Federal Register Search - Rules, Notices & Presidential Docs
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Federal Register Search - Rules, Notices & Presidential Docs
Search US Federal Register documents (final rules, proposed rules, notices, presidential documents) by keyword, agency, type and date from the official federalregister.gov API. Returns abstract, effective and comment-close dates, CFR references and links. No API key.
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Federal Register Search - Rules, Notices & Presidential Documents
Search US Federal Register documents - final rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents - by keyword, agency, document type and publication date. Data comes straight from the official federalregister.gov API (OFR/GPO). No scraping, no API key, no personal data.
What you get (one row per document)
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
documentNumber | Federal Register document number, e.g. 2026-20849 |
title, type | Title and type (Rule, Proposed Rule, Notice, Presidential Document) |
agencies[] | name and slug of each issuing agency |
publicationDate | Date published in the Federal Register |
abstract | First 500 characters of the abstract (may be empty) |
effectiveOn, commentsCloseOn | Effective date and public-comment deadline when the document has them, otherwise null |
cfrReferences[] | Affected CFR parts, e.g. 40 CFR 112 |
htmlUrl, pdfUrl | Links to the document on federalregister.gov / the official PDF on govinfo.gov |
totalMatches | How many documents matched your filters (the API reports at most 10,000) |
dataSource, dataAsOf, disclaimer | Source, time of the query (UTC) and the legal-status note |
Results are sorted newest first. Documents scheduled for publication in the next few days can appear
with a future publicationDate.
Input
searchTerms- keywords; wrap in double quotes for an exact phrase.agencies- agency slugs (the last part offederalregister.gov/agencies/<slug>).documentTypes- any ofRULE,PRORULE,NOTICE,PRESDOCU; empty = all.publishedAfter/publishedBefore-YYYY-MM-DD, both inclusive.maxResults- 1 to 1000 (default 25). You are charged per document returned.
With no input the Actor returns the 25 newest documents.
Behaviour you can rely on
- Unknown document types, malformed slugs or dates and out-of-range
maxResultsstop the run with a clear error; nothing is silently corrected. - A filter combination with no match returns one
found: falserow (not charged). - If the Federal Register cannot be reached, the run fails - it never reports "no results". If a later
page fails, the rows already fetched carry
sectionErrors.pagination. - Your spending limit is respected: no more documents are returned than your budget allows.
Source and legal note
Data: https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents.json. Federal Register content is a work of
the US Government. FederalRegister.gov states: "It is not an official legal edition of the Federal
Register ... those relying on it for legal research should verify their results against an official
edition of the Federal Register." This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Office of the
Federal Register, GPO or NARA, and is not legal advice.
