Federal Register Search & New Rules Monitor

Search and monitor the Federal Register, the official daily journal of the US government. It covers new final rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents (executive orders, proclamations, memoranda and determinations). The Actor calls the official Federal Register API and returns clean JSON.

You can filter by keyword, agency, document type, publication date, CFR title/part, docket ID, EO 12866 significance and open comment periods. Schedule it daily with Only new since last run to get alerts on new filings only.

It is built for regulatory affairs and compliance teams, government-relations and lobbying firms, law firms, trade associations, ESG/energy analysts, grant and contract hunters, journalists, and AI agents that need to know what changed in federal regulation.

Why this Actor

• Official source: the federalregister.gov API v1, published by the Office of the Federal Register (NARA) and GPO. No login, no proxies, no HTML scraping.
• Monitor-ready: incremental mode remembers what you've already received, so a daily schedule returns only new documents.
• Useful filters: agencies by short name (EPA, FDA, SEC), slug or full name; several keywords merged and deduplicated; "exact phrase", a | b and -exclude syntax; significant-only; open-for-comment-only; CFR title/part; docket.
• Normalized output: abstract, plain-text excerpt (highlight HTML stripped), PDF/HTML/full-text links, comment deadline, effective date, RINs, dockets, CFR references, EO number and signing date.
• Cheap and predictable: you pay per document returned, and the Actor stops at your spending limit. Runs are tiny (128 MB, a few seconds).

Input example

{
  "searchTerms": ["artificial intelligence", "\"critical minerals\""],
  "agencies": ["EPA", "commerce-department"],
  "documentTypes": ["rule", "proposed_rule"],
  "lookbackDays": 7,
  "onlyOpenForComment": false,
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true,
  "maxItems": 200
}

With an empty input you get the 100 newest documents of all types from the last 7 days.

Output example (truncated)

{
  "documentNumber": "2026-20374",
  "title": "Section 3 Benchmarks for Creating Economic Opportunities for Low- and Very Low-Income Persons and Eligible Businesses",
  "type": "Rule",
  "action": "Notification of benchmark updates and request for comments.",
  "agencies": ["Housing and Urban Development Department"],
  "publicationDate": "2026-10-05",
  "abstract": "HUD's regulations require that HUD set Section 3 benchmarks ...",
  "significant": null,
  "citation": "91 FR 63146",
  "docketIds": ["Docket No. FR-6622-N-01"],
  "cfrReferences": [{"title": 24, "part": "75", "chapter": null}],
  "effectiveOn": "2026-11-04",
  "commentsCloseOn": "2026-12-04",
  "htmlUrl": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/05/2026-20374/...",
  "pdfUrl": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-10-05/pdf/2026-20374.pdf",
  "regulationsDotGovUrl": "http://www.regulations.gov/commenton/HUD-2026-1651-0001"
}

Pricing

Pay per event: one register-document event per document returned, plus the standard Actor start event. See the Pricing tab. Set a maximum cost per run, and the Actor stops cleanly when it reaches it.

Notes

• The Federal Register publishes on federal business days, usually 100–150 documents a day.
• significant is true/false only when OIRA has made an EO 12866 determination. For most notices it is null.
• Each keyword runs as a separate search, and the results are merged newest-first and deduplicated. matchedSearchTerm shows which keyword found each document.
• For documents not yet published, use the Federal Register Public Inspection desk. This Actor covers published documents.

Legal and compliance

This Actor uses the public Federal Register API (federalregister.gov). Federal Register content is a work of the US government and is generally not subject to copyright. The Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Office of the Federal Register, the National Archives (NARA) or the Government Publishing Office. The Federal Register API output is not an official legal edition: for legal research, rely on the official PDF on govinfo.gov (linked in pdfUrl). You are responsible for how you use the data, including compliance with applicable laws. If you use names or contact details found in documents for outreach, comply with CAN-SPAM, TCPA, GDPR and similar laws, and do not use the data for unsolicited spam, robocalls or texts.