Federal Register Scraper — US Rules & Notices

Search the entire US Federal Register — final rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents — and get one clean row per document, with optional full text. Built on the official keyless Federal Register API, paging through whole result sets. Filter by type, agency and date.

Perfect for regulatory monitoring, compliance and legal research, policy datasets, and rulemaking alerts.

What you get

One result per document:

• Identity — documentNumber, title, type (Rule / Proposed Rule / Notice / Presidential Document), action
• Publishing — publicationDate, citation
• Agencies — array of { name, slug, id }
• Content — abstract, and fullText (plain-text body) when includeFullText is on
• Links — htmlUrl, pdfUrl

Modes

• Search — combine query (free-text across title and full text), type, agencies and a publication-date range; sort by newest, oldest or relevance. Pages through the whole result set via next_page_url.
• Lookup — pass documentNumbers to fetch specific documents directly.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
query	string	—	Free-text across title and full text
type	array	—	RULE, PRORULE, NOTICE, PRESDOCU
agencies	array	—	Agency slugs, e.g. environmental-protection-agency
publicationDateGte / publicationDateLte	string	—	Date range (YYYY-MM-DD)
order	string	newest	newest, oldest or relevance
includeFullText	boolean	false	Also fetch the full plain-text body (extra request per doc)
documentNumbers	array	—	Look up specific documents by number
maxResults	integer	100	Cap on documents returned

Provide a search (query/type/agencies/publicationDate*) or documentNumbers.

Example input

{
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "type": ["RULE", "PRORULE"],
  "publicationDateGte": "2025-01-01",
  "maxResults": 200
}

One agency's notices:

{ "agencies": ["securities-and-exchange-commission"], "type": ["NOTICE"], "maxResults": 100 }

Example output (one document)

{
  "documentNumber": "2025-23783",
  "title": "Safe and Secure Innovation in Artificial Intelligence",
  "type": "Rule",
  "action": "Final rule.",
  "publicationDate": "2025-11-04",
  "citation": "90 FR 43217",
  "agencies": [
    { "name": "Commerce Department", "slug": "commerce-department", "id": 54 },
    { "name": "National Institute of Standards and Technology", "slug": "national-institute-of-standards-and-technology", "id": 297 }
  ],
  "abstract": "This final rule establishes reporting requirements for developers of dual-use foundation models...",
  "htmlUrl": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/04/2025-23783/...",
  "pdfUrl": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-04/pdf/2025-23783.pdf",
  "fullText": null
}

Why this actor

• Every document type — rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents in one query.
• Deep paging — pulls the whole result set, not just the first page.
• Optional full text — one flag adds the plain-text body per document for RAG or NLP.
• Keyless, official, reliable — free government API with retry/backoff and a descriptive User-Agent.

Notes

• Data is the official Federal Register REST API — free, no key.
• includeFullText adds one request per document, so large runs are slower.
• Public data; you are responsible for compliant use. Not a government service.

Pricing

Pay per result — $3 per 1,000 results (one result = one document). No subscription or platform fees.

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