# Federal Register Regulatory Impact API (`rustic_soybean/regulatory-impact-api`) Actor

Turn fresh Federal Register rules and notices into structured regulatory intelligence with affected industries, likely obligations, urgency, and downstream compliance or purchasing needs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/rustic_soybean/regulatory-impact-api.md
- **Developed by:** [Chris Johnson](https://apify.com/rustic_soybean) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$30.00 / 1,000 regulatory impact results

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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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 Regulatory Impact API

Turn raw Federal Register publications into structured regulatory intelligence that business systems and AI agents can act on. The Actor queries the official Federal Register API for your topics, industries, agencies, or compliance terms, then ranks relevant documents and summarizes likely business impact instead of returning an undifferentiated document feed.

### What this regulatory monitoring API returns

For each relevant rule or notice, the Actor can return the Federal Register document number, title, document type, agency, abstract, matched terms, relevance score, affected industries, likely obligations, likely purchasing or service needs, urgency score, source URL, publication date, and check timestamp.

### Who uses it

- Compliance and legal operations teams monitoring rule changes.
- Consultants and service providers looking for new compliance demand.
- Vendors tracking regulations that may create demand for software, training, testing, engineering, audit, safety, privacy, cybersecurity, or documentation services.
- Procurement and market-intelligence teams looking for early downstream signals.
- AI agents that need a structured Federal Register feed rather than full-text documents.

### Common use cases

- Monitor cybersecurity, privacy, AI, environmental, labor, financial, or healthcare regulation.
- Find new Federal Register rules affecting a target industry.
- Identify documents with likely reporting, recordkeeping, implementation, or policy-update requirements.
- Rank regulatory developments by relevance and urgency before analysts review the source documents.
- Feed new regulatory signals into dashboards, alerts, CRM research, or agent workflows.

### Input and source

Provide one or more regulatory topics in terms and choose a recent lookback window. Live mode uses the official public Federal Register API and does not require a paid upstream Actor or external API subscription. Demo mode returns a synthetic result for low-cost testing.

### Interpretation

The impact fields are heuristic decision-support signals derived from published Federal Register text and topic matching. They are not legal advice and do not replace review of the underlying rule, notice, effective date, applicability, or counsel. Always follow the source URL for consequential compliance decisions.

# Actor input Schema

## `terms` (type: `array`):

Topics, industries, agencies, or compliance terms.

## `lookbackDays` (type: `integer`):

Recent publication window.

## `demoMode` (type: `boolean`):

Return a synthetic regulatory impact for testing.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "terms": [
    "cybersecurity"
  ],
  "lookbackDays": 7,
  "demoMode": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

## `summary` (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 = {
    "terms": [
        "cybersecurity"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("rustic_soybean/regulatory-impact-api").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 = { "terms": ["cybersecurity"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("rustic_soybean/regulatory-impact-api").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 '{
  "terms": [
    "cybersecurity"
  ]
}' |
apify call rustic_soybean/regulatory-impact-api --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,rustic_soybean/regulatory-impact-api"
        }
    }
}
```

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/aYtNB4cBbePZtOpXD/builds/C1A4vQ9Qd9V7dmPBq/openapi.json