Federal Register Scraper — US Rules & Notices

Federal Register Scraper — US Rules & Notices

Pull structured records straight from the US Federal Register — final rules, proposed rules, notices, and presidential documents — filtered by agency, document type, keyword, and publication date. Built on the official, keyless federalregister.gov API, so results are complete, accurately dated, and never blocked or rate-limited by anti-bot defenses.

What it does

The Federal Register is the US government's daily journal of new regulations, proposed rulemakings, agency notices, and presidential documents (executive orders, proclamations). This actor queries the official federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents.json endpoint directly — no HTML scraping, no login, no API key required from you — and returns one clean record per matching document. Because it reads the same API the government itself publishes, coverage and dates are authoritative, and there's nothing to break when the site's front-end changes.

Typical use: track every new rule or notice from a specific agency (EPA, SEC, FDA, etc.), monitor a keyword or topic (e.g. "PFAS", "tariff", "artificial intelligence") across all agencies, or run it on a schedule with a rolling publishedSince date as a daily regulatory/compliance monitor.

Input

• Search term — full-text search across document titles and bodies (e.g. clean water, tariff). Leave blank to list all documents in the date window.
• Agencies — filter by agency slug (e.g. environmental-protection-agency, securities-and-exchange-commission, food-and-drug-administration); find slugs at federalregister.gov/agencies.
• Document types — RULE (final rule), PRORULE (proposed rule), NOTICE, or PRESDOCU (presidential document). Empty = all types.
• Published since / Published before — YYYY-MM-DD date-window filters; combine publishedSince with a rolling recent date for monitoring runs.
• Max results — cap on documents returned (1–50,000, default 100).
• Proxy configuration — Apify Proxy, RESIDENTIAL by default; billed to your account, not ours.

Fields returned

document_number, title, type, abstract, action (e.g. "Final rule", "Notice of proposed rulemaking"), agency_names, agency_slugs, publication_date, effective_on, signing_date, president (for presidential documents), citation (e.g. "89 FR 12345"), page_length, cfr_references (CFR titles/parts referenced), docket_ids, regulation_id_numbers (RINs), html_url (federalregister.gov page), pdf_url (official govinfo.gov PDF), json_url (the document's own API record).

Pricing

Pay-per-result — billed per document pushed to the dataset. See the Store pricing tab for the current price.

Why it's reliable

This actor reads the Federal Register's own official public API — the same source the US government publishes for developers — not a scraped HTML page. That means zero bot-defense risk, no CAPTCHAs, no breakage from site redesigns, and complete/accurate data straight from the source of record. It runs on your Apify account's proxy allocation at effectively zero marginal cost, and is a good fit for scheduled, recurring compliance-monitoring runs.