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OEB Regulatory Document Search (RDS)

The OEB's public regulatory document search, serving every filing, decision, order, licence, code amendment and piece of correspondence in the Board's case record. It runs on Micro Focus / OpenText Content Manager WebDrawer, and the OEB links directly to parameterised query URLs of the form /CMWebDrawer/Record?q=CaseNumber=EB-2021-0183&sortBy=recRegisteredOn-&pageSize=400 from its own website — the licensed-companies list alone links hundreds of them. Fetched anonymously on 2026-07-27, this surface also honours a `format=json` parameter and returns application/json — a Content Manager ServiceAPIModel payload with Results, TotalResults, Count, HasMoreItems and typed Fields including CaseNumber, SIDocumentType, Applicant, EnergyType, PrimaryApplicationType and DateIssued — while /CMWebDrawer/Record/{uri}/File/document returns the underlying PDF. IMPORTANT — the OEB publishes no API reference, no base-URI statement, no query-syntax documentation, no OpenAPI and no terms for this interface; the JSON output is default behaviour of the underlying WebDrawer product, not a product the OEB documents or supports. It is recorded here because it was verified live and anonymous, not because it is an offered API. No key, no signup, no rate-limit policy published.

OEB Regulatory Document Search (RDS) is one of 2 APIs that Ontario Energy Board publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.

Tagged areas include Regulatory, Document Search, Filings, Decisions, and Licences. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, an OpenAPI specification, authentication docs, and 1 JSON Schema.

This API exposes 5 operations across 5 paths, organized into 2 resource areas, and defines 7 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2026-07-27.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://www.rds.oeb.ca/CMWebDrawer.

5 operations 5 paths 7 schemas 5 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
2026-07-27
Base URL
https://www.rds.oeb.ca/CMWebDrawer
Resource Areas
2

Paths & Operations 5

Across 5 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 5 GET. They span 2 resource areas: Records, Search Metadata. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Records 3

Search and retrieve records (filings, decisions, orders, licences, correspondence) in the OEB case record.

GET
/Record
Search the OEB regulatory document record
searchRecords 5 params → 200
GET
/Record/{uri}
Retrieve a single record by Content Manager URI
getRecord 2 params → 500
GET
/Record/{uri}/File/document
Download the document filed under a record
downloadRecordDocument 1 param → 200404
Search Metadata 2

The machine-readable query vocabulary the RDS search form itself loads.

GET
/Help/WDSearchClauseDefJS
The full query vocabulary accepted by the q parameter
getSearchClauseDefinitions 1 param → 200
GET
/EnumItemJS
Labels for the search clause groups and special date values
getSearchClauseEnums 1 param → 200

Schemas 7

The contract defines 7 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are RecordSearchResponse (11 properties), RecordFields (7 properties), Record (6 properties), TrimDateTime (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

RecordSearchResponse
object
Content Manager ServiceAPIModel search payload, as observed on 2026-07-27.
11 properties 4 required
Record
object
One record — a filing, decision, order, licence or piece of correspondence.
6 properties 2 required
RecordFields
object
The OEB's own user-defined regulatory fields. Which fields appear depends on the record; the set below was returned by every observed search hit.
7 properties
TrimStringProperty
object
2 properties 1 required
TrimDateTime
object
Content Manager date. IsClear: true with DateTime 0001-01-01T00:00:00.0000000Z means the date is unset — treat it as null, not as the year 1.
5 properties
LocationRef
object
Reference to a Content Manager Location (a party — applicant, intervenor, the OEB itself).
4 properties
ResponseStatus
object
Empty object on success. On failure it carries the Content Manager exception — this is the error envelope, and it is NOT RFC 9457 problem+json.
4 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

ontario-energy-board-rds-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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