Open Scout API

Open, versioned, machine-readable Scouting America reference data. v0.26.1 · built 2026-07-22T21:34:56+00:00

Unofficial community project. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Scouting America. Data licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Datasets

229 current councils across 14 Council Service Territories; 448 current camps; 140 current merit badges; 161 current requirement sets; 21 ranks; 52 awards; 238 OA lodges.

Endpoints

• v1/meta.json — version, counts, license
• v1/current/councils.json — flat current council list
• v1/current/territories.json
• v1/current/merit-badges.json — flat current merit badge list
• v1/councils/index.json — all councils (incl. historical)
• v1/councils/<id>.json — one council with its lifecycle events
• v1/territories/index.json · v1/territories/<id>.json
• v1/merit-badges/index.json · v1/merit-badges/<id>.json
• v1/requirement-sets/index.json · v1/requirement-sets/<id>.json — requirement trees
• v1/camps/index.json · v1/camps/<id>.json — resident/HA/day/short-term camps
• v1/current/camps.json — flat current camp list
• v1/ranks/index.json · v1/ranks/<id>.json — Scouts BSA ranks
• v1/awards/index.json · v1/awards/<id>.json — awards & recognitions (knots, honors, training)
• v1/oa-lodges/index.json · v1/oa-lodges/<id>.json — Order of the Arrow lodges (by council)
• schema/v1/ — JSON Schemas

Merit-badge and rank requirement text is © Scouting America, reproduced with attribution for non-commercial use and not covered by the dataset license (see NOTICE).

Source & issues: github.com/sethmay/open-scout-api