Federal Register Monitor

Monitor the Federal Register — the daily journal of the US government — via the official federalregister.gov API. No key, no browser, pure official data.

New rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents publish every business day. This actor turns them into a structured feed — and, critically, tracks public comment deadlines so your team never misses its window to respond.

Modes

Mode	What it returns
feed	Newest documents — filterable by agency, doc type, date range, significance
deadlines	Proposed rules whose comment window closes within N days (closingWithinDays)
agency	Everything published by one agency (e.g. environmental-protection-agency)
search	Keyword monitor across titles/abstracts (e.g. artificial intelligence, airworthiness)
dockets	Documents linked to Regulations.gov comment dockets — with live comment counts

Example inputs

Comment deadlines closing in the next 14 days:

{"mode": "deadlines", "closingWithinDays": 14}

Daily digest of new EPA actions (run on a schedule):

{"mode": "agency", "agency": "environmental-protection-agency", "publishedAfter": "2026-09-28"}

Everything mentioning a topic this month:

{"mode": "search", "query": "artificial intelligence", "publishedAfter": "2026-09-01"}

Full daily feed, only economically significant rules:

{"mode": "feed", "significantOnly": true, "publishedAfter": "2026-09-28"}

Why deadlines matter

When an agency publishes a proposed rule, it opens a public comment window (usually 30–90 days). Comments are the only formal channel to influence the final rule — and the deadline is hard. deadlines mode + daysUntilCommentClose gives compliance teams a watchlist they can act on.

Output fields

documentNumber, title, docType (Rule / Proposed Rule / Notice / Presidential Document), agencies, publicationDate, effectiveOn, commentsCloseOn, daysUntilCommentClose, significant (EO-12866 reviewed), abstract, docketIds, regulationsGovDocumentId + regulationsGovUrl + regulationsGovCommentsCount, cfrReferences, htmlUrl, pdfUrl.

Agency slug cheat sheet

Slug	Agency
environmental-protection-agency	EPA
food-and-drug-administration	FDA
federal-aviation-administration	FAA
securities-and-exchange-commission	SEC
federal-communications-commission	FCC
centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services	CMS
defense-department	DoD
federal-reserve-system	Federal Reserve
transportation-department	DOT
energy-department	DOE

The full list: federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies (each entry's slug field works directly).

Monitoring pattern

Schedule the actor daily (weekdays) with publishedAfter = yesterday, or run deadlines weekly for a rolling comment-window watch. Ideal for regulatory affairs, trade associations, law firms, GovCon teams, journalists.

Notes & limitations

• Data is the official Federal Register API — complete since 1994.
• deadlines scans recent proposed rules and filters client-side; very old rules with long windows are included when their close date is in range.
• Some proposed rules have no comment deadline (e.g. corrections) — they're excluded from deadlines.
• significant reflects the API's EO-12866 flag and is only populated on some documents.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: ~$1 per 1,000 documents returned. No per-run fee.

Example output

{
  "recordType": "docket",
  "documentNumber": "C1-2026-17108",
  "title": "Withdrawal of International Airport Designation of Chalk Seaplane Base",
  "docType": "Proposed Rule",
  "citation": "91 FR 61346",
  "publicationDate": "2026-09-29",
  "signingDate": null,
  "effectiveOn": null,
  "commentsCloseOn": null,
  "daysUntilCommentClose": null,
  "agencies": [
    "Homeland Security Department",
    "U.S. Customs and Border Protection"
  ],
  "significant": false,
  "abstract": "",
  "docketIds": [
    "Docket No. USCBP-2026-0892"
  ]
}

FAQ

Does Federal Register Monitor need a login or API key? No — every row comes from public endpoints. Provide a proxy only if your network is heavily rate-limited.

How do I monitor on a schedule? Attach the actor to an Apify Schedule (daily/weekly) and use the watch/monitor mode if present — each run emits a fresh, diff-able dataset.

What does each row contain? See the output fields table above; every row carries a scrapedAt timestamp so datasets can be deduped across runs.

Is it legal to scrape this data? The actor only accesses publicly available data — the same pages/APIs a browser sees. Scraping public data for research, monitoring, and analysis is common practice, but platform Terms of Service and the rules in your jurisdiction still apply to how you use it. Consult legal counsel for your specific case.

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