⚖️ eCFR US Federal Regulations Scraper

🚀 Search and export the US Code of Federal Regulations in seconds. Run full-text queries across every title, chapter, part, and section. No API key, no registration, no manual CSV wrangling.

The eCFR US Federal Regulations Scraper pulls structured records from the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, the official up-to-date version of US federal regulations published by the National Archives. The Actor supports two modes: full-text search across every regulation (returning matching sections with hierarchy, excerpts, scores, and effective dates) and titles browse (returning the 50 CFR titles with their latest amendment metadata).

eCFR is updated continuously as agencies publish final rules in the Federal Register, with currency stamps showing how recent the published text is for each title. Whether you are tracking regulatory references in privacy law, federal acquisition rules, food and drug regulations, or environmental policy, this Actor returns the official text in clean JSON without browser automation or login workflows.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Compliance and legal teams, policy analysts, RegTech vendors, government affairs, academics, journalists, GovTech vendors, ML researchers	Regulatory monitoring, compliance crosswalks, citation extraction, RegTech datasets, policy research, training data for legal AI

📋 What the eCFR US Federal Regulations Scraper does

Two modes in a single Actor:

• 🔍 Search mode. Full-text search across every CFR title with hit scoring, hierarchy, and excerpts.
• 📚 Titles mode. Browse the 50 CFR titles with their latest amendment dates and currency stamps.
• 🪜 Full hierarchy. Every search hit includes title, subtitle, chapter, subchapter, part, subpart, subject group, and section.
• 📅 Effective dates. startsOn and endsOn per hit, plus title-level latestAmendedOn and upToDateAsOf.
• 🏷️ Change types. Each hit lists the change types that produced it (effective, initial, amended, etc.).

In search mode, each record includes the type (section, part, appendix), heading hierarchy, structured URL, hit excerpt, score, structure index, reserved and removed flags, and effective dates. In titles mode, each record includes the title number, name, latest amendment date, latest issue date, currency stamp, and reserved flag.

💡 Why it matters: the CFR runs to over 200,000 pages. Searching for regulatory references manually is slow, and bulk PDF dumps go stale. eCFR is the daily authoritative version, but its API output requires custom parsing. This Actor flattens search results and title metadata into query-ready tables on every run.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: appendix, changeTypes, chapter, chapterNum, endsOn, excerpt, mode, part, partHeading, partNum, removed, reserved, score, scrapedAt, section, sectionHeading, sectionNum, startsOn, structureIndex, subchapter, subjectGroup, subpart, subpartNum, subtitle, subtitleNum, title, titleNum, type, url. All 29 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the eCFR US Federal Regulations Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick search or titles mode, enter a query if searching, and set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the National Archives, the Government Publishing Office, or any US government body. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available public-domain regulatory data is collected.

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