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Federal Register Documents: Rules, Notices & Comment Dates

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Rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents from the official Federal Register API: filter by keyword, agency, CFR title, topic, docket, publication window, effective date or open comment window. Rows carry citation, dates, docket ids, abstract and text links.

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mode

Optional

documents searches the Federal Register itself: every rule, proposed rule, notice and presidential document back to 1994 (scanned issues to 1936), including the ones already scheduled for the next issues. publicInspection reads the filing desk instead — papers signed and filed by an agency that will be printed in the coming days; it is the earliest a document can be seen. agencies writes one row per agency with the slug you need for Agencies below. Filters in the sections below apply to documents; publicInspection accepts document types and a filing date, agencies accepts a name search.

Type:string

Default:documents

Options:

documentspublicInspectionagencies

Search words

searchTerm

Optional

Full-text search over the whole document, not only the title. Quote a phrase ("comment period") to keep the words together; several words without quotes are matched as a phrase-less query. In mode agencies this is a plain name filter (commission, bureau, energy). Empty = every document the other filters allow, newest first.

Type:string

Document types

documentTypes

Optional

Keep only these kinds of document. Empty = all four. The output field type carries the readable form (Rule, Proposed Rule, Notice, Presidential Document), subtype the finer label the source prints (for example Executive Order).

Type:string[]

Agencies

agencySlugs

Optional

Agency slugs, e.g. environmental-protection-agency, securities-and-exchange-commission, food-and-drug-administration, energy-department. Several slugs are combined with OR. A department slug also brings in its sub-agencies. Run mode agencies once for the full dictionary — the source answers an unknown slug with an error, so this actor checks your slugs first and names the closest match instead of returning an empty run.

Type:string[]

Kind of presidential document

presidentialDocumentTypes

Optional

Narrows presidential documents further. Use it with document type Presidential document; on its own it also works, because only presidential documents carry these labels. Executive orders come with executiveOrderNumber and signingDate filled.

Type:string[]

Subject areas

sections

Optional

The six subject areas the source itself sorts documents into. Broader than Topics and useful when you do not know which agency publishes what you look for.

Type:string[]

Topics

topics

Optional

Index terms as slugs: air-pollution-control, imports, reporting-and-recordkeeping-requirements, endangered-and-threatened-species. A slug is the printed topic lower-cased with hyphens instead of spaces — the topics field of any row shows the printed form. Several topics are combined with OR.

Type:string[]

Agency docket

docketId

Optional

One agency docket number, e.g. EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0317 or CMS-4217-NC, to follow a single rulemaking through its proposed rule, extensions and final rule. Exact match on the docket the agency prints.

Type:string

CFR title

cfrTitle

Optional

Keep documents that change this title of the Code of Federal Regulations (40 = environment, 21 = food and drugs, 17 = securities, 12 = banks, 14 = aeronautics). The way to watch the part of the code your compliance work touches.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:50

CFR part

cfrPart

Optional

A part inside the CFR title above, e.g. 52 with title 40, or 1308 with title 21. Needs CFR title to be set. Output field cfrCitations lists the citations of a document (40 CFR 52), cfrTitles the title numbers alone.

Type:string

Only economically significant documents

significantOnly

Optional

Keep documents the unified agenda marks as significant under Executive Order 12866 — the rules with a large economic or policy effect. The flag is set on a minority of documents, so combine it with a wide date window.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Published from

publishedFrom

Optional

YYYY-MM-DD, earliest publication date. Empty = no lower bound.

Type:string

Published to

publishedTo

Optional

YYYY-MM-DD, latest publication date. Documents already scheduled for the coming issues carry a future publication date, so leave this empty to see them.

Type:string

Published in the last N days

lookbackDays

Optional

Relative window for scheduled runs: 1 = today's issue, 7 = the last week. Documents scheduled for the coming issues are always included. Ignored when Published from is set.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:3650

Takes effect within N days

effectiveWithinDays

Optional

Keep documents whose effective date falls between today and N days from now — the deadline a company has to comply with. Only final rules and some notices carry an effective date; rows come with daysUntilEffective.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:3650

Only documents still open for comment

commentsOpenOnly

Optional

Keep documents whose comment period closes today or later, so nothing on the list is already past. Pair it with document type Proposed rule; rows come with commentsCloseOn, daysUntilCommentsClose and the comment link where the source has one.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Public inspection day

availableOn

Optional

YYYY-MM-DD, the filing desk of one day, for mode publicInspection only. Empty = the newest day that has filings: agencies file on business days, so a Sunday run returns Friday's desk and the row field inspectionIssueDate says which day it is.

Type:string

Only documents not seen before

onlyNew

Optional

Remember every document number in this actor's key-value store and write only the ones that were not there on the previous run. The first run writes what it finds, later runs write what appeared since — the cheap way to run a watch list on a schedule without paying twice for the same document.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Include the full document text

includeFullText

Optional

Add fullText (the plain-text version the source publishes) and fullTextChars to every row. This is one extra request per row, so keep Max rows small when you turn it on; the abstract, action line and date paragraph are in every row anyway, for free.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Cut the full text at N characters

fullTextMaxChars

Optional

Long rules run past a million characters. The text is cut at this length (fullTextTruncated says whether it was) to keep dataset rows and LLM prompts manageable.

Type:integer

Minimum:500

Maximum:200000

Default:20000

Sort rows by

sortBy

Optional

relevance needs Search words — without them the run falls back to newest and says so in the status message. executiveOrderNumber only orders presidential documents. Mode agencies is always sorted by name.

Type:string

Default:newest

Options:

newestoldestrelevanceexecutiveOrderNumber

Max rows

maxItems

Optional

Stop after this many rows. A busy weekday brings 100-400 documents, a year of one agency's rules a few hundred. The source serves at most 10 000 documents per query — narrow the dates or the agency to go deeper.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:5000

Default:50

Output fields

fields

Optional

Keep only these fields, in this order, e.g. ["documentNumber", "title", "commentsCloseOn", "url"]. Empty = every field the mode produces.

Type:string[]

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