# Federal Register API - US Rules, Notices & Executive Orders (`pushbuild/federal-register`) Actor

Search every Federal Register document since 1994: final and proposed rules, notices, executive orders and presidential documents, by keyword, agency, type, date and CFR part. Returns abstracts, effective and comment dates, dockets and links.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pushbuild/federal-register.md
- **Developed by:** [Pushbuild Data](https://apify.com/pushbuild) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Other, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$0.50 / 1,000 documents

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Federal Register API - US Rules, Notices & Executive Orders

Every document in the Federal Register since 1994, from the official federalregister.gov API.

### Search

Full text by keyword, filtered by agency, document type (final rule, proposed rule, notice, presidential document), publication dates, CFR title and part, significance, and open comment periods.

### Each document

Number, type, title, abstract, agencies, publication, effective and comment-close dates, action, docket IDs, RINs, CFR references, citation, executive order number, and HTML, PDF and full-text links.

### Public inspection

Documents filed for public inspection today, a day before they publish.

### Uses

Regulatory monitoring and compliance alerts, policy research, lobbying and government affairs, legal research. Pay per document.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Full-text keywords, e.g. artificial intelligence, PFAS, crypto.

## `documentTypes` (type: `array`):

Limit to these types (any if empty).

## `agencies` (type: `array`):

Agency slugs as used on federalregister.gov, e.g. environmental-protection-agency, federal-aviation-administration.

## `fromDate` (type: `string`):

Published on or after (YYYY-MM-DD).

## `untilDate` (type: `string`):

Published on or before (YYYY-MM-DD).

## `significantOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only documents deemed significant under EO 12866.

## `openForComment` (type: `boolean`):

Only documents whose comment period has not closed.

## `cfrTitle` (type: `integer`):

Documents affecting this Code of Federal Regulations title.

## `cfrPart` (type: `integer`):

With CFR title: a specific part.

## `documentNumbers` (type: `array`):

Fetch specific documents, e.g. 2024-12345.

## `publicInspection` (type: `boolean`):

Also return documents on public inspection today (published tomorrow).

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Order of search results.

## `maxItemsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Up to 2,000 per query.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "drones"
  ],
  "significantOnly": false,
  "openForComment": false,
  "publicInspection": false,
  "sort": "newest",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "drones"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("pushbuild/federal-register").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "searchQueries": ["drones"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("pushbuild/federal-register").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "drones"
  ]
}' |
apify call pushbuild/federal-register --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,pushbuild/federal-register"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/PrU9FOBRMguU9cbWL/builds/NrD7o8u3Ad6jvCRcL/openapi.json