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Account (me)

Get information about your API key: plan, entitlements, current rate-limit state, and your effective historical search window. A good first authenticated call to confirm your key works (it requires no other parameters).

Response

{
  "plan": "developer",
  "contacts_access": false,
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "rate_limit_remaining": 980,
  "rate_limit": 1000,
  "historical_window_days": null,
  "historical_earliest_allowed": null,
  "docs_url": "https://govconapi.com/api-guide"
}
  • plan / contacts_access: your tier and whether Pro Contacts/Companies/Vendor-Risk features are enabled.
  • rate_limit / rate_limit_remaining: your hourly ceiling and what's left this window (also returned as X-RateLimit-Limit / X-RateLimit-Remaining headers on every response).
  • historical_window_days / historical_earliest_allowed: the search window on /opportunities/search and /awards/search. 90 and a date on the free trial; null on paid plans, which have no window.

Example

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  "https://govconapi.com/api/v1/me"

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