📜 Federal Register Scraper

🚀 Export every Federal Register document in seconds. Final rules, proposed rules, notices, and presidential documents from the daily journal of the United States government.

The Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents. This scraper turns that firehose into structured data you can filter by agency, document type, search term, and publication date range.

Coverage includes every document published since 1994 across 400+ executive branch agencies and sub-agencies, including the EPA, FDA, FAA, SEC, Treasury, and the Executive Office of the President. Each record returns the document number, title, type, publication date, abstract, agency list, and direct links to the official HTML page and PDF.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Compliance teams, regulatory analysts, lobbyists, journalists, policy researchers, law firms	Tracking new rules, monitoring agency activity, building regulatory alerts, historical research, training LLMs on US regulations

📋 What the Federal Register Scraper does

• Pulls daily and historical Federal Register documents via the official API
• Filters by document type (Final Rule, Proposed Rule, Notice, Presidential Document)
• Filters by agency slug, search term, and publication date range
• Returns abstract, agency list, publication date, and official PDF links
• Paginates automatically up to your requested maxItems

💡 Why it matters: Federal Register rules govern trillions of dollars of regulated activity. Catching a new proposed rule the day it drops is the difference between shaping policy and reacting to it.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: abstract, agencies, documentNumber, pdfUrl, publicationDate, publicInspectionPdfUrl, results, scrapedAt, title, type, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: The Federal Register API returns up to 10,000 documents per query. For larger date ranges, split into multiple runs by year or quarter.

🚀 How to use

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

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⚠️ Disclaimer: Independent tool, not affiliated with the Office of the Federal Register or any US federal agency. Only publicly available data is collected.

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