Federal Register Scraper — US Rules, Notices & Executive Orders

Search the US Federal Register — the official daily journal of the federal government — and get clean, structured JSON back. Pull final rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents filtered by search term, document type, agency and date. Built for regulatory and compliance monitoring, policy and legal research, govtech, and AI/RAG pipelines that need authoritative regulatory text. You only pay for documents actually delivered.

Keywords: Federal Register API, regulations scraper, rulemaking data, compliance monitoring, executive orders, proposed rules, federal notices, regulatory intelligence, policy tracking.

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Why this actor

Every new federal regulation, proposed rule, agency notice and presidential document is published in the Federal Register. The official API is open and excellent, but driving it well means handling bracketed condition parameters, field selection and pagination. This actor wraps all of that and returns one clean record per document:

• Full-text search across the entire Federal Register.
• Type filtering — final rules, proposed rules, notices, presidential documents.
• Agency and date filtering — narrow to a regulator and a publication window.
• Clean, flat output — document number, type, title, abstract, action, agencies, publication and effective dates, docket IDs, citation, and direct HTML + PDF links.
• Fully open, no API key — official Federal Register API v1. No key, no login.

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What you can build with it

• Compliance monitoring — track new and proposed rules from the agencies that regulate your industry, the day they publish.
• Regulatory intelligence — feed a watchlist of terms and agencies into a daily run and never miss a rulemaking.
• Legal & policy research — assemble the complete documentary trail on a topic, with links to the official text.
• AI / RAG pipelines — ingest authoritative regulatory text and abstracts for grounded question-answering.
• Lobbying & public affairs — monitor dockets and comment periods as they open.

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
searchTerm	string	artificial intelligence	Full-text search. Empty = all.
documentTypes	string[]	["RULE","PRORULE"]	RULE, PRORULE (proposed), NOTICE, PRESDOCU. Empty = all.
agencySlugs	string[]	—	Agency slugs (e.g. environmental-protection-agency).
dateFrom / dateTo	string	—	Publication-date window YYYY-MM-DD.
maxResults	integer	100	Max documents, newest first.

Example input

{
  "searchTerm": "cryptocurrency",
  "documentTypes": ["RULE", "PRORULE"],
  "agencySlugs": ["securities-and-exchange-commission"],
  "dateFrom": "2025-01-01",
  "maxResults": 200
}

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Output

Each document is one dataset record:

{
  "document_number": "2026-11436",
  "type": "Proposed Rule",
  "title": "Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans",
  "abstract": "The EPA is proposing to approve...",
  "action": "Proposed rule.",
  "agencies": ["Environmental Protection Agency"],
  "publication_date": "2026-06-08",
  "effective_on": null,
  "docket_ids": ["EPA-R05-OAR-2025-0123"],
  "citation": "91 FR 12345",
  "president": null,
  "html_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/08/2026-11436/...",
  "pdf_url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-06-08/pdf/2026-11436.pdf",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-10T15:00:00.000Z"
}

A final {"_type": "summary"} record reports how many documents were returned and how many matched in total.

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Pricing

Your first 25 documents are free — every Apify account, no card, no trial clock. After that it is a flat $0.003 per document delivered.

• First 25 documents free per account (lifetime), then $0.003/document
• Zero charge on empty runs — a search that matches nothing costs you nothing
• No monthly minimum, no rental
• A run pulling 1,000 documents costs $3.00

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FAQ

Do I need an API key? No. The Federal Register API is fully open.

How current is it? Real-time — new documents appear as soon as they are published, every business day.

Can I monitor a regulator? Yes — set agencySlugs (and/or a search term), save it as a task, and schedule a daily run.

What document types are covered? Final rules, proposed rules, notices, and presidential documents (executive orders, proclamations, etc.).