FIPS 201 Approved Products List Scraper

Scrapes and normalizes the U.S. federal FIPS 201 Approved Products List (idmanagement.gov) — the official registry of Physical Access Control System (PACS) infrastructure, PIV smart cards, and validation systems approved for government procurement — into one flat, consistently-typed dataset. Covers approved, awaiting-approval, legacy, and removed products across all 9 sections of the page in a single run.

The source page mixes 9 differently-shaped HTML tables (different column sets per section: PACS pairs, combined-infrastructure rows, PIV card rows, removed-product rows with removal reason). This Actor reconciles all of them into one schema so you don't have to hand-merge sections yourself.

Use cases

1. Federal procurement/compliance due diligence — verify a PACS or PIV product is currently on the Approved Products List before purchase or contract award.
2. Vendor risk monitoring — track when a product moves to the Removed Product List and why (removalReason), to flag deployed products that have lost approval.
3. Integrator/reseller catalog building — pull the full current APL (PACS infrastructure + matching validation systems + APL numbers) to populate an internal compliant-products catalog.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	array	[{"url": "https://www.idmanagement.gov/fips201/"}]	Page(s) to scrape — the whole APL lives on one page
maxItems	integer	500	Max product rows to scrape (the full list is ~60 rows)
delaySeconds	number	1.0	Polite delay before each fetch
concurrency	integer	5	Fetch concurrency (only relevant if multiple startUrls are supplied)

Output fields

Field	Description
section	Source page section heading
category	PACS / PIV Card / PIV Card/Reader
topology	13.01 / 13.02 / Cloud 13.01 / Cloud 13.02 / N/A
approvalStatus	Approved / Awaiting Approval / Legacy / Removed
productName	PACS infrastructure, PIV card, or solution name
productAplNumber	APL # for the product/infrastructure row
validationSystem	Validation system name (PACS rows, nullable)
validationAplNumber	Validation system APL # (nullable)
supplier	Supplier (removed PIV/reader rows only, nullable)
productNumber	Product number (removed PIV/reader rows only, nullable)
validDate	Valid date (PIV card rows, nullable)
removalDate	Removal date (removed rows only, nullable)
removalReason	Removal reason (removed rows only, nullable)
productPdfUrl	Absolute URL to the product's linked PDF (nullable)
validationPdfUrl	Absolute URL to the validation system's linked PDF (nullable)
updateType	New/Update flag (awaiting-approval rows only, nullable)
testingStatus	Testing status (awaiting-approval rows only, nullable)
sourceAnchor	Direct link to the source section on idmanagement.gov

Example output

{
  "section": "Approved 13.01 Topology PACS Products",
  "category": "PACS",
  "topology": "13.01",
  "approvalStatus": "Approved",
  "productName": "AMAG Symmetry Professional v9.8",
  "productAplNumber": "10047",
  "validationSystem": "HID Global Validation System for AMAG Symmetry Professional v9.8",
  "validationAplNumber": "10048",
  "supplier": "",
  "productNumber": "",
  "validDate": "",
  "removalDate": "",
  "removalReason": "",
  "productPdfUrl": "https://www.idmanagement.gov/docs/apl-10047-symmetry.pdf",
  "validationPdfUrl": "https://www.idmanagement.gov/docs/apl-10048-amag.pdf",
  "updateType": "",
  "testingStatus": "",
  "sourceAnchor": "https://www.idmanagement.gov/fips201/#approved-1301-topology-pacs-products"
}

Pricing

$4 per 1,000 results (Pay-Per-Event). Example costs:

Results	Cost
100	$0.40
500	$2.00
1,000	$4.00
5,000	$20.00

The full current APL is ~60 rows, so a single full run costs under $0.25 — pricing is set for recurring/scheduled monitoring use cases (tracking removals and new approvals over time), not one-off bulk volume.

Notes

Public .gov data, no login required. This Actor does not imply any GSA endorsement — it independently republishes publicly available approval-list data for procurement/compliance research purposes.