Federal Register Search & Monitor - US Rules, Proposed Rules, Notices & Comment Deadlines

Search the U.S. Federal Register (every rule, proposed rule, notice and presidential document since 1994) through the official FederalRegister.gov API and get one clean JSON row per document: document number, title, type, action, abstract, agencies, publication date, effective date, comment deadline, docket IDs, RINs, CFR parts, significance flag, citation, and HTML / PDF / Regulations.gov links. No key, no scraping - 100 documents in under a second.

Who uses it

• Compliance & regulatory affairs (finance, pharma, energy, food, telecom): daily alert when your agencies publish new rules.
• Law firms & lobbyists / government relations: track proposed rules with open comment periods and dockets.
• Trade associations & consultants: weekly regulatory digests for members.
• Analysts, journalists & researchers: datasets of rules by agency, topic, significance and year.
• AI / automation: pipe new documents into Slack, email, Notion or an LLM summarizer via the Apify API.

Input

Field	Description
searchTerms	Full-text search; quotes for exact phrases. One search per line.
agencies	Names or slugs (e.g. Environmental Protection Agency, food-and-drug-administration).
documentTypes	Final rule, proposed rule, notice, presidential document.
publishedWithinDays / dateFrom / dateTo	Publication date filter.
significantOnly, openForCommentOnly	Significant (EO 12866) / comment period still open.
docketId, regulationIdNumber	Track one docket or RIN.
sortBy, maxItemsPerQuery	Order and volume (max 10,000 per search).

Default input (Store auto-test) = documents published in the last 7 days (max 25).

{ "searchTerms": ["\"artificial intelligence\""], "documentTypes": ["PRORULE"], "openForCommentOnly": true, "maxItemsPerQuery": 200 }

Output (one row per document)

{
  "documentNumber": "2026-21706", "title": "Implementing the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act ...",
  "type": "Rule", "action": "Final rule.", "abstract": "The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is issuing regulations ...",
  "agencies": ["Treasury Department", "Comptroller of the Currency"], "publicationDate": "2026-10-23",
  "effectiveOn": "2027-01-18", "commentsCloseOn": null, "openForComment": false,
  "docketIds": ["Docket ID OCC-2025-0372"], "regulationIdNumbers": ["1557-AF41"], "cfrReferences": ["12 CFR 3", "12 CFR 6"],
  "citation": "91 FR 67000", "pageLength": 195,
  "htmlUrl": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/23/2026-21706/...", "pdfUrl": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-10-23/pdf/2026-21706.pdf"
}

RUN_SUMMARY in the key-value store shows total matches per search and duration.

Pricing (pay per event)

• $0.001 per document saved (document-result) - 1,000 documents = $1.
• Tiny start fee per run (apify-actor-start). Failed searches are not charged. Set "Maximum cost per run" to cap spend.

Data source & license

• Data from the FederalRegister.gov API (Office of the Federal Register, National Archives / U.S. Government Publishing Office). Federal Register content is a U.S. government work and is not subject to copyright in the U.S.
• FederalRegister.gov is not the official legal edition - for legal citation use the official PDF linked in pdfUrl (govinfo.gov). Not affiliated with NARA/GPO. Not legal advice.