Federal Register Scraper - Rules, Notices & Comment Deadlines

What does the Federal Register Scraper do?

The Federal Register Scraper extracts documents from the Federal Register, the daily journal of the US government: final rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents (executive orders, proclamations, memoranda). For each document you get the agency, the summary, the comment deadline, the effective date, the docket and RIN numbers, the CFR parts affected, whether the rule is significant, and the number of public comments on Regulations.gov, as clean JSON, CSV or Excel.

It reads FederalRegister.gov's official public API, so there is no login and no API key. Press Start to get today's documents, or filter by agency, keyword, document type or "open for comment".

What data can you extract from the Federal Register?

Field	Example
title, type, subtype, action	Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions ..., Proposed Rule, Advanced notice of proposed rulemaking.
agencies, agencySlugs	Commodity Futures Trading Commission
abstract	The agency's summary
publicationDate, effectiveDate, commentsCloseDate, signingDate	2026-10-13, 2026-12-14
dates	Comments must be received on or before December 14, 2026.
docketIds, regulationIdNumbers	EPA-HQ-OAR-2023-0072, 3038-AF80
cfrReferences, topics	17 CFR 1, 17 CFR 38
significant	true for rules with major economic or policy impact
commentUrl, regulationsGovUrl, commentsCount	Where to comment and how many comments were received
executiveOrderNumber, president	14435
citation, volume, startPage, endPage, pageLength	91 FR 64811
url, pdfUrl, fullTextXmlUrl, rawTextUrl	Links to the document, the official PDF and the full text

Every field is described in the Actor's output schema.

Who uses Federal Register data?

• Compliance and regulatory affairs teams tracking new rules and effective dates for their industry.
• Government affairs, trade associations and law firms watching proposed rules and comment deadlines.
• Consultants and lobbyists monitoring agencies and dockets for their clients.
• Policy researchers and journalists analysing rulemaking activity.
• Legal-tech products and AI agents that answer "what changed in the regulations for X this week?"

How to use the Federal Register Scraper

1. Optionally enter a keyword, pick document types and agencies (by name, e.g.

   Environmental Protection Agency
   ).
2. Narrow by publication date, open for comment, significant rules only, a CFR title and part or a docket ID.
3. Set Maximum results and press Start.
4. Download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the API.

How much does it cost to scrape the Federal Register?

This Actor uses pay-per-result pricing: you pay only for documents saved to your dataset. There is no monthly fee and no separate charge for platform usage.

Apify plan	Price per 1,000 documents
Free	$3.00
Bronze	$2.70
Silver	$2.40
Gold	$2.00

Example: 1,000 documents cost $3.00 on the free plan and $2.00 on Gold. A test run with 20 results costs $0.06. Each run also has Apify's standard start fee of $0.00005.

Input example

{
    "agencies": ["Environmental Protection Agency"],
    "documentTypes": ["PRORULE"],
    "openForComment": true,
    "maxItems": 100
}

Output example

{
    "documentNumber": "2026-20888",
    "title": "Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets",
    "type": "Proposed Rule",
    "subtype": null,
    "action": "Advanced notice of proposed rulemaking.",
    "abstract": "The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (\"Commission\" or \"CFTC\") is issuing an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking ...",
    "agencies": ["Commodity Futures Trading Commission"],
    "agencySlugs": ["commodity-futures-trading-commission"],
    "publicationDate": "2026-10-13",
    "effectiveDate": null,
    "commentsCloseDate": "2026-12-14",
    "signingDate": null,
    "dates": "Comments must be received on or before December 14, 2026.",
    "citation": "91 FR 64811",
    "volume": 91,
    "startPage": 64811,
    "endPage": 64840,
    "pageLength": 30,
    "docketIds": [],
    "regulationIdNumbers": ["3038-AF80"],
    "cfrReferences": ["17 CFR 1", "17 CFR 38", "17 CFR 39"],
    "topics": [],
    "significant": null,
    "executiveOrderNumber": null,
    "president": "Donald Trump",
    "tocSubject": null,
    "correctionOf": null,
    "commentUrl": null,
    "regulationsGovDocumentId": null,
    "regulationsGovDocketId": null,
    "commentsCount": null,
    "regulationsGovUrl": null,
    "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/13/2026-20888/regulation-crypto-asset-transactions-and-regulation-crypto-asset-markets",
    "pdfUrl": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-10-13/pdf/2026-20888.pdf",
    "fullTextXmlUrl": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/xml/2026/10/13/2026-20888.xml",
    "rawTextUrl": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2026/10/13/2026-20888.txt",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents.json",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-13T05:00:00.000Z"
}

Get regulatory alerts every day

Turn on Only new or updated and add a schedule (for example every weekday at 7:00, after the Federal Register is published). Each run then returns only documents that are new, or whose comment deadline, effective date or comment count changed since your last run with the same filters, so you pay only for what you haven't seen. Connect a webhook, email or Slack integration to get alerts.

Large runs

The Federal Register API returns at most 10,000 documents per search. The Actor continues past that automatically by publication date, so you can export a whole year or an agency's full history in one run.

Integrations and API

Run the Actor from the Apify API, the JavaScript or Python client, or connect it to Make, Zapier, Google Sheets, Slack and webhooks. Results can be exported as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

The Actor works as a tool for AI agents through Apify's MCP server: the input fields have plain names and descriptions, and a small run with a keyword returns in seconds.

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FAQ

Is it legal to scrape the Federal Register? Federal Register documents are US government works and not subject to copyright. This Actor reads only the official public API, which FederalRegister.gov provides for programmatic use, at a polite rate. It is not affiliated with the Office of the Federal Register or NARA. You are responsible for how you use the data.

Does it return the full text? It returns links to the full text (plain text, XML, PDF) for every document. Ask on the Issues tab if you need the text itself in the dataset.

How fresh is the data? Each run reads the API live. New documents appear every business day.

Something is wrong or missing? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab and we'll reply within 48 hours. Custom filters or data joins are welcome too.