🏛️ GovInfo Publications Scraper

🚀 Pull official US government publications in seconds. Bills, Federal Register, Congressional Record, committee reports, and the US Code, straight from the public govinfo.gov collections API.

The GovInfo Publications Scraper turns the official Government Publishing Office (GPO) api.govinfo.gov/collections endpoint into a structured dataset of federal publications. Pick a collection (Bills, Federal Register, Congressional Record, US Code, etc.), set a date range, and the actor walks the paginated response and flattens each package into one row.

GovInfo is the authoritative source for official US federal documents, maintained by the GPO and trusted by lawyers, journalists, and researchers.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
⚖️ Legal researchers	Track new bills and statutes by Congress
📰 Investigative journalists	Monitor the Federal Register for new rules
🏢 Policy analysts	Build longitudinal datasets of congressional activity
🤖 ML engineers	Train models on official legislative text
🏛️ Civic tech builders	Power public dashboards of congressional output

📋 What the GovInfo Publications Scraper does

• Calls api.govinfo.gov/collections/{collection}/{startDate}/{endDate} with your filters.
• Walks the paginated response across pageSize and offset.
• Flattens each package into one row with stable columns.
• Builds the canonical PDF URL for every package so you can pipe to a downloader.
• Pushes any upstream error as a single record rather than crashing the run.

💡 Why it matters GovInfo holds the authoritative copy of every US federal publication, but its API requires you to chunk by date range and walk offsets. This actor handles pagination so you can focus on the data.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: branch, collection, congress, docClass, granuleCount, lastModified, packageId, pdfUrl, publishDate, scrapedAt, title. All 11 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know The operator running this actor needs a free data.gov API key set as the GOVINFO_API_KEY environment variable. Get one in 30 seconds at api.data.gov/signup.

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Pick a collection and a startDate.
3. Click Start.
4. Open the dataset when the run finishes.

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