Federal Register Scraper — US Rules, Notices & Deadlines

Every document the US government publishes in the Federal Register since 1994, searchable by keyword, agency, docket, RIN or date — proposed rules, final rules, notices and presidential documents — with the comment deadline and days remaining already worked out.

No API key. No account. Federal Register documents are US Government works in the public domain, read through the Office of the Federal Register's own published API.

Why this one

Most Federal Register tools hand you a title and a link. The value is in the fields you need to act: which docket a rule belongs to, which RIN it carries across its lifecycle, which CFR parts it touches, and how many days you have left to comment. This actor resolves all of them per document.

Example output record

{
  "documentNumber": "2026-16912",
  "title": "Regulation Crypto Assets",
  "type": "Proposed Rule",
  "action": "Notice of proposed rulemaking.",
  "publicationDate": "2026-08-21",
  "commentsCloseOn": "2026-10-20",
  "commentDaysRemaining": 47,
  "commentWindowOpen": true,
  "significant": true,
  "agencyNames": ["Securities and Exchange Commission"],
  "agencySlugs": ["securities-and-exchange-commission"],
  "docketIds": ["Release Nos. 33-11434"],
  "regulationIdNumbers": ["3235-AN38"],
  "cfrReferences": ["17 CFR 200", "17 CFR 201"],
  "topics": ["Securities"],
  "startPage": 54120,
  "endPage": 54188,
  "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/21/2026-16912/regulation-crypto-assets",
  "pdfUrl": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-08-21/pdf/2026-16912.pdf"
}

Input options

Option	Default	What it does
term	—	Full-text search across titles, abstracts and document text
agencies	—	Agency names, slugs or federalregister.gov agency URLs — all three forms work
documentTypes	all	RULE, PRORULE, NOTICE, PRESDOCU
publishedFrom / publishedTo	—	Publication date range, YYYY-MM-DD
commentsOpenOnly	false	Keep only documents you can still comment on
significantOnly	false	Only significant regulatory actions under EO 12866
docketId	—	Follow one rulemaking docket, e.g. EPA-HQ-OW-2026-0123
order	newest	newest, oldest or relevance
maxItems	500	Hard cap per run

Use cases

• Comment-deadline watch. Set commentsOpenOnly with your keywords and schedule it daily: every rule you can still influence, sorted by days left. Search terms: federal register api, proposed rule alerts.
• Docket tracking. Give it a docketId or RIN and follow one rulemaking from proposal to final rule. Search terms: regulations docket tracker.
• Agency monitoring for compliance teams. Filter by agencies and significantOnly to see what your regulator is actually doing this quarter. Search terms: SEC rules scraper, EPA regulations feed.

Honest limits

• The API caps any single query at 10,000 documents, no matter how you page. Narrow the date range to go deeper; the log tells you when a query is capped rather than quietly truncating.
• significant is null on documents where the agency did not set the flag. Absent is not the same as false.
• Full document text is not copied into the dataset — every row carries url, pdfUrl and fullTextXmlUrl so you can fetch the text you need.
• Search is the API's own full-text index; it is not a regex over documents.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.004 per document returned. A 500-document sweep is $2. Runs that match nothing cost nothing beyond the platform's start fee.

Changelog

• 0.1 — first release: keyword, agency, type, docket, significance and date filters; comment-deadline derivation; agencies, RINs, CFR references and dockets resolved per document.