Federal Register Scraper

The federal register scraper that turns the official Federal Register API into clean, structured US regulations data — rules, proposed rules, notices, and presidential documents — exported ready for your stack.

Built for regulatory-affairs, compliance, legal, and lobbying / government-affairs teams who need to track US regulations data without manually refreshing federalregister.gov every morning. Search by term, document type, agency, and publication window, and get back structured rows with comment deadlines, effective dates, and direct document links.

Data comes from the official Federal Register API — no API key required. This federal register scraper gives you a clean export of exactly the fields you need, instead of copy-pasting from the website.

What you get

Field	Description
documentNumber	Official Federal Register document number
title	Document title
type	Document type (Rule, Proposed Rule, Notice, Presidential Document)
agencies	Publishing agencies, "; "-joined into one string
publicationDate	Date the document was published in the Federal Register
effectiveOn	Effective date, where applicable
commentsCloseOn	Comment period close date, where applicable
abstract	Document abstract / summary text
docketIds	Associated docket IDs (string)
htmlUrl	Link to the HTML version on federalregister.gov
pdfUrl	Link to the official PDF

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
term	string	"artificial intelligence"	Free-text search term
documentTypes	array	[]	Filter by type: rules, proposed rules, notices, presidential docs (empty = all)
agencySlug	string	(optional)	Filter to a single agency by its slug
publishedFrom	string (YYYY-MM-DD)	(optional)	Earliest publication date
publishedTo	string (YYYY-MM-DD)	(optional)	Latest publication date
maxItems	integer	500	Maximum number of documents to return

Example input

{
  "term": "artificial intelligence",
  "documentTypes": ["Rule", "Proposed Rule"],
  "agencySlug": "federal-trade-commission",
  "publishedFrom": "2025-01-01",
  "publishedTo": "2025-06-01",
  "maxItems": 500
}

Example run output

{
  "documentNumber": "2025-08431",
  "title": "Commercial Surveillance and Data Security Rulemaking on Artificial Intelligence",
  "type": "Proposed Rule",
  "agencies": "Federal Trade Commission; Department of Commerce",
  "publicationDate": "2025-05-12",
  "effectiveOn": null,
  "commentsCloseOn": "2025-07-11",
  "abstract": "The Commission proposes rules to address unfair or deceptive practices related to the use of automated decision-making and artificial intelligence systems.",
  "docketIds": "FTC-2025-0034",
  "htmlUrl": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/12/2025-08431/commercial-surveillance-and-data-security-rulemaking",
  "pdfUrl": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-05-12/pdf/2025-08431.pdf"
}

Use cases

• Regulatory-affairs teams — monitor new rules and proposed rules in your sector and never miss an effective date.
• Compliance & legal teams — pull structured US regulations data with comment deadlines straight into your tracking systems.
• Lobbying / government-affairs teams — watch agency activity by term and agency, and catch comment windows while they're open.
• Analysts & researchers — build a Federal Register dataset for trend analysis across agencies and document types.

Why this beats checking federalregister.gov by hand

This federal register scraper hits the official Federal Register API with no API key, then hands you a clean, structured export — commentsCloseOn, effectiveOn, docketIds, and both HTML and PDF links in every row. Instead of scanning the site daily and copying fields, you get a schedulable, queryable feed of US regulations data ready for a spreadsheet, database, or alert pipeline.

Pricing

Pay per result — you are billed only for the Federal Register documents returned to your dataset.

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