Federal Register Scraper

Search Federal Register rules, proposed rules, notices, and presidential documents with agencies, dates, citations, and official links.

What you get

Create a structured feed of United States federal regulatory documents by topic, agency, type, and publication date. Each row preserves the identifiers and official links needed for compliance monitoring, policy research, comment-period tracking, and source-backed reporting.

Output fields

Field	Description
document_number	Official Federal Register document number
title	Published document title
type	Rule, proposed rule, notice, or presidential document
subtype	More specific document category when available
abstract	Published abstract
action	Agency action statement
dates	Published dates statement
publication_date	Publication date
effective_on	Effective date when supplied
comments_close_on	Public-comment deadline when supplied
citation	Federal Register citation
volume	Federal Register volume
start_page / end_page	Printed page range
agencies	Publishing agency names
agency_slugs	Agency identifiers used for filtering
docket_ids	Associated docket identifiers
regulation_id_numbers	Regulation Identifier Numbers
html_url	Official HTML document
pdf_url	Official PDF document
public_inspection_pdf_url	Public-inspection PDF when available
query	Search term used
source	Source name

Example output

{
  "document_number": "2026-13742",
  "title": "Request for Information on Artificial Intelligence",
  "type": "Notice",
  "publication_date": "2026-07-17",
  "comments_close_on": "2026-09-15",
  "citation": "91 FR 32514",
  "agencies": ["Department of Commerce"],
  "docket_ids": ["DOC-2026-0042"],
  "html_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/07/17/2026-13742",
  "query": "artificial intelligence"
}

Input parameters

Parameter	Required	Description
queries	No	Full-text search terms. Defaults to artificial intelligence.
documentTypes	No	Any combination of RULE, PRORULE, NOTICE, and PRESDOCU.
agencies	No	Agency slugs such as environmental-protection-agency.
publicationFrom	No	Earliest publication date in YYYY-MM-DD format.
publicationTo	No	Latest publication date in YYYY-MM-DD format.
sort	No	newest, oldest, or relevance. Defaults to newest.
maxResultsPerQuery	No	Maximum unique documents per search term. Defaults to 10.

Use cases

• Compliance teams: watch final and proposed rules for relevant obligations.
• Government-affairs teams: track agency activity and public-comment windows.
• Legal researchers: collect citations, dockets, dates, and source documents.
• Journalists and developers: build scheduled, topic-specific regulatory feeds.

Limitations

Not every document includes an abstract, effective date, comment deadline, docket, or public-inspection PDF. Documents may be corrected or withdrawn after publication. Treat the linked official document as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Compared to alternatives

Compared with crawlerbros/federal-register-scraper, this Actor accepts multiple search terms in one run and uses a low 10-result first-run default. Compared with foo121/federal-register-scraper, it includes presidential documents, public-inspection PDF links, printed page ranges, and multi-query deduplication at a lower base result price at publication. Check live Store pricing before a large run.

FAQ

Which document type should I choose?

Use RULE for final rules, PRORULE for proposed rules, NOTICE for agency notices, and PRESDOCU for presidential documents. Leave the field empty to include all types.

How do I find an agency slug?

Open the agency page on federalregister.gov and use the final URL segment, such as securities-and-exchange-commission.

Can I create daily compliance alerts?

Yes. Save a narrow date-filtered input as an Apify Task and schedule it, then send new dataset rows to your alerting system.

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Last verified: 2026-07