end dates the publisher states. This is NOT knowledge-time replay: it is not routed through the `can_use_asof` gate and does not answer "what did we know then". An office-holder with no published start date cannot be placed on a date and is EXCLUDED rather than guessed — `meta.undated_office_holders` counts how many the date could not see. A future date is accepted and reads as "still in office as far as the source has published". example: '2022-08-01' - name: sort in: query required: false schema: type: string enum: - name - holders_desc - country default: name description: >- Ordering: `name` (default) · `holders_desc` · `country`. Matched case-insensitively. Full value list: https://docs.gdeltcloud.com/reference/enums#offices_sort example: holders_desc responses: '200': description: Success content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: success: type: boolean data: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/OfficeCard' examples: default: summary: Kenya — national legislature value: success: true data: [] '400': description: Invalid or unsupported parameter (see `code` and `details`) '401': description: Missing or invalid API key '403': description: Plan does not include this surface '404': description: Not found '429': description: Quota or rate limit exceeded '500': description: Server error security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] components: schemas: OfficeCard: type: object properties: office_id: type: string description: >- Wikidata QID of the office (`Q…`) when it has one, else the deterministic `p_` + 16-hex id. Stable across re-projection. name: type: string wikidata_qid: type: string nullable: true country_iso3: type: string nullable: true description: Null for IGO / supranational posts. subnational_area: type: string nullable: true description: >- State / province / municipality when the post is subnational; null otherwise. scope: type: string enum: - national - subnational - international description: Derived from the `gov.*` topics — see the `office_scope` vocabulary. branch: type: string enum: - legislative - executive - head - judicial - security - financial - igo - other description: >- Derived from the `gov.*` topics — see the `office_branch` vocabulary. topics: type: array items: type: string organization: type: object properties: entity_id: type: string nullable: true description: >- Terminal spine `e_…` id of the legislature / ministry / court; null when unbound. name: type: string nullable: true required: - entity_id - name after_office_years: type: number inception_date: type: string nullable: true description: When the office was created, as published; may precede 1970. dissolution_date: type: string nullable: true description: When it was abolished; null = extant. holders_total: type: number holders_current: type: number nullable: true holders_as_of: type: number datasets: type: array items: type: string first_seen_date: type: string last_seen_date: type: string detail_url: type: string holders_url: type: string holder_preview: type: array items: type: object properties: office_id: type: string office_name: type: string entity_id: type: string nullable: true description: >- Terminal spine `e_…` entity id of the holder (the id space `/api/v2/events?entity=`, `/api/v2/entities/{id}` and `/api/v2/entities/{id}/offices` accept), collapsed through the arbiter. Null for a holder the binder did not mint — identify that holder by `holder_source_ref`. name: type: string holder_source_ref: type: string status: type: string enum: - current - ended - unknown description: >- The publisher's assertion — see the `office_holder_status` vocabulary. `unknown` is served as-is, never coerced from the dates. start_date: type: string nullable: true description: TRUE valid time, as published. Null = not stated. end_date: type: string nullable: true description: >- As published. Null = not stated — which is NOT the same as `status: current`. date_precision: type: string enum: - day - month - year - unknown description: >- How much of `start_date` the source asserted. The projection places a partial date (`YYYY`, `YYYY-MM`) at the first day of its period, so precision is inferred back conservatively: `-01-01` → `year`, `-01` → `month`. It UNDER-claims for a genuine 1 January and never over-claims. `unknown` = no start date was published. election_date: type: string nullable: true constituency: type: string nullable: true description: 'Legislators: the seat / district.' pep_until_date: type: string nullable: true sources: type: array items: type: string evidence_url: type: string nullable: true office_holder_uids: type: array items: type: string public_official: type: object properties: checked: type: boolean description: >- False when office evidence or canonical identity could not be checked. is_public_official: type: boolean nullable: true description: >- Published office evidence exists. Null means unavailable, not a negative finding. status: type: string enum: - current - former - unknown nullable: true description: >- Publisher status across recorded terms. Former requires all terms to be explicitly ended; missing dates never infer status. total: type: number nullable: true description: >- Distinct recorded offices, independent of the bounded preview. offices: type: array items: type: object properties: office_id: type: string name: type: string country_iso3: type: string nullable: true description: Office jurisdiction, not citizenship. status: type: string enum: - current - ended - unknown start_date: type: string nullable: true end_date: type: string nullable: true evidence_date: type: string nullable: true sources: type: array items: type: object properties: source_key: type: string url: type: string nullable: true required: - source_key - url required: - office_id - name - country_iso3 - status - start_date - end_date - evidence_date - sources truncated: type: boolean required: - checked - is_public_official - status - total - offices - truncated required: - office_id - office_name - entity_id - name - holder_source_ref - status - start_date - end_date - date_precision - election_date - constituency - pep_until_date - sources - evidence_url - office_holder_uids nullable: true description: >- Up to two source-backed holder terms in the same as_of scope, current first. Null means unavailable; this preview never limits holders_url pagination or totals. required: - office_id - name - wikidata_qid - country_iso3 - subnational_area - scope - branch - topics - organization - after_office_years - inception_date - dissolution_date - holders_total - holders_current - datasets - first_seen_date - last_seen_date - detail_url - holders_url securitySchemes: ApiKeyAuth: type: http scheme: bearer bearerFormat: gdelt_sk_... description: 'GDELT Cloud API key. Send as `Authorization: Bearer gdelt_sk_...`.' ````