Federal Register Search — US Regulations & Rules 🏛️

Search the official US Federal Register for federal rules, proposed rules, public notices, and presidential documents (executive orders, proclamations) — returned as clean, structured JSON. Filter by keyword, document type, agency, or date, and get agency names, publication and effective dates, comment deadlines, citations, and direct links.

Built for legal, compliance, policy, and journalism workflows where knowing what the government just published — and when it takes effect — actually matters.

Why use it

• 📜 All document types — final rules, proposed rules, notices, and presidential documents
• 🏢 Agency filtering — track a specific agency (EPA, SEC, FDA, etc.)
• 🗓️ Date & deadline fields — publication date, effective date, and comment-close date
• 🔎 Full-text search — find every document mentioning your topic
• 🧾 Citations & links — official citation plus HTML and PDF URLs
• 👔 Executive orders — president, EO number, and signing date for presidential documents

Use cases

• Regulatory monitoring — track new and proposed rules affecting your industry
• Compliance — catch effective dates and public-comment deadlines
• Legal research — find rules and notices by agency or topic
• Policy & journalism — monitor executive orders and agency actions as they publish
• Datasets — build structured corpora of federal regulatory activity

Input

Field	Description
Search term	Full-text keywords.
Document types	RULE, PRORULE, NOTICE, PRESDOCU (any combination).
Agency slug	Restrict to one agency (Federal Register slug).
Published after / before	Date range (YYYY-MM-DD).
Sort order	Newest, oldest, or relevance.
Maximum documents	How many to return.

Output

{
  "documentNumber": "2026-12345",
  "title": "Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Listing the Foo Species",
  "type": "Rule",
  "abstract": "We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, are listing...",
  "action": "Final rule.",
  "agencies": ["Fish and Wildlife Service", "Interior Department"],
  "publicationDate": "2026-05-15",
  "effectiveDate": "2026-06-15",
  "commentsCloseDate": null,
  "citation": "91 FR 12345",
  "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/15/2026-12345/...",
  "pdfUrl": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-05-15/pdf/2026-12345.pdf"
}

Export to JSON, CSV, or Excel, or pull via the Apify API. Schedule it and pipe new rules into Slack, email, or a compliance dashboard.

Notes

• Uses the official public Federal Register API. Independent tool, not affiliated with the Office of the Federal Register or the US government.
• Agency slugs follow the Federal Register's own naming (see federalregister.gov/agencies).