Federal Register Scraper & Regulation Monitor: Rules, Proposed Rules, Notices

Get US Federal Register documents as clean JSON, CSV or Excel: final rules, proposed rules, notices, executive orders and other presidential documents. Filter by keyword, agency, document type, CFR title and part, docket ID, RIN, significant rules, and open comment periods. Each document includes the agencies, action, abstract, publication date, effective date and comment deadline, docket IDs, RINs, CFR references, citation, and links to the HTML, PDF, full text and Regulations.gov comment page. Turn on monitor mode to get only new or changed documents.

Data comes from the official FederalRegister.gov API published by the Office of the Federal Register. No API key, no login.

For AI agents (MCP / API) quick reference

• Use when: you need new or historical US federal regulations, proposed rules open for comment, agency notices, or executive orders, filtered by topic, agency, CFR part or docket.
• Don't use for: state regulations, court rulings, or the full current text of the CFR.
• Minimal input: {"keywords": ["artificial intelligence"], "documentTypes": ["RULE", "PRORULE"], "publishedLastDays": 30, "maxItems": 20}. All fields are optional.
• Output: one dataset item per document: documentNumber, title, type, action, abstract, agencies, publicationDate, effectiveDate, commentsCloseDate, docketIds, regulationIdNumbers, cfrReferences, citation, significant, url, pdfUrl, fullTextUrl, commentUrl.
• Price: $0.001 per run + $0.0015 per document. 20 documents cost about $0.03. Pay per event only, limited permissions, so agentic payments (x402, Skyfire, Apify AGI token) work.
• MCP: add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=kempt_horizon_yzk/federal-register-documents to your MCP client.

What can this Federal Register scraper do?

• ✅ Every document type: final rules, proposed rules, notices, presidential documents, from 1994 to today
• ✅ Filters: keywords (any match), agencies, types, publication dates, CFR title/part, docket ID, RIN, significant (EO 12866) only, open for comment only
• ✅ Deadlines: effective dates and comment close dates as clean fields, plus the official dates text
• ✅ Monitor mode: remembers documents in a key-value store and returns only new ones or ones whose title, dates, comment deadline or action changed
• ✅ Pay only for results: unchanged documents are never charged
• ✅ Retries with exponential backoff

Who uses it?

Regulatory affairs and compliance teams, law firms and lobbyists, trade associations, ESG, healthcare, fintech and energy companies tracking rulemakings, policy newsletters, and AI agents that need to know what changed in federal rules.

How much does it cost?

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.001
Federal Register document	$0.0015

A daily monitor that finds 20 new documents for your agencies costs about $0.03 a day. 1,000 documents cost $1.50.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free. The example input (AI-related rules and proposed rules from the last 30 days) returns results right away.
2. Add agencies, a CFR part, or tick Only open for comment.
3. Click Start and download results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them with the API.
4. For alerts, tick Only new or changed since last run, give the monitor a name, and add a daily Schedule.

Input example

{
  "agencies": ["food-and-drug-administration"],
  "documentTypes": ["RULE", "PRORULE"],
  "cfrTitle": 21,
  "openForCommentOnly": true,
  "maxItems": 50,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "stateKey": "fda-rules"
}

Output example

{
  "documentNumber": "2026-20888",
  "title": "Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets",
  "type": "Proposed Rule",
  "subtype": null,
  "action": "Advanced notice of proposed rulemaking.",
  "abstract": "The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (\"Commission\" or \"CFTC\") is issuing an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking regarding section 2(c)(2)(D) of the Commodity Exchange Act (\"CEA\" or \"Act\") to pr...",
  "agencies": [
    "Commodity Futures Trading Commission"
  ],
  "agencySlugs": [
    "commodity-futures-trading-commission"
  ],
  "publicationDate": "2026-10-13",
  "effectiveDate": null,
  "commentsCloseDate": "2026-12-14",
  "datesText": "Comments must be received on or before December 14, 2026.",
  "docketIds": [],
  "regulationIdNumbers": [
    "3038-AF80"
  ],
  "cfrReferences": [
    {
      "title": 17,
      "part": "1",
      "chapter": null
    },
    {
      "title": 17,
      "part": "38",
      "chapter": null
    },
    {
      "title": 17,
      "part": "39",
      "chapter": null
    }
  ],
  "topics": [],
  "citation": "91 FR 64811",
  "significant": null,
  "executiveOrderNumber": null,
  "president": "Donald Trump",
  "pageLength": 30,
  "correctionOf": null,
  "matchExcerpt": "DCMs contained in section 5(d) (“DCM Core Principles”). 250 245 CEA 3(a)-(b), 7 U.S.C. 5(a)-(b). 246 Indeed, Chairman Selig recently acknowledged this dynamic when he noted that “[a]ccess to computing...",
  "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/13/2026-20888/regulation-crypto-asset-transactions-and-regulation-crypto-asset-markets",
  "pdfUrl": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-10-13/pdf/2026-20888.pdf",
  "fullTextUrl": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2026/10/13/2026-20888.txt",
  "regulationsGovUrl": "http://www.regulations.gov/commenton/CFTC-2026-2179-0001",
  "commentUrl": "http://www.regulations.gov/commenton/CFTC-2026-2179-0001",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-15T13:15:06.516Z"
}

FAQ

Do I need an API key? No. The FederalRegister.gov API is free and public.

How fresh is the data? Live. New documents appear each business morning when the Federal Register is published.

Is this legal? The Federal Register is official US government public information. The Actor uses only the public API, which robots.txt allows.

Related Actors: SEC EDGAR Filings, USAspending.gov Federal Awards, Grants.gov Scraper.

Built and maintained by Kempt Horizon Data. Found a bug or need a field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab and we usually reply within a day.