Federal Register Documents Scraper (US Rules)
Pricing
$2.00 / 1,000 document returneds
US Federal Register rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents from the official API: agency, docket, RIN, CFR part, comment deadline.
Which of the Federal Register's four document types to return. Default: all four.
[ "RULE", "PRORULE", "NOTICE", "PRESDOCU"]Look-back window in days on the publication date, ending today and inclusive at both ends (7 covers 8 calendar dates). Ignored when Date from / Date to are set. The archive starts on 3 January 1994, so 12000 reaches all of it.
Start of the publication-date window, YYYY-MM-DD (inclusive). Overrides Days back. Anything before 1994-01-03 is treated as 1994-01-03, the oldest document the API serves.
End of the publication-date window, YYYY-MM-DD (inclusive). Defaults to today.
Publishing agencies. A federalregister.gov slug (environmental-protection-agency), a short name (EPA, FDA, SEC, FCC) or part of an agency name (housing) all work, and a term that matches nothing stops the run instead of being ignored. A parent department also returns its sub-agencies: homeland-security-department includes Coast Guard and FEMA. Empty = every agency.
Full-text search over the document, run once per term and merged, so terms are ORed. Words inside one term are ANDed by the API: "air quality" returns documents containing both words. Empty = no keyword filter.
Agency docket numbers exactly as the Federal Register prints them, for example EPA-HQ-OW-2026-6965 or FRL-13502-01-R4. One search runs per docket and the results are merged. Empty = every docket.
Keep only documents the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs deemed significant under Executive Order 12866 - the economically or politically important rulemakings. About 1.6% of documents carry the flag: 286 of the 17,833 published in 2026 to 8 September.
Stop after this many documents. You are charged per document delivered, so this is also the cost cap. Newest publication date first, so a value below the window's volume drops the OLDEST documents in the window. Measured 8 September 2026: the Federal Register publishes about 100 documents per business day, so 7 days is about 460 documents and 30 days about 2,000.
Open comment periods only
commentsOpenOnly
Optional
Keep only documents whose public comment period has not closed yet (comment deadline on or after today, as a US Eastern calendar date - the calendar the Federal Register prints its deadlines on). Documents with no comment period at all are dropped.