# US Regulatory Change Digest (`weirworks/regulatory-change-digest`) Actor

New and upcoming US federal rules, proposed rules and notices from the official Federal Register: filter by agency, industry and keyword, with comment deadlines and effective dates.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/weirworks/regulatory-change-digest.md
- **Developed by:** [Weirworks](https://apify.com/weirworks) (community)
- **Categories:** News, AI
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 documents

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## US Regulatory Change Digest: Federal Register Rules, Comment Deadlines & Effective Dates

A daily or weekly feed of **new US federal rules, proposed rules and notices** from the official **Federal Register**, filtered to the agencies and industries you care about, with **comment deadlines, effective dates, dockets and RINs** on every row. Turn on **"only new since the last run"** and schedule it, and you get exactly what changed, nothing you've already seen.

Built for compliance officers at regulated companies (food, pharma, finance, energy, construction, transportation), compliance consultants, regulatory-affairs teams, law firms, trade associations and policy researchers.

### What it does

- **Industry presets:** pick an industry and it follows every agency that regulates it. 17 presets, for example *Food* (FDA, FSIS, AMS, APHIS), *Banking and lending* (CFPB, FDIC, OCC, Fed, NCUA, FinCEN, FHFA), *Construction and workplace safety* (OSHA, MSHA, EPA, HUD), *Transportation*, *Energy*, *Trade, customs and sanctions*, *Tax*.
- **Any agency:** add agencies by name ("Securities and Exchange Commission") or Federal Register slug.
- **Keywords:** full-text search ("PFAS", ""beneficial ownership"", "cybersecurity"), combined with your agencies.
- **Deadlines first:** `commentsCloseOn`, `daysUntilCommentDeadline`, `commentPeriodOpen` and `effectiveDate` on every document; keep **only open comment periods** with one switch.
- **Only what's new:** remembers what earlier runs returned (separately for each filter setup) and reports only new documents.
- **Tomorrow's documents today (optional):** includes documents already **on public inspection**, filed for the next day's issue (`status: "upcoming"`), and reports them again when they're published.
- **Significant rules only (optional):** rules flagged significant under Executive Order 12866.
- Final rules and proposed rules by default; notices and presidential documents (executive orders, proclamations) on request. Corrections are flagged.

### Input

```json
{
  "industries": ["food", "pharma-medical-devices"],
  "keywords": [],
  "documentTypes": ["RULE", "PRORULE"],
  "daysBack": 7,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "commentPeriodOpenOnly": false
}
```

**Weekly digest:** `daysBack: 7`, `onlyNew: true`, scheduled every Monday. **Daily alert:** `daysBack: 2`, `onlyNew: true`, scheduled every morning. **Comment tracker:** `commentPeriodOpenOnly: true`, `daysBack: 90`.

### Output

One row per document, newest first:

```json
{
  "status": "published",
  "documentNumber": "2026-21794",
  "documentType": "Proposed Rule",
  "title": "Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Modernization of FMVSS No. 108 To Accommodate ADS-Equipped Vehicles",
  "action": "Notice of proposed rulemaking.",
  "abstract": "NHTSA is proposing to amend Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 108...",
  "agencies": ["Transportation Department", "National Highway Traffic Safety Administration"],
  "industries": ["transportation"],
  "publicationDate": "2026-10-26",
  "effectiveDate": null,
  "commentsCloseOn": "2026-11-25",
  "commentPeriodOpen": true,
  "daysUntilCommentDeadline": 31,
  "docketIds": ["Docket No. NHTSA-2026-1519"],
  "regulationIdNumbers": ["2127-AM70"],
  "cfrReferences": ["49 CFR 571"],
  "topics": ["Motor vehicle safety", "Motor vehicles"],
  "significant": true,
  "isCorrection": false,
  "citation": "91 FR 67243",
  "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/26/2026-21794/...",
  "pdfUrl": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-10-26/pdf/2026-21794.pdf",
  "changeType": "new"
}
```

`changeType` appears in only-new mode: `new`, or `published` for an upcoming document that has now been published. Upcoming documents have no abstract or dates yet.

### Pricing

**$3 per 1,000 documents.** No start fee. A scheduled only-new run on a quiet day returns a handful of documents and costs almost nothing. Set **Maximum results** to cap a run.

### Good to know

- Data comes from the Federal Register API (federalregister.gov, published by the Office of the Federal Register and GPO). The Federal Register is the official daily publication of US federal rules; its contents are public domain.
- A typical week has about 400-600 documents across all agencies; a single industry is usually 10-100.
- This is an awareness feed, not legal advice: always read the official document before acting.

Questions: open an issue or email **hello@weirworks.com**.

*Independent tool by weirworks. Not affiliated with the Office of the Federal Register, GPO or any federal agency.*

# Actor input Schema

## `industries` (type: `array`):

Follow every agency that regulates these industries (combined with any agencies below). Leave empty with no agencies to get all agencies.

## `agencies` (type: `array`):

Federal Register agency names or slugs, e.g. "food-and-drug-administration" or "Securities and Exchange Commission" (the slug is in the agency page URL on federalregister.gov).

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Full-text search of the documents; each keyword is a separate search and results are combined. Put a phrase in quotes for an exact match, e.g. "PFAS" or ""beneficial ownership"". Combined with industries/agencies (must match both).

## `documentTypes` (type: `array`):

Which kinds of Federal Register documents to include.

## `daysBack` (type: `integer`):

Publication dates covered: today and the days before it (tomorrow's issue is included when it's already online). Use 1 for a daily digest, 7 for weekly.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Remember what earlier runs with the same filters returned and report only documents not seen before (and upcoming documents once they are published). Ideal for a scheduled daily or weekly digest.

## `commentPeriodOpenOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only documents you can still comment on (comment deadline today or later).

## `significantOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only documents marked significant under Executive Order 12866 (major economic or policy impact).

## `includeCorrections` (type: `boolean`):

Include correction notices to earlier documents (flagged isCorrection).

## `includeUpcoming` (type: `boolean`):

Also include documents filed for public inspection that publish in the next issue, matched by agency, type and title keywords (status "upcoming"; they have no abstract or dates yet).

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many documents (each is one charged result). Leave empty for no limit.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Not needed: the Federal Register API is public. Only set this if your network blocks it.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "industries": [
    "food"
  ],
  "agencies": [],
  "keywords": [],
  "documentTypes": [
    "RULE",
    "PRORULE"
  ],
  "daysBack": 7,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "commentPeriodOpenOnly": false,
  "significantOnly": false,
  "includeCorrections": true,
  "includeUpcoming": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

The dataset rows.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "industries": [
        "food"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("weirworks/regulatory-change-digest").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "industries": ["food"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("weirworks/regulatory-change-digest").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "industries": [
    "food"
  ]
}' |
apify call weirworks/regulatory-change-digest --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,weirworks/regulatory-change-digest"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Vb9NcAMZ7bTxm9HNi/builds/vtdKQYLfe6SirCnIW/openapi.json