🏛️ FARA Filings Scraper

🚀 Export active Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) registrants and foreign principals in seconds. Pull registrant, registration number, date, and foreign principal country. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-26 · 📊 8+ fields per record · 600+ active registrants · United States DOJ

The FARA Foreign Agents Scraper queries the DOJ Active Foreign Principals listing in the FARA e-file system.

Coverage: United States DOJ.

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Target Audience / Use Cases

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Journalists	Investigate foreign influence
Compliance teams	Lobbying disclosure tracking
Researchers	Foreign-influence studies
Policy analysts	Cross-country comparisons
Lawyers	KYC and FCPA research

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📋 What this scraper does

• Active foreign-principals listing
• Filter by country substring
• Returns registrant, registration #, dates
• CSV, Excel, JSON, XML

💡 Why it matters: structured access to fara filings data unlocks workflows that manual UI browsing cannot reach.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	No	10	Max records.
country	string	No	Japan	Filter.

Example 1:

{"country":"Japan","maxItems":25}

Example 2:

{"maxItems":100}

⚠️ Good to Know: results reflect the live source at scrape time.

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📊 Output

Sample:

{
  "registrant": "Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP",
  "registrationNumber": "5439",
  "country": "Japan",
  "foreignPrincipal": "Government of Japan"
}

Each record exposes 8+ fields plus sourceUrl, scrapedAt, error.

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✨ Why choose this Actor

• 🟢 Real DOJ data
• 🟢 No API key
• 🟢 Country filter
• 🟢 Up to 1M paid

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Option	Free	Bulk export	Live
efile.fara.gov UI	Yes	No	Yes
Manual XLS download	Yes	Yes	Periodic
ParseForge FARA Scraper	Yes	Yes	Yes

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🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Open this actor
3. Set inputs, click Start
4. Download CSV / Excel / JSON / XML
5. Schedule or integrate

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💼 Business use cases

Lobbying compliance

Works out of the box.

Foreign-influence journalism

Works out of the box.

Policy research

Works out of the box.

KYC / FCPA support

Works out of the box.

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🔌 Automating FARA Foreign Agents Scraper

Integrates with Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Academic research

Ready to use.

Civil-society advocacy

Ready to use.

Historical foreign-influence studies

Ready to use.

Geo-political analysis

Ready to use.

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🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

ChatGPT · Claude · Perplexity · Microsoft Copilot

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Source? efile.fara.gov (DOJ).

Q: API key? No.

Q: Coverage? All currently active foreign principals.

Q: Output formats? JSON, CSV, Excel, XML.

Q: Free preview? 10 records.

Q: Bulk size? Up to 1,000,000 paid.

Q: Output formats? JSON, CSV, Excel, XML.

Q: How often is the data refreshed? On every run.

Q: Schedule support? Yes - schedule from the Apify console.

Q: Free preview? Yes - 10 records.

Q: Paid bulk size? Up to 1,000,000 records per run.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Webhooks, REST API, Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, Google Sheets, and more.

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection.

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