📜 Federal Register Scraper - Notices, Rules & Regulations

Pull structured records from Federal Register Notices Rules and Regulations — clean fields ready as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, or XML for downstream pipelines.

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parseforge/federal-register-regulatory-notices-rules-scraper on Apify. Call: ApifyClient("TOKEN").actor("parseforge/federal-register-regulatory-notices-rules-scraper").call(run_input={...}), then client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items for results. Key inputs: keyword (string), maxItems (integer, default 10), documentType (string), agencyIds (string), dateFrom (string), dateTo (string). Full actor spec: fetch build via GET https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parseforge~federal-register-regulatory-notices-rules-scraper (Bearer TOKEN). Get token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

🚀 Collect regulatory documents from the U.S. Federal Register with 27+ structured fields per document. Filter by document type, agency, keyword, and date range. Track notices, rules, proposed rules, and presidential documents at scale.

Whether you are a compliance officer tracking regulatory changes, a government affairs professional monitoring agency actions, or a legal researcher analyzing federal policy, this tool makes it easy to collect structured data from the Federal Register at scale.

The Federal Register Scraper collects regulatory documents with 27+ structured fields per document, including citations, CFR references, comment deadlines, page counts, docket IDs, and direct PDF/HTML links. Filter by document type, agency, keyword, date range, and significance. Collect thousands of documents per minute.

Target Audience	Compliance officers, government affairs directors, legal researchers, policy analysts, government contractors, lobbying firms
Primary Use Cases	Regulatory monitoring, compliance tracking, policy analysis, comment period management, litigation research, procurement opportunities

📋 What Does It Do

• Collects notices, rules, proposed rules, and presidential documents with full metadata
• Filters by specific agencies (EPA, FDA, DOD, etc.) using agency IDs
• Searches documents by keyword in titles or body text
• Monitors new documents or pulls historical archives within any date window
• Extracts citations, CFR references, comment deadlines, page counts, and docket IDs
• Provides direct PDF and HTML download links for every document

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: abstract, action, agencies, agencyNames, bodyHtmlUrl, cfrReferences, citation, commentUrl, commentsCloseOn, dates, docketIds, documentNumber, documentUrl, effectiveOn, endPage, jsonUrl, pageLength, pdfUrl, publicationDate, regulationIdNumbers, scrapedAt, significant, signingDate, startPage, subtype, title, topics, type. All 28 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 Federal Register Scraper - Notices, Rules & Regulations page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then 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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