Federal Register Scraper 📜

US federal government documents — final rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents (executive orders, proclamations) — straight from the official Federal Register API. No API key, no proxy.

Search and monitor everything the US government publishes in the Federal Register: final rules, proposed rules (with public comment deadlines), agency notices, and presidential documents including executive orders. Filter by keyword, document type, agency, and publication date.

Perfect for regulatory & compliance monitoring, legal research, lobbying and policy intelligence, government-affairs tracking, and journalism.

Uses the official Federal Register API — public government records, no key required, very low maintenance.

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Features

• ✅ No API key, no proxy — official government API, stable and low-maintenance.
• ✅ Every document type — final rules, proposed rules, notices, presidential documents.
• ✅ Executive-order tracking — filter presidential documents to executive orders, proclamations, memoranda.
• ✅ Comment-period monitoring — pull only proposed rules whose public comment window is still open.
• ✅ Agency & keyword filters — combine free text, agency and date range.
• ✅ Full history — up to 10,000 documents per query, newest/oldest/relevance ordering.

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Input

Field	Description
Search term	Full-text search (e.g. artificial intelligence, emissions, tariff).
Document types	Final Rule / Proposed Rule / Notice / Presidential Document.
Presidential document type	Executive order, proclamation, etc. (when Presidential Document is selected).
Agencies	Agency slugs (e.g. environmental-protection-agency). See federalregister.gov/agencies.
Published after / before	Publication-date range (YYYY-MM-DD).
Open public comment only	Only proposed rules whose comment period is still open.
Order	Newest / oldest / relevance.
Max results	Up to 10,000 per query.

Example — recent AI-related rules

{
  "term": "artificial intelligence",
  "documentTypes": ["Rule", "Proposed Rule"],
  "publishedAfter": "2025-01-01",
  "maxResults": 500
}

Example — all executive orders this year

{
  "documentTypes": ["Presidential Document"],
  "presidentialDocumentType": "executive_order",
  "publishedAfter": "2026-01-01",
  "order": "newest"
}

Example — proposed rules you can still comment on

{
  "documentTypes": ["Proposed Rule"],
  "commentsOpenOnly": true,
  "maxResults": 300
}

Output

{
  "document_number": "2026-13842",
  "title": "Medicare and Medicaid Programs; CY 2027 Payment Policies...",
  "type": "Proposed Rule",
  "abstract": "This proposed rule would revise payment policies under...",
  "action": "Proposed rule.",
  "publication_date": "2026-07-16",
  "effective_on": null,
  "comments_close_on": "2026-09-14",
  "agencies": ["Health and Human Services Department", "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services"],
  "citation": "91 FR 43842",
  "docket_ids": ["CMS-1834-P"],
  "executive_order_number": null,
  "president": null,
  "significant": true,
  "regulations_dot_gov_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/...",
  "html_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/07/16/2026-13842/...",
  "pdf_url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-07-16/pdf/2026-13842.pdf"
}

Run it on a schedule

Set publishedAfter to yesterday (or commentsOpenOnly) and run daily to track new regulations, executive orders or open comment periods — pipe changes to Slack, email, a webhook or a compliance dashboard.

Notes & limitations

• Official Federal Register API — public US government documents.
• A single query is capped at 10,000 documents by the API (narrow with filters for more coverage).
• commentsOpenOnly is applied over a newest-first scan; pair it with documentTypes: ["Proposed Rule"] for best results.
• Data source: Federal Register (National Archives / GPO).

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Keywords

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