Federal Register Scraper: Rules, Notices & Executive Orders

Pull US federal regulations straight from the Federal Register: final rules, proposed rules, agency notices and executive orders, with agencies, effective dates, comment deadlines, docket IDs, RINs, CFR parts and links to the official PDF. $0.80 per 1,000 documents, no start fee.

It reads the official FederalRegister.gov API, so there is no browser, no proxy and no blocking: a default run returns 50 documents in a few seconds. Filters run on the API side, so you only pay for documents that match.

What you can do with it

• Regulatory monitoring and compliance alerts: schedule a daily run for your agencies (EPA, FDA, SEC, FAA...) or CFR parts and get every new rule and its effective date.
• Comment-period tracking: list proposed rules still open for public comment, with the closing date and the regulations.gov comment link.
• Tomorrow's documents today: public inspection mode returns documents filed for publication in the next business day(s), before they appear in the daily issue.
• Executive order tracking: every executive order, proclamation or memorandum with its number and signing date.
• Legal, policy and lobbying research: follow a docket or RIN across its whole history, or search the full text since 1994.
• AI and RAG pipelines: turn on full text to feed rules and notices to an LLM or search index.

How to use it

1. Pick filters: search terms, agencies, document types, a date range, or tick Open for comment only / Significant only. Or paste document numbers.
2. Set Max documents (default 50) and click Start.
3. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or call the actor from the API and schedule it.

Running with no input returns the last 30 days' final rules, newest first (50 documents).

Input

Field	What it does
mode	search (published documents) or publicInspection (documents being published next).
query	Full-text search, same syntax as the site's search box.
queries, maxItemsPerQuery	Several search terms in one run, each with the same filters; rows carry searchQuery, and a document found twice is returned once.
agencies	Names, abbreviations or slugs: EPA, DOL, Department of Energy, Food and Drug Administration, securities-and-exchange-commission.
documentTypes	RULE, PRORULE, NOTICE, PRESDOCU (default RULE; clear it for all types).
presidentialDocumentTypes	executive_order, proclamation, memorandum, ...
dateFrom / dateTo	Publication date range. Empty = last 30 days for a filter-only run.
effectiveFrom	Rules effective on or after a date.
significantOnly, commentsOpenOnly	EO 12866 significant documents; comment period still open.
docketId, regulationIdNumber, cfr	Follow a docket, a RIN, or a CFR title/part (40 CFR 60).
documentNumbers	Fetch exact documents (2026-20902); search filters are ignored.
sort	newest, oldest or relevance.
includeFullText	Adds the plain full text (one extra request per document, up to 1,000 per run).
maxItems	Hard cap on results and cost (max 10,000).

Example: proposed EPA rules still open for comment

{ "agencies": ["EPA"], "documentTypes": ["PRORULE"], "commentsOpenOnly": true, "maxItems": 100 }

Example: three topics across all agencies since July, 100 documents each

{ "queries": ["artificial intelligence", "PFAS", "tariff"], "documentTypes": [], "dateFrom": "2026-07-01", "maxItemsPerQuery": 100, "maxItems": 300 }

Example: every executive order this year

{ "presidentialDocumentTypes": ["executive_order"], "dateFrom": "2026-01-01", "maxItems": 500 }

Output

One item per document:

{
  "documentNumber": "2026-19774",
  "title": "National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Gasoline Distribution Facilities and Standards of Performance for Bulk Gasoline Terminals Reconsideration",
  "type": "Proposed Rule",
  "action": "Proposed rule; reconsideration of final rule.",
  "abstract": "On May 8, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published ...",
  "agencyNames": ["Environmental Protection Agency"],
  "agencySlugs": ["environmental-protection-agency"],
  "publicationDate": "2026-09-28",
  "effectiveOn": null,
  "commentsCloseOn": "2026-11-12",
  "docketIds": ["EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0302", "FRL-8202.1-01-OAR"],
  "regulationIdNumbers": ["2060-AW66"],
  "cfrReferences": ["40 CFR 60", "40 CFR 63"],
  "significant": false,
  "executiveOrderNumber": null,
  "citation": "91 FR 61175",
  "htmlUrl": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/28/2026-19774/national-emission-standards-for-hazardous-air-pollutants-for-gasoline-distribution-facilities-and",
  "pdfUrl": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-09-28/pdf/2026-19774.pdf",
  "commentUrl": "http://www.regulations.gov/commenton/EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0302-0001",
  "source": "Source: FederalRegister.gov API (Office of the Federal Register / GPO). ..."
}

Also included: subtype, signingDate, dates, topics, startPage/endPage/pageLength, volume, presidentialDocumentNumber, proclamationNumber, correctionOf, publicInspectionPdfUrl, fullTextXmlUrl, rawTextUrl, regulationsGovUrl, apiUrl, and fullText when requested. Public inspection rows add filedAt, filingType and editorialNote, and have no abstract or page numbers yet. Fields a document does not have are null.

Pricing

Pay per document returned: $0.80 per 1,000 documents (document-scraped), no start fee. Filters and Max documents apply before you are charged, and document numbers that are not found are not charged. A run that finds nothing fails instead of returning an empty dataset.

Limits and notes

• The API returns at most 10,000 results per search. For bigger pulls, split by date range (e.g. one run per month).
• Full-text search covers documents from 1994 on, the range FederalRegister.gov covers.
• Public inspection mode returns what is on the public inspection desk at run time; it changes during each business day.
• Legal status: FederalRegister.gov is not an official legal edition of the Federal Register and does not replace the official print or electronic edition on GPO's govinfo.gov. Every row includes pdfUrl, the official govinfo.gov PDF; verify against it for legal research.
• Federal Register content is a US government work in the public domain. Each row carries a source note crediting the Office of the Federal Register.
• This actor uses only the public FederalRegister.gov developer API, which the site designates for programmatic access. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Office of the Federal Register, the National Archives, or the Government Publishing Office.