Federal Register Scraper — Pay Per Result

Scrape Federal Register documents through the official JSON API (federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents.json). Search, filter by agency and document type, paginate newest-first.

Store search keywords: Federal Register scraper · government regulations · FR documents API · federalregister.gov · rulemaking notices

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Why this Actor

Need	What you get
Regulatory monitoring	Newest documents with title, abstract, agencies, links
Targeted pulls	Search term, agency slug, and document type filters
Failures that shouldn’t bill	Empty pages / HTTP errors → not charged
Low cost	HTTP-only (no browser); PPE priced from measured unit economics

Official public API only. No login required.

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Input

{
  "query": "visa bond",
  "agencies": ["state-department"],
  "documentTypes": ["Rule"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Leave query empty to fetch the newest documents with optional agency/type filters.

Agency values are Federal Register slugs (e.g. environmental-protection-agency, state-department).

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Output fields

Field	Description
documentNumber	FR document number (e.g. 2026-15726)
title	Document title
type	Document type (Rule, Notice, Proposed Rule, …)
abstract	Summary text when provided
publicationDate	Publication date (YYYY-MM-DD)
agencies	Array of issuing agencies (id, name, slug, url)
htmlUrl	HTML document page on federalregister.gov
pdfUrl	PDF link (govinfo.gov)
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp of this run

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Pricing

Pay-per-event for each delivered document row.

• Empty result pages and HTTP failures → not charged

~$0.50 / 1,000 documents on the Store pricing tab (HTTP-only; empty pages free).

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Limitations (honest)

• Public API rate limits apply — use requestDelayMs for large pulls
• Agency filters expect Federal Register slugs, not arbitrary abbreviations
• Abstract text can be long; full rule text is on the linked HTML/PDF pages
• API count is capped; very broad queries may not return the full corpus in one run

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Issues / feature requests: use the Actor Issues tab.