Federal Register Scraper - US Rules & Regulations

Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the U.S. Office of the Federal Register or any government body. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The Federal Register is referenced only to describe the public data source this Actor collects from.

Search the US Federal Register and get clean rows for every document: final rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents - with title, abstract, agencies, publication and effective dates, public comment deadlines, CFR references, docket IDs, citation and PDF links. Filter by document type, agency and date. Built on the official API - no key, no browser.

What you get per document

Field	Meaning
documentNumber / title / citation	FR document number, title and Federal Register citation
documentType / documentTypeLabel	RULE, PRORULE, NOTICE or PRESDOCU (with a readable label)
abstract / action	Summary and the regulatory action
agencies / agencyCount	Issuing agencies
publicationDate / effectiveOn / commentsCloseOn	Key dates, incl. the public-comment deadline
cfrReferences / docketIds / regulationIdNumbers	Code of Federal Regulations parts, dockets, RINs
significant / president / signingDate	Significance flag; president & signing date (presidential docs)
htmlUrl / pdfUrl	Links to the official document

Input

{ "searchQueries": ["artificial intelligence"], "documentTypes": ["RULE"], "dateFrom": "2024-01-01" }

• Search terms - full-text search, one per line. Document numbers - exact lookups.
• Filters - document type, agency slugs (e.g. environmental-protection-agency), and a publication date range.
• Import from a file - paste a list, or link a public .txt/.csv, a Google Sheet/Drive link, or an Apify key-value-store record. Output fields trim every record.

Leave everything empty and the run returns a small free sample so you can see the shape first.

Reliability

Reads the official Federal Register API - public, keyless, no anti-bot, page-paginated for deep result sets. A search that returns nothing bills $0.

Honest limits

• Metadata, not the full rule text. You get the document record, abstract and links; follow htmlUrl/pdfUrl for the full text.
• commentsCloseOn is present only for documents with an open comment period (mostly proposed rules) - an honest null otherwise.
• cfrReferences / president / signingDate populate only where applicable by document type - presidential fields on presidential documents, CFR parts on rules.

Pricing

$0.001 per document on the FREE tier (tiered pricing lowers it with volume). Only documents actually saved are billed; an empty search costs nothing.

Output views

• Documents - title, type, agencies, publication date, comment deadline, citation and link.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

Available through the Apify MCP server - an agent can monitor new rules from an agency, track a rulemaking's comment deadline, or pull every AI-related regulation in a date range in one call.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready - AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 - an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server - no account, no API key.
• Skyfire - agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.

Automate & schedule

Run this Actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack:

• Apify API - start runs, fetch datasets and manage schedules over REST.
• apify-client for JavaScript and apify-client for Python - official SDKs.
• Schedules - run it hourly, daily or weekly and keep your dataset current.
• Webhooks - trigger downstream actions (CRM import, Slack alert, email sequence) the moment a run finishes.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/federal-register-scraper').call({
    "searchQueries": [
        "artificial intelligence"
    ],
    "maxItemsPerQuery": 25
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Got ${items.length} records`);

Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to thousands of apps - no code required:

• Make - multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier - push new records straight into your CRM or spreadsheet.
• Slack - get notified when a scheduled run finds something new.
• Google Drive / Sheets - auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
• Airbyte - pipe results into your data warehouse.
• GitHub - trigger runs from commits or releases.

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FAQ

How is this Actor billed? Pay-per-event: you pay only for the results it delivers, with no monthly rental and no start fee. The per-event price is shown on the Pricing tab.

Can I schedule it and get results automatically? Yes - create a Schedule and add a webhook or an integration (Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier) to push each run's dataset wherever you need it.

Which export formats are available? Every run's dataset can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, Excel (XLSX), XML, HTML or RSS from the Apify Console or the API.

Can I run it from code or an AI agent? Yes - through the Apify API and client libraries, or from Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants via the Apify MCP server.

Is it legal to scrape the Federal Register? This Actor collects publicly available data only. You are responsible for using the output in compliance with applicable laws (including data-protection law where personal data is involved) and the source's terms. See the Disclaimer below.

Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the U.S. Office of the Federal Register or any government body. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

The Federal Register is referenced only in a descriptive, nominative sense - to identify the public data source this Actor collects from. This Actor is not an official product or service of the U.S. Office of the Federal Register and is not authorised or certified by it. It collects only publicly available records; you are responsible for ensuring your use of that data complies with applicable laws, regulations and the source's own terms of use or reuse conditions.

Need help?

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab, or visit the Apify help center. Feature requests are welcome - this Actor is actively maintained.