⚖️ DOJ Press Releases Scraper

🚀 Export every Department of Justice press release in seconds. Indictments, charges, settlements, and official statements from the US DOJ.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-25 · 📊 9 fields per record · 265,000+ releases · All DOJ components

The US Department of Justice publishes press releases from every component, US Attorney's Office, and headquarters division. This scraper pulls the full archive (over 265,000 releases) via the official justice.gov API and returns them as structured records ready for analysis or alerting.

Each record returns the title, release number, publication date, issuing component (e.g. Office of the Attorney General, US Attorney's Office, FBI), topic, teaser, and full body text with HTML stripped. Sort newest or oldest, filter by search term.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Journalists, compliance, law firms, researchers, OSINT analysts	Monitoring enforcement actions, tracking US Attorney activity, training legal LLMs, alert systems on new charges

📋 What the DOJ Press Releases Scraper does

• Pulls press releases from the official justice.gov public API
• Filters by search term across title
• Sorts newest or oldest first
• Returns full plain-text body with HTML stripped
• Paginates automatically to your requested maxItems

💡 Why it matters: New DOJ charges drop with no public notice. Catching them on publication day is the difference between writing the story and reading it.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description
searchTerm	string	Free-text search across title
maxItems	integer	How many records to return (free=10, paid up to 1M)
sortDirection	string	DESC newest first / ASC oldest first

Example A. Newest 50 DOJ press releases:

{ "maxItems": 50 }

Example B. Search for fentanyl-related releases, oldest first:

{ "searchTerm": "fentanyl", "sortDirection": "ASC", "maxItems": 200 }

⚠️ Good to Know: The DOJ API returns the same content as justice.gov. Older archived releases redirect to their archive URLs.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
📌 title	string	Release title
🔗 url	string	Official justice.gov URL
🆔 number	string	Press release number e.g. 25-0123
📅 publicationDate	string	Publication date YYYY-MM-DD
🏛️ components	string	Issuing DOJ component(s)
📑 topic	string	Topic tags
📝 teaser	string	Short summary
📄 body	string	Full body text, HTML stripped
🕒 scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp

Sample record:

{
  "title": "U.S. Attorney's Office Announces Indictment",
  "url": "https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/...",
  "publicationDate": "2026-05-22",
  "components": "U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania",
  "teaser": "PHILADELPHIA - Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche..."
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

• 🇺🇸 Official justice.gov API source
• 📦 Export CSV, Excel, JSON, XML
• 🔄 Schedule daily for new release alerts
• 🎯 Full body text included

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Result
Manual justice.gov browsing	Slow, no bulk export
RSS readers	Limited history
Building your own API client	Days of work
This Actor	One click structured export

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 credit
2. Open this Actor
3. Set filters
4. Click Start
5. Download CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

💼 Business use cases

Compliance: track DOJ enforcement actions in your sector. Legal research: build searchable archives of charges. Media monitoring: alert on press releases mentioning specific entities. LLM training: clean corpus of legal-press text.

🔌 Automating DOJ Press Releases Scraper

Connect to Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive, or any tool via the Apify API and webhooks.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research: longitudinal study of DOJ enforcement priorities. Personal: track topics that affect your community. Non-profit: monitor civil rights or environmental enforcement. Experimentation: train classifiers on legal text.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: 📅 How current? A: Same-day publication on justice.gov. Q: 📦 Export formats? A: CSV, Excel, JSON, XML. Q: 🔍 Full-text search? A: Title search via searchTerm. Q: 📅 How far back? A: Full DOJ archive. Q: 🏛️ Filter by US Attorney's Office? A: Use searchTerm with the office name. Q: 💰 Cost? A: Free=10 items, paid up to 1M. Q: ⏰ Scheduling? A: Yes, daily/hourly via Apify. Q: 🔒 Official? A: Yes, justice.gov API. Q: 📄 Body text? A: Plain text, HTML stripped. Q: 🆔 What's the number field? A: DOJ-assigned press release ID.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive, Google Sheets, BigQuery, S3, webhooks, REST API.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: Independent tool, not affiliated with the US Department of Justice. Only publicly available data is collected.