Use the data

Endpoints

Base address: https://speeches.labs.trlibrary.com/api/v1/

File	What it holds
speeches.json	One row per speech: id, date, title, place id, kind, topics, word count, and whether it has full text or an archive record.
speeches/{id}.json	One speech in full: text by paragraph, sources (Theodore Roosevelt Center, Library of Congress, printed edition), place with coordinates, topics, people and places he named, and word statistics.
on-this-day/{MM-DD}.json	Speeches given on a calendar date, in every year.
places.json	Each place he spoke, with coordinates and the ids of its speeches.
themes.json	Topics, their descriptions, and counts by year.
phrases.json	Phrases found in many speeches.
words.json	Most-used words overall and by year, and words spoken per year.
people.json, mentioned-places.json	People and places he named, with the speeches that name them.
corpus.json	Every full text in one file (about 5 MB), for search tools.

Example

fetch("https://speeches.labs.trlibrary.com/api/v1/on-this-day/10-14.json")
  .then(r => r.json())
  .then(d => d.speeches.forEach(s => console.log(s.date, s.title)));

Terms

The speech texts are in the public domain. The links, dates, places and topics are free to use; please credit the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library and link back. Catalog descriptions written by the Theodore Roosevelt Center are not copied here; follow the links to read them on its site.