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Check out our section on Getting Started or jump straight to testing out some of the API methods below.

API Spotlight

lenders/<id>/teams

Returns teams that a particular lender is a member of.

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teams/<ids>

Get detailed information about a lending team or a list of teams.

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loans/newest

This method returns all of the loans raising funds right now at Kiva, newest first.

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Data Snapshots

Need to work with a lot of our data all at once? Every night we archive public data from the Kiva API into easily downloadable snapshots. Grab them in your favorite format here:

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API Status

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Build 26af7cbf864a954fc8c75af58f22dd8682bcd460 was released 13 minutes ago.

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