Federal Register Scraper - US Rules & Regulations

Search the US Federal Register and get clean rows for every document: final rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents - with title, abstract, agencies, publication and effective dates, public comment deadlines, CFR references, docket IDs, citation and PDF links. Filter by document type, agency and date. Built on the official API - no key, no browser.

What you get per document

Field	Meaning
documentNumber / title / citation	FR document number, title and Federal Register citation
documentType / documentTypeLabel	RULE, PRORULE, NOTICE or PRESDOCU (with a readable label)
abstract / action	Summary and the regulatory action
agencies / agencyCount	Issuing agencies
publicationDate / effectiveOn / commentsCloseOn	Key dates, incl. the public-comment deadline
cfrReferences / docketIds / regulationIdNumbers	Code of Federal Regulations parts, dockets, RINs
significant / president / signingDate	Significance flag; president & signing date (presidential docs)
htmlUrl / pdfUrl	Links to the official document

Input

{ "searchQueries": ["artificial intelligence"], "documentTypes": ["RULE"], "dateFrom": "2024-01-01" }

• Search terms - full-text search, one per line. Document numbers - exact lookups.
• Filters - document type, agency slugs (e.g. environmental-protection-agency), and a publication date range.
• Import from a file - paste a list, or link a public .txt/.csv, a Google Sheet/Drive link, or an Apify key-value-store record. Output fields trim every record.

Leave everything empty and the run returns a small free sample so you can see the shape first.

Reliability

Reads the official Federal Register API - public, keyless, no anti-bot, page-paginated for deep result sets. A search that returns nothing bills $0.

Honest limits

• Metadata, not the full rule text. You get the document record, abstract and links; follow htmlUrl/pdfUrl for the full text.
• commentsCloseOn is present only for documents with an open comment period (mostly proposed rules) - an honest null otherwise.
• cfrReferences / president / signingDate populate only where applicable by document type - presidential fields on presidential documents, CFR parts on rules.

Pricing

$0.001 per document on the FREE tier (tiered pricing lowers it with volume). Only documents actually saved are billed; an empty search costs nothing.

Output views

• Documents - title, type, agencies, publication date, comment deadline, citation and link.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

Available through the Apify MCP server - an agent can monitor new rules from an agency, track a rulemaking's comment deadline, or pull every AI-related regulation in a date range in one call.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready - AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 - an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server - no account, no API key.
• Skyfire - agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.