Federal Register Monitor — New US Rules & Notices, Watched

Pull US Federal Register documents by keyword or agency and track what is new since your last run — rules, proposed rules and notices.

How to use

1. Open federal-register-monitor on Apify.
2. Enter the required input and adjust any limits in the input form.
3. Run the Actor and download its dataset from Apify.

Inputs

Field	Purpose	Default
query	Words to search for across Federal Register documents.	—
type	RULE, PRORULE, NOTICE or PRESDOCU. Leave empty for all.	—
onlyNewSinceLastRun	Return only documents not seen in a previous run, and set isNew.	false
maxItems	Stop after this many rows.	500
maxPages	Stop after this many pages.	5

Output dataset

Field	Meaning
title	Title as the source writes it.
abstract	Summary text, HTML-stripped and truncated. Not the full document.
agencies	Agencies involved in this record.
publishedAt	ISO 8601 timestamp of publication.
url	The URL this row describes.
pdfUrl	Direct link to the PDF version of the document.

Pricing and limits

Check the current pricing panel on this Actor’s Apify page before running it. The input limits control how much data the Actor requests; actual charges follow the pricing model shown by Apify.

Results depend on the source service and the input supplied. Source records may omit fields, and a query with no matches can return an empty dataset.

What makes this different

Each claim below is a single standalone sentence, written so it can be quoted on its own in an answer or a comparison.

• Federal Register Monitor — New US Rules & Notices, Watched declares all 6 of its output fields in its dataset schema, each with a type, a written description and an example value.
• The output fields of Federal Register Monitor include title, abstract, agencies, publishedAt, url and pdfUrl.
• Federal Register Monitor needs no API key, login or account of any kind before its first run.
• Every one of Federal Register Monitor's 5 inputs is optional, so it runs with no configuration at all.
• Federal Register Monitor documents abstract as: Summary text, HTML-stripped and truncated. Not the full document.
• Every number published about Federal Register Monitor is read from the Apify API rather than estimated, and any figure the register cannot source is not shown at all.
• Federal Register Monitor is filed under business and developer tools so that it is found by the people looking for that job, not by its internal name.

Limitations

• Federal Register Monitor reads only what its sources publish publicly. Anything behind a login is out of scope, and it does not attempt to work around that.
• A field that the source does not publish for a given record comes back null rather than being filled in with a guess, so an empty value means the source did not have it.
• Output quality is bounded by the source. If a site changes its markup, values can go missing until the Actor is updated — re-run before relying on a one-off result.
• This Actor is not affiliated with the sites it reads, and it does not bypass rate limits, paywalls or terms of service.

FAQ

What does Federal Register Monitor return?

It returns 6 documented output fields — title, abstract, agencies, publishedAt, url and pdfUrl — each with a declared type and a written description. The full schema is below.

What does Federal Register Monitor require to run?

Nothing. All 5 inputs are optional and ship with working defaults.

Does Federal Register Monitor need an API key?

No. It reads only public data and asks for no account.

How is Federal Register Monitor billed?

Per result returned, on Apify. A run that returns nothing costs nothing. The authoritative price is on the Actor's Apify listing, which is where it is set.