🏛️ Federal Register Comment Deadline Monitor

Automatically find US federal rules and notices whose public-comment periods are closing soon. Unlike a generic Federal Register scraper, this Actor produces a deadline-ready feed with rolling date windows, days remaining, agency identifiers, RINs, CFR references, citations, significance flags, and official source links.

Use it for regulatory intelligence, compliance calendars, public-policy research, trade associations, legal operations, journalism, and AI-agent workflows.

Why use this Actor

• Schedule-ready: daysAhead automatically moves the search window every day; no dates need to be edited.
• Deadline focused: every paid row has a public-comment closing date.
• Useful filters: agency slugs, keywords, document types, and significant documents only.
• Verification links: records link to official FederalRegister.gov HTML, PDF, raw text, and JSON when available.
• No proxy or external API subscription: data comes from the official FederalRegister.gov API.

Example input for daily monitoring

{
  "daysAhead": 30,
  "includePastDays": 0,
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "agencies": [],
  "documentTypes": ["PRORULE", "NOTICE"],
  "significantOnly": false,
  "maxItems": 100
}

For a historical or fixed window, provide both deadlineFrom and deadlineTo in YYYY-MM-DD format. Fixed dates override the rolling window.

📤 Output fields

Group	Fields
Deadline	commentsCloseOn, daysRemaining, effectiveOn
Document	documentNumber, documentTitle, documentType, documentSubtype, publicationDate, action, abstract
Regulatory identifiers	citation, docketIds, regulationIdNumbers, cfrReferences, significant
Classification	agencies, agencySlugs, topics
Official sources	htmlUrl, pdfUrl, rawTextUrl, sourceJsonUrl

Example output

{
  "documentNumber": "2026-12345",
  "documentTitle": "Example proposed rule",
  "documentType": "Proposed Rule",
  "publicationDate": "2026-08-20",
  "commentsCloseOn": "2026-09-21",
  "daysRemaining": 22,
  "agencies": ["Example Agency"],
  "agencySlugs": ["example-agency"],
  "citation": "91 FR 12345",
  "cfrReferences": ["40 CFR 1"],
  "regulationIdNumbers": ["1234-AA00"],
  "significant": false,
  "docketIds": ["EXAMPLE-2026-0001"],
  "htmlUrl": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/...",
  "pdfUrl": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/..."
}

The example shows the schema and is not a real regulatory document.

Automation recipe

Create an Apify schedule that runs daily, keep daysAhead at 30, 60, or 90, and send the dataset to a webhook, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, email, or an MCP-compatible AI client. Use documentNumber as the stable deduplication key in the destination.

💰 Pricing

Pay per saved deadline. Filters run before charging, and maxItems limits the maximum number of paid rows. No proxy fee or external data subscription is required. The exact event price is shown in the Pricing tab.

🔎 Data notes

The source is the official FederalRegister.gov API, but agencies can correct or extend deadlines. Verify legally significant dates using the linked official document. This Actor supplies public regulatory data, not legal advice.

Support

If a record is missing or malformed, open an issue and include the Federal Register document number. Never include API tokens or credentials.

📥 Complete input reference

Field	Type	Default	Purpose
daysAhead	integer	30	Rolling window from today. Ideal for schedules. Ignored when both fixed dates are provided.
includePastDays	integer	0	Also include deadlines from this many days before today.
deadlineFrom	string	—	Optional earliest closing date (YYYY-MM-DD). Provide together with Deadline to to override the rolling window.
deadlineTo	string	—	Optional latest closing date (YYYY-MM-DD). Maximum fixed range: 180 days.
query	string	—	Optional full-text query, for example artificial intelligence, banking, or emissions.
agencies	array	—	Optional Federal Register agency slugs, for example environmental-protection-agency.
documentTypes	array	["PRORULE","NOTICE"]	Optional values: RULE, PRORULE, NOTICE, PRESDOCU.
significantOnly	boolean	false	Return only documents marked significant by the Federal Register.
maxItems	integer	100	Maximum matching records written and charged.

📤 Complete output reference

The default dataset is exportable as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS. Fields remain stable for scheduled runs and API integrations.

Field	Type
documentNumber	string
documentTitle	string
documentType	string
documentSubtype	string
publicationDate	string
commentsCloseOn	string
daysRemaining	integer
agencies	array
agencySlugs	array
abstract	string
action	string
effectiveOn	string
citation	string
cfrReferences	array
regulationIdNumbers	array
significant	boolean
docketIds	array
topics	array
htmlUrl	string
pdfUrl	string
rawTextUrl	string
sourceJsonUrl	string
source	string

🔌 API & integrations

Run this Actor from the Apify Console, API, CLI, MCP, Make, Zapier or n8n. Replace the Actor identifier and token in this template:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/federal-rule-comment-deadlines/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

Results are stored in the run's default dataset and can be forwarded with Apify webhooks or scheduled Tasks.

🔎 Search keywords

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