Global Regulatory & Government Document Monitor

Monitor public regulatory and government web pages worldwide. The Actor converts each page into clean Markdown and structured JSON, stores a stable content hash, and labels later checks as new, changed, or unchanged.

It is designed for compliance teams, regulatory intelligence, legal and financial research, RAG pipelines, knowledge bases, and autonomous AI agents. No paid language model is used. You are charged only when a page is successfully downloaded, processed, and written to the dataset.

Independent data extraction tool. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any government authority.

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This example monitors official US, UK, and EU regulatory pages:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases" },
    { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/implementing-the-uks-ai-regulatory-principles-initial-guidance-for-regulators" },
    { "url": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/regulatory-framework-ai" }
  ],
  "enableChangeDetection": true,
  "monitorId": "global-ai-regulation",
  "respectRobotsTxt": true,
  "includeLinks": true,
  "maxLinks": 100
}

Run the same input again to receive an unchanged result. When the readable content changes, the result is labeled changed and includes the previous hash and timestamps. Schedule the Actor in Apify and connect a webhook or integration to build a recurring regulatory alert workflow.

Ready-to-run public examples:

• SEC regulatory press releases
• SEC, CFTC, and FINRA regulatory news
• EU AI Act updates
• Global AI regulation across the US, UK, EU, and China

What you get

• Change status: new, changed, unchanged, or not-tracked
• Stable current and previous SHA-256 content hashes
• First-seen, previous-fetch, last-changed, and current-fetch timestamps
• Clean Markdown and plain text
• Title, description, language, publication date, and effective date
• Jurisdiction, source or issuing organization, document type, and identifiers
• Attachment links, heading outline, deduplicated links, and JSON-LD
• Canonical and final redirected URLs, HTTP status, and detected encoding
• Explicit error records; failed pages do not trigger a success-event charge

Supported use cases

• Monitor regulator newsrooms, consultation pages, guidance, rules, and policy documents
• Detect changes across SEC, GOV.UK, EU institutions, and other public authorities
• Feed verified source content into compliance copilots, RAG, and AI agents
• Track Chinese government and regulator pages with issuing-body, policy-number, attachment, encoding, and ICP extraction
• Build scheduled research or market-intelligence pipelines without an LLM dependency

Change detection

Change detection is enabled by default. Only a page hash, canonical URL, and timestamps are stored in a named key-value store inside the running user's Apify account; page content is not duplicated in monitoring state.

Use monitorId to isolate independent monitoring jobs that happen to check the same URL. For example, global-ai-regulation and weekly-compliance-review maintain separate histories.

Input reference

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://example.gov/regulation" }],
  "enableChangeDetection": true,
  "monitorId": "default",
  "respectRobotsTxt": true,
  "includeLinks": true,
  "maxLinks": 200,
  "maxMarkdownChars": 120000,
  "maxContentBytes": 3000000,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 20
}

Up to 20 unique public HTTP(S) URLs can be processed per run.

Output example

{
  "status": "ok",
  "changeStatus": "changed",
  "jurisdiction": "US",
  "url": "https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases",
  "title": "Press Releases",
  "sourceOrganization": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-03T16:30:00Z",
  "documentIdentifiers": ["Release No. 2026-85"],
  "previousContentHash": "sha256:...",
  "contentHash": "sha256:...",
  "markdown": "# Press Releases\n\n..."
}

Pricing

The Store price is $0.005 per successfully processed page ($5 per 1,000 successful page checks). Failed or blocked pages do not trigger the page-extracted event. Platform usage is included in the event price.

Automation

Run from the Apify Console, REST API, schedules, webhooks, or AI agents through Apify integrations. A practical workflow is:

1. Save a task containing the target regulatory pages.
2. Schedule it daily or weekly.
3. Filter dataset items where changeStatus is new or changed.
4. Send those items to email, Slack, a database, or a downstream AI workflow.

Safety and responsible use

• Only public HTTP(S) pages are accepted.
• Localhost, private networks, metadata endpoints, and URL credentials are blocked.
• Redirect targets are revalidated; download size, URL count, redirects, and request duration are limited.
• robots.txt is respected by default.
• The Actor does not bypass logins, paywalls, CAPTCHAs, or access controls.
• Users are responsible for verifying access rights and complying with applicable website terms, privacy, copyright, data-protection, and data-export rules.

Limitations

This version extracts server-rendered HTML. Pages whose meaningful content requires complex JavaScript may return an insufficient-content error. PDFs and other binary documents are linked as attachments but are not parsed in this version.

中文说明

本 Actor 面向全球公开监管与政府网页，可定时提取 Markdown/JSON，并用内容哈希判断页面是首次出现、发生变化还是保持不变。中国网页能力作为特色保留，包括中文编码、发文机构、政策文号、附件和 ICP 备案号识别。默认遵守 robots.txt，不绕过登录、验证码或访问控制。