Federal Register Document Scraper

Extract rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents from the U.S. Federal Register, the daily journal of the federal government with over 90 years of public records

30 fields per record

United States coverage

JSON / CSV / Excel output formats

Updated 2026-06-22

What you get

Each record is one Federal Register document with its identification, agency, publication and comment dates, citation and source URLs. Use it to monitor new federal rulemaking, track agency activity, build regulatory alerts or feed a compliance database.

• title: full document title
• type: document category (Rule, Proposed Rule, Notice, Presidential Document)
• documentNumber: unique Federal Register document number
• presidentialDocumentType: subtype for presidential documents (Proclamation, Executive Order, Determination, Memorandum)
• citation: Federal Register citation (for example 91 FR 36559)
• publicationDate: date the document was published
• effectiveDate: date the rule takes effect, when stated
• commentsCloseOn: deadline for public comments on proposed rules, when stated
• abstract: official summary of the document
• agencies: list of issuing federal agencies
• docketIds: agency docket identifiers
• rin: Regulation Identifier Number, when assigned
• president: president associated with the document, when applicable
• pdfUrl: link to the official PDF on govinfo.gov
• htmlUrl: link to the document page on the Federal Register
• action*: short statement of the regulatory action
• dates*: free-text dates section with effective and comment deadlines
• significant*: whether the document is flagged as significant
• topics*: subject index terms
• cfrReferences*: Code of Federal Regulations references touched by the document
• startPage*: first page in the printed Federal Register
• endPage*: last page in the printed Federal Register
• pageLength*: number of pages
• signingDate*: signing date for presidential documents
• executiveOrderNumber*: executive order number, when applicable
• proclamationNumber*: proclamation number, when applicable
• bodyHtmlUrl*: link to the full document body in HTML
• rawTextUrl*: link to the plain text version
• fullTextXmlUrl*: link to the full XML version
• regulationsDotGovUrl*: link to the comment page on Regulations.gov
• observedAt: when this document was last seen by the scraper

*These fields only appear when Fetch full document details is set to true.

Who is it for

Use case	Who benefits
Track new rules and proposed rules by keyword	Compliance and legal teams
Monitor a specific agency's rulemaking	Government affairs and lobbyists
Collect comment deadlines for proposed rules	Regulatory affairs professionals
Build a searchable archive of presidential documents	Researchers and journalists
Feed regulatory data into an internal alerting system	Data and engineering teams

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the Federal Register cover and how far back does it go? The Federal Register is the official daily publication of the U.S. federal government and includes final rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents from federal agencies. The underlying public data goes back to 1994 in full text and to 1936 in metadata, so you can search both recent and historical documents.

How many documents can I collect in a single run? You can set the Max Items value as high as you need. The scraper paginates through every matching document one hundred at a time, so a broad search across a wide date range can return thousands of records in one run.

Can I filter by document type, agency and date at the same time? Yes. You can combine a search term, one or more document types, one or more agencies and a publication date range. Leaving a filter empty simply removes that restriction, so you can be as broad or as narrow as you want.

Why are some fields like effective date or proclamation number empty? Those fields only exist for certain document types. Effective date and comment deadlines appear on rules and proposed rules, while signing date, proclamation number and executive order number appear on presidential documents. Empty values reflect the source data and are never invented.

What happens if a document has no details available? The scraper always returns the listing level fields for every document. When Fetch full document details is on, it makes one extra request per document to add the body, topics and page range. If a detail request fails, the listing fields are still returned so you never lose a record.

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This actor is an independent tool and has no affiliation with the Federal Register or the U.S. government. It only accesses data that is publicly available through the official Federal Register API. Use it in accordance with the Federal Register's terms of service.