# Introduction

URL: https://igregulator.io/docs/
Markdown: https://igregulator.io/docs.md

> iGregulator API docs: verify gambling licences by domain, operator or licence number against regulator registers. Free REST API and MCP; every status sourced.

> **Legal notice**
>
> Information provided by iGregulator is sourced from public regulator
> records and is intended for **informational purposes only**. License
> verification results do not constitute legal advice. Customers are
> responsible for their own compliance, KYB, and AML decisions. Always
> confirm critical licensing decisions directly with the issuing
> regulator. Full terms at [/terms](https://igregulator.io/terms/).

iGregulator is a REST API for verifying **iGaming operator licences**
against the public registers of seven regulators, each with a short API
code — `UKGC` (UK Gambling Commission), `MGA` (Malta Gaming Authority),
`CW` (Curaçao Gaming Authority, post-LOK), `KH` (Kahnawake Gaming
Commission), `AN` (Anjouan Gaming Authority), `TGC` (Tobique Gaming
Commission), and `IOM` (Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission).
Every register is read daily; each status shows when we last read it.
Live per-register freshness:
[igregulator.io/status](https://igregulator.io/status/) (Tobique's site
currently blocks most automated reads).

Kahnawake, Tobique and the Isle of Man publish **no licence number**. For
those three, the `license_number` we return (`KH/IG/…`, `KH/CSPA/…`,
`TGC/B2C/…`, `IOM/OGRA/…`) is an iGregulator reference that identifies the
record in our API — not a number the regulator issued, and not something to
quote to the regulator.

> **Building with AI?** → [/docs/for-ai-agents](https://igregulator.io/docs/for-ai-agents/)
> covers MCP, structured errors, `_meta` provenance, and
> machine-readable resources (llms.txt, OpenAPI) for LLM integrations.

## What you can do with it

- **Verify a domain** — hit `GET /v1/check?domain=X` and get a `verdict`
  (`licensed`, `licensed_provisional`, or why not), a sentence to quote, and the
  operator + licence behind it in one round-trip. Dual-licensed brands come
  back with every (operator, jurisdiction) pair; where the regulator runs a
  per-domain verification page (Curaçao, Tobique), `verification_url` links
  straight to the primary source.
- **Look up an operator** — search by name, registered name or slug via
  `GET /v1/operators/search?q=…` and drill into licences, domain portfolios,
  and regulatory actions.
- **Pull a whole jurisdiction** — paginate
  `GET /v1/jurisdictions/:code/operators` for every operator that has held a
  licence in that jurisdiction, whatever its status — the list has no status
  field, so check each operator's licence `status` via
  `GET /v1/operators/:slug`; only `active` is licensed now.
- **Track regulatory actions** — enforcement decisions (fines, warnings,
  licence revocations) surface via
  `GET /v1/operators/:slug/regulatory-actions`.

## Data coverage (as of 2026-10-01)

| Jurisdiction | Licences (active) | Source | Cadence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `UKGC` (UK Gambling Commission) | 3,739 (2,796) | Public register ZIP | Daily 03:00 UTC |
| `MGA` (Malta Gaming Authority) | 322 (313) | Playwright-scraped SPA | Daily 03:15 UTC |
| `CW` (Curaçao Gaming Authority) | 703 (547) | OGL PDF + `/token` registry | Daily 03:30 UTC |
| `KH` (Kahnawake Gaming Commission) | 65 (57) | Interactive Gaming + CSPA HTML | Daily 03:45 UTC |
| `AN` (Anjouan Gaming Authority) | 1,586 (1,539) | Embedded JSON on register page | Daily 04:00 UTC |
| `TGC` (Tobique Gaming Commission) | 196 (186) | Static HTML table (via CF Worker proxy) | Daily 04:15 UTC |
| `IOM` (Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission) | 53 (53) | Register HTML page (+ its .xlsx as a cross-check) | Daily 04:25 UTC |

Across those registers: **6,664 licence records (5,491 of them `active`),
5,702 operators, and 10,421 domains currently linked to a licence** — 4,619 of
them backed by the regulator's own per-domain verification page (Curaçao
certificate / Tobique seal), re-read on a rolling schedule (every
Tobique seal nightly, each Curaçao certificate every 2–3 days) and
surfaced as
`verification_url` on [`/v1/check`](https://igregulator.io/docs/confidence/). These figures are
[`/v1/stats`](https://api.igregulator.io/v1/stats) on 2026-10-01 — it serves the
current counts, each with its definition, and the per-jurisdiction rows above.
Live freshness per register at
[`/v1/health/coverage`](https://api.igregulator.io/v1/health/coverage);
how coverage is measured at
[coverage methodology](https://igregulator.io/docs/coverage-methodology/). Which regulator page
sets each status, the evidence we keep and how we correct mistakes: our
[methodology](https://igregulator.io/methodology/).

## Who it's for

Four buyer profiles drive the product today:

- **Affiliate sites** — verify that a brand they're promoting is still
  licensed before writing reviews and paying out referral payments.
- **Compliance + AML teams** — weekly sweeps of their operator
  counterparties for status changes and enforcement actions.
- **Payment providers** — merchant onboarding checks + ongoing KYB.
- **Investment intelligence** — correlate licence churn, enforcement fines,
  and domain-expiry signals into early-warning scores.

## Start here

1. [Getting started](https://igregulator.io/docs/getting-started/) — first curl call in under a minute.
2. [Authentication](https://igregulator.io/docs/authentication/) — when you graduate from the public 10 req/hr limit.
3. [Confidence scoring](https://igregulator.io/docs/confidence/) — how the `/v1/check` endpoint picks between `high`, `medium`, and `low`.
4. [API playground](https://igregulator.io/docs/playground/) — try any endpoint interactively.
5. [Full endpoint reference](https://igregulator.io/docs/api/) — detailed schemas for every route.