Federal Register Scraper

Search and export the US Federal Register into clean JSON, CSV, Excel or XML. Pull final rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents in bulk — filtered by search term, document type, issuing agency and publication date — and get one structured row per document with its title, abstract, citation, docket numbers and direct links to the official HTML and PDF.

Built for compliance teams, legal researchers, policy analysts and data pipelines that need the daily journal of the US federal government as a structured dataset instead of clicking through the Federal Register website page by page.

What does the Federal Register Scraper do?

Enter a search term, optionally narrow by document type, agencies and a publication date range, and the actor paginates through the Federal Register and returns one clean row per document:

• Rules & proposed rules — track regulations as they are proposed and finalized.
• Notices — meetings, hearings, information collections and agency announcements.
• Presidential documents — executive orders, proclamations and determinations, with the signing president.

Every row includes the official htmlUrl and pdfUrl, the Federal Register citation, and any associated docketIds.

What data can you get?

Use cases

• Regulatory monitoring — watch a term or an agency and capture every new rule and notice on a schedule.
• Compliance & legal research — assemble a dated, citable record of rules affecting an industry.
• Policy analysis — build datasets of proposed vs. final rules across agencies and time.
• Executive action tracking — collect presidential documents with their citations and PDFs.
• Alerting & dashboards — feed structured document records into your own tools and reports.

How to use it

1. Add the Federal Register Scraper to your Apify account and open the input form.
2. Enter a Search term (e.g. artificial intelligence).
3. Optionally pick a Document type, add agency slugs, and set a publication date range.
4. Set Max items to cap the export, then Run.
5. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or pull it through the Apify API.

Input

{
  "term": "artificial intelligence",
  "documentType": "RULE",
  "agencies": ["environmental-protection-agency"],
  "publicationDateGte": "2026-01-01",
  "publicationDateLte": "2026-08-31",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Output

{
  "documentNumber": "2026-17843",
  "title": "Declaring a National Emergency To Secure the United States Bulk-Power System",
  "type": "Presidential Document",
  "abstract": null,
  "agencies": ["Executive Office of the President"],
  "publicationDate": "2026-08-31",
  "effectiveOn": null,
  "htmlUrl": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/31/2026-17843/declaring-a-national-emergency-to-secure-the-united-states-bulk-power-system",
  "pdfUrl": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-08-31/pdf/2026-17843.pdf",
  "citation": "91 FR 55995",
  "docketIds": [],
  "president": "Donald Trump"
}

FAQ

What is the Federal Register? The Federal Register is the official daily journal of the US federal government. It publishes proposed and final regulations, agency notices, and presidential documents such as executive orders and proclamations.

How do I find an agency slug? Use the agency's slug as it appears in Federal Register URLs — for example environmental-protection-agency or securities-and-exchange-commission. Leave the field empty to include every agency.

How many documents can I get? As many as your search returns. Use Max items to cap a run and keep it cheap; results come back newest first.

How does billing work? You pay only per document you get, so small, tightly filtered runs stay inexpensive.

What export formats are supported? JSON, CSV, Excel and XML, plus direct access via the Apify API.

Can I use this with n8n? Yes. Run the Federal Register Scraper from n8n with the Apify node — trigger a run, wait for it to finish, and read the dataset items straight into your workflow to drive compliance alerts, enrich records or update a database. It also works with Make, Zapier and the Apify API.

Can I connect this to other tools? The Federal Register Scraper connects with almost any cloud service or web app through integrations on the Apify platform — Make, Zapier, Slack, Google Drive and many more, plus webhooks to trigger an action whenever a run finishes.

Is this only public data? Yes. It returns only openly published US government documents from the Federal Register. You are responsible for compliant use.

Notes

Original clean-room implementation. Not affiliated with the Office of the Federal Register, the National Archives and Records Administration, or the US government. All document data is public record.

You pay only for what the run returns. Set a maximum cost per run and it stops cleanly at that limit.